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Texas Marker: Sweeney, Coombs & Fredericks Building - Downtown Houston


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SWEENEY, COOMBS &
FREDERICKS BUILDING

THIS LATE-VICTORIAN COMMERCIAL BUILDING WITH A 3-STORY CORNER TURRET AND EASTLAKE DECORATIVE ELEMENTS WAS DESIGNED BY GEORGE E. DICKEY IN 1889. EVIDENCE INDICATES THAT THE 1889 CONSTRUCTION MAY HAVE BEEN A RENOVATION OF AN 1861 STRUCTURE BUILT BY WILLIAM VAN ALSTYNE AND PURCHASED IN 1882 BY JOHN JASPER SWEENEY AND EDWARD L. COOMBS.  GUS FREDERICKS JOINED THE SWEENEY AND COOMBS JEWELRY FIRM BEFORE 1889.

RECORDED TEXÀS HISTORiC LANDMARK - 1974

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