1110 Main St. – Houston TX (built 1947; demolished September 2013; architect: Kenneth Franzheim; also Macy’s (2006-2013))

 

From the Houston Architectural Guide:

 

When Federated Department Stores opened Foley’s in 1947, it was the building of the hour, the model of the postwar, downtown American department store. Who would have guessed that it was to be the last of its kind? The store’s major innovations were total environmental control (therefore, no windows except the ground-floor display windows), interiors by Raymond Loewy and William T. Snaith that stylishly rationalized the distribution of goods and customers, and the 5-story parking garage at Lamar and Travis, connected to the store by an underground tunnel.

 

Franzheim’s office detailed the exteriors of the building (which it expanded from 6 to 10 stories in 1957) with great assurance. The Main Street front, divided vertically into inset panels of orange Kasota stone studded with exposed aluminum bolts, appears neither blank nor busy.