Category Archives: 1910s

Sour Lake Remedy Co.

Posted in: 1900s, 1910s, Advertisements/Articles, Ephemera, TX - Houston

Houston TX (c. 1900-1912; also Sour Lake Chemical Co.)    

Westheimer Building

Posted in: 1910s, Advertisements/Articles, Commercial/Office/Retail, Ephemera, Extant, Maps, TX - Houston

1217 Prairie St. – Houston TX (built 1913; currently the Continental Center)   Sidney Westheimer Co. Undertakers moved to their newly built building on the northwest corner of Prairie and Caroline around 1913 and by 1920 they moved another block east to the Marine Building. During the early years of the building, the fourth floor (named … Continue reading →

Republic Building

Posted in: 1910s, Commercial/Office/Retail, Extant, TX - Houston

1018 Preston St. – Houston TX (built 1907; architects: Sanguinet & Staats; originally the Paul Building) Another designed by Sanguinet & Staats (of the nearby Carter Building)  

Kress Building – Houston

Posted in: 1910s, Commercial/Office/Retail, Extant, TX - Houston

705 Main St. – Houston TX (built 1913)  

Carter Building

Posted in: 1910s, 1920s, Commercial/Office/Retail, Ephemera, Extant, Hotel/Motel, Postcards, TX - Houston

806 Main St. – Houston TX (built 1910/1925; architect: Sanguinet & Staats; also Second National Bank building, South Coast Life Insurance building; First National Life Insurance Co. building; 806 Main building)   Locally known as Carter’s Folly because its 16-story height was thought of as unsafe at the time, it got a 6-story extension in … Continue reading →

Beatty-West Building

Posted in: 1910s, Advertisements/Articles, Commercial/Office/Retail, Demolished, Ephemera, TX - Houston

817 Main St. – Houston TX (built 1911; demolished 12/2007; architect Henry C. Cooke) Demolished with the entire city block (Montagu Hotel, Bond Department Store) except the Stowers Building   1914                      

De George Hotel

Posted in: 1910s, Advertisements/Articles, Ephemera, Extant, Hotel/Motel, Residential, Residential - Apartments, TX - Houston

1418 Preston St. – Houston TX (built 1913; currently De George at Union Station, housing for homeless veterans)   Michele De George built this as well as the Auditorium (Lancaster) Hotel   1932

Peden Iron and Steel

Posted in: 1910s, Advertisements/Articles, Commercial/Office/Retail, Demolished, Ephemera, TX - Houston

700 N. San Jacinto St. (formerly Willlow St.) – Houston TX (built 1905; demolished 2010/2011 – architect C.H. Page and Co.)     1907   1924   1926 1932

The Strand – Houston (c. 1917-1940)

Posted in: 1910s, 1920s, Ephemera, Extant, Maps, TX - Houston

Houston’s own “Strand,” located in the Central Park neighborhood ”between Houston and her harbor,” was a short-lived named street just south of Buffalo Bayou. In the late 1930s or early 1940s the street name was changed to Ave. W following the existing north-south lettering. It was only a little more than three blocks long from Terminal … Continue reading →

Hogan-Allnoch Dry Goods

Posted in: 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, Advertisements/Articles, Commercial/Office/Retail, Endangered, Ephemera, Extant, TX - Houston

1311 Texas Ave. – Houston TX (built 1923; currently vacant)     1932 Houston City Book:   Previous location at 520 Preston St. - 1914 Houston City Book: