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 the early 1920s. By the late 1960s it was “modernized” with the addition of a marble and glass striped facade but in 2013, with a renovation in to a hotel, the facade is being removed with the building restored to its original look.