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Texas at Crawford

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​1930: This view shows three of the buildings designed by prolific Austrian immigrant Joseph Finger (1887-1953) noted for having brought modern architecture to Texas. Some of his other buildings include: Cheek-Neal Coffee Co. (1917); Temple Beth Israel (1924); Citizens State Bank (1925, now Rockefeller Hall); Auditorium Hotel (1926); Texas State Hotel (1929, now Club Quarters Hotel); Plaza Hotel (1929); Byrd's Department Store (1934, now home of Local Foods 420 Main); Beth Israel Mausoleum (1935); Jefferson Davis Hospital (1936-1999); Clark & Courts (1936, now Tribeca Lofts); Houston Airport Terminal (1939); Houston City Hall (1939). 1. 1514 Texas: Five Brothers Cafe / 1516 Texas: Garland Hotel; 2. 808 Travis: Niels Esperson Building, 32 floors, 1927; 3. 712 Main: Art Deco Gulf Building, 36 floors, 1929; 4. 1312-20 Texas: Petroleum Building, 21 floors, 1927;  5. 1116-20 Texas: United Gas Building, 10 floors, 1922 (Joseph Finger); 6. 601-09 Fannin: Post Dispatch Building, 22 floors, 1926#;  7. 909 Texas: Rice Hotel, 17 floors (in 1930), 1912;  8. 1423 Texas: William Penn Hotel, 1925* (Joseph Finger); 1975 Cenikor, demol 2006; 9. 1521 Texas: Ben Milam Hotel, 1926* (Joseph Finger)

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26 March 2011: 1. 1520 Texas: Houston World Trade Center Building, 12 floors, 1962 (now The Westin Houston Downtown); 2. 712 Main: Gulf Building, 36 floors, 1929; ​3. 711 Louisiana: Pennzoil Place II, 36 floors, 1975; 4. 1314 Texas: Great Southwest Building renovated 2019 to Cambria Hotel Houston downtown Convention Center, 21 floors, 1927;5. 1120 Texas: Keystone Lofts renovated United Gas Building, rental apartments, 10 floors, 1922;  6. 1200 Texas:[White Building] Federal Detention Center, 11 floors, 1999; 7. 1100 Texas: Post-Dispatch Building renovated to Magnolia Hotel (Post-Dispatch Building, Shell Building), 22 floors 1926;8. 600 Travis: JP Morgan Center (Texas Commerce), 75 floors, 1982; 9. 909 Texas: Just a sliver of the Rice Hotel is visible here, 18 floors, 1912; 10. 717 Texas: Calpine Center, 34 floors, 2003; 11. 1515 Texas: Ben Milam Hotel (imploded 2012 to make room for Ballpark Apartments at 500 Crawford, a 7 floor residential apartment complex completed 2016). 

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