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Houston Skyline from the East - About 1941

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1. Humble Building, 916 Dallas @ Main, (renovated 2003 to Courtyard Marriott), 9 floors, 1921 (extant) LINK Main at Dallas; LINK Main at Polk North;
2. Lamar Hotel, 1000 Main @ Lamar, 16 floors, 1926 (demolished 4/14/85) LINK Main at Lamar - 1940's;
3. National Standard Building, 1000-1022 Main @ McKinney, 8 floors, 1927 (demolished 4/14/1985) LINK Main at Lamar - 1940's;
4. Commerce Building, 914 Main @ Walker, 24 floors, 1929 (extant) LINK Main at Lamar - 1940's;
5. Mellie Esperson Building, 815 Walker @ Travis, 19 floors, 1941 (extant);
6. Niels Esperson Building, 808 Travis @ Rusk, 32 floors, 1927 (extant);
7. Gulf Building, 712 Main @ Rusk, 36 floors, 1929 (extant);
8. Texas State Hotel, 720 Fannin @ Rusk, 16 floors, 1925 (now Club Quarters Hotel);
9. Medical Arts Building, 1215 Walker, 16 floors, 1926 (demolished 1987);
10. Sterling Building (Texas Tower), 608 Fannin @ Texas (1016 Texas), 21 floors, 1931 (demolished May 2014);
11. Post-Dispatch Building, 1100 Texas @ Fannin, 22 floors 1926 (now Magnolia Hotel);
12. Petroleum Building (Great Southwest Building), 1312-20 Texas, 21 floors, 1927 (renovated 2019 into Cambria Hotel, Houston downtown Convention Center);
13. Anderson Clayton Building (Cotton exchange), 1320 Prairie @ Caroline, 16 floors, 1924 (now Harris County Courthouse Annex 44);
14. Harris County Courthouse, 301 Fannin, 5 floors, 1910 (now Harris County Annex 51);
15. Beth Israel Synagogue, 1015 Crawford, 1908 (1923 reordinated to New Day Temple for Christian worship, demolished 1971);
16. Cotton Hotel (later Montague Hotel), 804 Fannin @ Rusk, 11 floors, 1913 (imploded 20 January 2008);
17. Stowers Furniture, 820 Fannin, 10 floors, 1913 (now Aloft Hotel);
18. The Rossonian, 911-919 Fannin, 7 floors, 1910 (Ambassador Hotel after 1942, demolished about 1953);
19. Kirby Building, 917 Main between Walker and Rusk, 11 floors, 1926 (renovated 2004)
20. Carter Building (Second National Bank), 806 Main @ Rusk, 23 floors, 1910-1920's (renovated 2012-14 into JW Mariott Houston);
21. Electric Building (Houston Lighting and Power) 1012-1020 Walker @ Fannin, 10 floors 1923 (demolished after Electric Tower was built at 611 Walker in 1968);
22. Rice Hotel, 909 Texas @ Main, 17 floors, opened 1913, 3rd wing added in 1925, 18th floor added 1951; Old Hotel Rice 1883-1911;
23. Texaco Building, 720 San Jacinto @ Rusk, 13 floors, 1915 (3 bays added in 1936 along San Jacinto Street)(extant);
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