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Marine Building – Houston

1305 Prairie St. – Houston TX (built 1920; also Advertising Arts Building)

This site was home to Sidney Westheimer Undertakers in the 1920s (previously across Caroline St. at the Westheimer Building) and also his Oak Lawn Dairy offices. In the 1940s and 1950s it was the Advertising Arts Building, housing typesetters, photo engravers, and also the Pioneer Tire and Rubber Co.

 

Marine Building - Houston TX

 

1920s Sanborn map

1301-1305 Prairie St. - Houston TX