810 Sampson St. – Houston TX (built 1912)

 

Hugh H. Waddell was originally a clerk at Ludwick (Ludovic) J. Latham’s Furniture in the 1870s before opening his own furniture business around 1880. He was also a local agent for Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machines out of New Orleans. Waddell built his $10,000 four-story factory and warehouse along the Gulf, Colorado, and Santa Fe Railway, just east of downtown Houston, in 1912. In the 1920s the building also housed the Joske’s of Houston furniture storage.