Category: Ephemera
Bender Hotel/San Jacinto Building – Houston
814 Main St. – Houston TX (built 1909; remodeled 1950; demolished August 2005)
Texas State Hotel – Houston
720 Fannin St. – Houston TX (built 1929; architect: Joseph Finger; Currently Club Quarters Hotel)
Posted in 1910s Advertisements/Articles Commercial/Office/Retail Endangered Ephemera Extant Objects TX - Greater Houston
Waddell’s Furniture Warehouse
810 Sampson St. – Houston TX (built 1912)
Posted in 1940s Advertisements/Articles Commercial/Office/Retail Ephemera Extant TX - Greater Houston
Carroll Printing Co.
2907 Canal St. – Houston TX (built 1940)
Posted in 1950s Advertisements/Articles Commercial/Office/Retail Ephemera Extant TX - Greater Houston
Texas Employers’ Insurance Association Building
2500 Fannin St. – Houston TX (built 1950; architects: Woestemeyer & Gaffney; also Wilson, Cribbs & Goren, P.C.) From Houston Magazine,…
Posted in 1950s Advertisements/Articles Ephemera Extant Matchbooks Restaurant/Bar TX - Greater Houston
Thornhill’s Cafeterias – Houston
various locations
Posted in 1950s Advertisements/Articles Commercial/Office/Retail Ephemera Extant TX - Greater Houston
Elbert E. Adkins Insurance Co.
2401 Fannin St. – Houston TX (built 1951; architect Milton McGinty) Intact building but missing the diagonal corrulux window…
Posted in 1950s 1960s Advertisements/Articles Bank Commercial/Office/Retail Ephemera Extant TX - Greater Houston
Central Square/Century Building – Houston
2100 Travis St. – Houston TX (built 1956/1964)
Posted in 1940s Advertisements/Articles Commercial/Office/Retail Ephemera Extant TX - Greater Houston
Falstaff Distributing Co. – Houston
908 Live Oak St. – Houston TX (built 1948)