4916 Main St. – Houston TX (built 1949; architect: MacKie & Kamrath)
Category Archives: 1940s
Pappas Bros. Cleaners
5602 Canal St. – Houston TX (built late 1940s; also G.H. Benavides Real Estate, Iglesia de Dios Pentecostal)
National Biscuit Co.
5601 Canal St. – Houston TX (built 1940; also Duddy’s of Texas; currently vacant)
1306 Rio Grande St. – Austin
Built 1945
Wellworth Dry Goods
7705 Harrisburg Blvd. – Houston TX (built 1948; also Rios Tire Service, A&B Auto Repair) Another Wellworth’s in Houston was located at the current Wolf’s Department Store on Dowling: http://arch-ive.org/archive/wolfs/
Jax Beer Co. of Houston
Jax Beer Distribution at 1111 Live Oak St. – Houston TX (built 1946; also Ocean Harvest Wholesale, Inc.)
Wald Transfer & Storage Co.
812-820 / 908 Live Oak St. – Houston TX (built 1940/1953; currently Master Mattress Works and Creative Office Furniture) Wald Transfer & Storage Company’s original building was constructed in 1940 on Live Oak St. at McKinney and in 1953 expanded up Live Oak across Walker St. with the building that still holds its large … Continue reading →
Freeport Drug Store
101 W. Broad St. – Freeport TX (built ~1945; currently vacant)
Brochstein’s Inc.
11530 Main St. – Houston TX (built 1940/1947; architects I.S. Brochstein and Lenard Gabert)
Kurth Building
5015 Fannin St. – Houston TX (built 1940; also Oil Industrial Building, The Nehemiah Center)
