3402 Fannin St. – Houston TX (built 1911)

 

Frank C. Bering, Secretary and Treasurer of Bering Manufacturing Co., built his home in 1911 and lived there until his death in 1936. It then became the Samaritan Sanitarium (institutional care for alcoholic patients) and then by the early 1960s, Scheer & Co. gift shop. It is currently part of Trinity Episcopal Church.

 

Bering Dr., which runs north/south between Woodway and Westheimer streets, was named after his family’s company which is still in business today.

 

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