1217 Prairie St. – Houston TX (built 1913; currently the Continental Center)

 

Sidney Westheimer Co. Undertakers moved to their newly built building on the northwest corner of Prairie and Caroline around 1913 and by 1920 they moved another block east to the Marine Building. During the early years of the building, the fourth floor (named Westheimer Hall) served as a meeting place for several unions and associations such as the Typographical Union #87, Wood Wire & Metal Lathers International Union Houston Local #224, and the Sharks Benevolent Club.

 

By the early 1930s, after Westheimer Undertakers moved, it became the Foreman Building and then by the 1970s the McFadden Building (named for the McFadden brothers who had their cotton exporting business office there).

 

Sidney Westheimer was the nephew of the Houston road’s namesake Mitchell Louis Westheimer, a flour mill owner and hay merchant (his plantation was at the location of present-day Lamar High School).

 

 

c. 1913

 

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1926: