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    The T.W. House Bank Building also housed the Merchants National Bank. From the newspaper The Jewish Herald dated May 6, 1909: Do you work for money? Let some it work for you. It will pay you a salary. We pay you 4 per cent compounded semi-annual on time and savings deposits. Your business respectfully solicited. Why Not Open a checking account? Merchants National Bank Congress and Main / Houston, Texas Capital and Surplus $400,000.00 Officers: C.G. Pillot, President T.C. Dunn, Vice President J.T. McCarthy, Cashier Randon Porter, Ass't Cashier Here's the T.W. House Bank Building showing the Merchants National Bank signage near the front entrance.
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    woah! This building from the 1870s is just stunning! The carvings/detail of the facade! Edit: The building was designed by Eugene T. Heiner! I'm not exactly sure of the "41 Main" address. This was probably renamed somewhere in the early 1900s to something like "401 Main". Looks like the T.W. House Bank was founded in 1838, and a significant date is 1889. From the newspaper Houston Daily Mercury dated January 20, 1874: T.W. House, Banker, No. 41 Main Street, Houston, - - Texas, Dealer in Foreign & Domestic Exchange. Exchange On London, Hamburg, Liverpool, New York, New Orleans, And other Cities, for sale n sums to suit. Deposits received, and a General Banking Business done in all its branches. Special attention will be given to Collections n this and all accessible points. T.W. House Bank Building photos.
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    Found this cool, 1969, club advertisement and wanted to share. Did anyone ever go here? Any memories or photos? ** Houston's Newest Fun Spot ** The Riverboat 7025 South Main . . . . MO 5-9159 Open 4 P.M. to 4:00 A.M. every night ** Arnett Cobb and the Mob ** Featuring The Riverboat Girls Dance 'Till Midnight Show from 12:30 A.M. * After Hours
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    The Post Oak School in Bellaire was built in 1985. Here's a newspaper article about it from the newspaper The Texan dated March 13, 1985. School construction starts A new school facility is going up in Bellaire. Construction began last week on a $4.5 million school building for the Post Oak School (formerly Post Oak Montessori School) across the street from there present location at 6300 Ave. B and Bissonnet Road. The new 32,000 square-foot school facility will sit on 3-1/2 acres located on the north-west corner of the intersection of Avenue B and Bissonnet Road. Completion of the facility is scheduled for the January 1986, said acting director Patty Thompson. The school will have the capacity for 400 students, which is approximately double the current enrollment of the school. The school site will include a two-story administration building, approximately nine classrooms, and will feature a training center for the Texas Montessori Institute which trains educators to teach the Montessori methods-- Model of the school:
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    Weirdly enough, I've never seen the (2nd) original The Post Oak School talked about on HAIF. Thought I would create a thread. Did anyone ever go to this school? That block has a historical location! The school campus next door, Episcopal High School, is one of the most expensive schools in Houston! I know of 3 different The Post Oak Schools 1 - The original on Westheimer & Post Oak in the early 1900s. 2 - 4600 Bissonnet Street in Bellaire. 3 - Their new high school, located at 1010 Autrey Street in Montrose. https://www.postoakschool.org/
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    Found the address and building photo! The address (not in the photo) is 1002 Main Street. Apparently, that is. I don't have a map (currently) that verifies it. So amazing. Great find here! Jesse H. Jones Lumber Company Wholesale and Retail Dealers Main Street & McKinney Avenue Phones Preston 24 / Preston 740 Long Leaf Yellow Pine. Devoe Lead & Zinc. Paints & Interior Finish.
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    There has been some discussion regarding the (current) TMC laundry facilities down Fannin Street. Saw this social media post this week. Just amazing volumes of laundry! Couldn't even imagine. During the pandemic, volume dropped steeply at the Texas Medical enter Hospital Laundry Co-Op in Houston. TMCHL is now performing above pre-pandemic levels, packing and shipping over 800,000 lbs. of laundry a week--
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    Phase 1 of Meyerland Crossing has started!! I could move this to Going Up! since there's a 4-story MF wrap planned. Still on the front page of CRP, might be one of their most anticipated projects? What about the last parcel? Did CRP buy the whole 17-acres? Developer's website: https://www.capitalretailproperties.com/properties/id1542 Construction update from last week:
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    Never seen this on HAIF. Very cool! It looks like the Stewart Building was the building that housed the Hermann Hospital estate in the 1920’s. The estate was responsible for the business and funding aspect of running the hospital. According to a notation on the back, the estate was on the top floor and the building was later sold to Gordon Jewelry, at which point the estate moved to the Hermann Professional Building. Amazing building! The attention to detail, the "S" carvings! Ground Floor Stewart Building Stewart Abstract & Title Co. John B. Stewart - Pres. A.A. Brush. Secy. & Manager. Capital $75,000.000 Phone Preston 4224 Building name: Stewart The "S" and other ornaments. Amazing!!
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    Some real history here! The St. Joseph's County Hospital burned down in 1894. This is the story. From the book The Episcopacy of Nicholas Gallagher, Bishop of Galveston, 1882–1918. Catholic Building for had been used by the Franciscan priests when they staffed St. Vincent's Parish, by Ursuline Sisters fro New Orleans when they staffed St. Vincent's School (1867-1869), and by these Sisters when they likewise staffed the same school (1869-1873.) The Sisters of the Incarnate Word and Blessed Sacrament from Victoria had temporarily lived there before moving to Incarnate Word Academy on Crawford Street (April-November, 1873.) St. Joseph's Infirmary was opened to the public on June 1, 1887. Two years later the medical officer for the indigent sick was impressed with the methods of caring for the sick. After the county judge toured the hospital, Mother St. Louis was requested to receive the indigent sick of Harris County. There was quite a bit of dissatisfaction with the old Houston Infirmary on Washington Avenue. Mother St. Luis agreed. The sisters soon expanded their facilities. A new three-story building, St. Joseph's County Hospital, was erected across the street. The sisters were paid 50 cents a day for indigent patients. Private patients paid two dollars a day. The diagnosis of patients with smallpox led to the construction of a smallpox hospital in an abandoned cemetery. There were three hundred victims of smallpox. Approximately sixty died. All of the Sisters volunteered to help at the “pest house.” Four from the growing staff of Sisters were chosen. Unfortunately, Mrs. Flanagan's Boarding House next to the hospital caught fire (October 16, 1894.) Before long, the entire block was in flames. This was no match for the one fire engine the city owned. Two Sisters lost their lives, and a third was seriously wounded, though she survived. This was devastation to the Sisters. In addition to the-- Photo of the hospital that burned down:
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    woah! Has anyone seem this amazing house on historic aerials or Google earth? Shame it was knocked down. From the neighborhood newsletter called The Old Braeswood News dated Summer 2010. The home would have been built in the 1950s, I believe 1954 to be exact. Short paragraph from the article detailing the 1954 home: Issac and Mildred, his wife, often visited friends in Old Braeswood, and lingered at the park with their sons, Branard and Raymond. In 1947, Ike bought a triple lot that spanned the back of the park, but did not build on it until 1951, about when Ray was entering Rice University as an undergraduate in architecture. Rice didn't have dorm capacity for students from Houston, and Ray moved into the house with his parents [Three years later, Ike's brother Samuel built a house at 2355 Kelving, the peninsular site bounded by Kelving and Glenn Haven. That site is now an empty lot.] 2004: 2023, present day:
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    This week, I discovered a 1963 club on South Main Street called Golden Horseshoe Club. Golden Horseshoe Club Your Hosts * Edie Knight * Dee Windel * Bob Marshal Houston's newest and most exciting after hours club - 8:30 P.M. to 3:00 A.M. Featuring George Berry Trio 8330 South Main (opposite Colt Stadium in Surrey House Motel) MO 79261
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    Found the address! It wasn't exactly Holcombe & Main. It was by the present-day Levit Green campus and TMC Innovation Factory! * Show Biz Restaurant * For dancing and after hours Music Dancing 9 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. - Open 7 days a week Don Wilkerson Quintet Coming back Nov. 18th The Fabulous Bobby Doyle Three direct from Las Vegas 2410 W. Holcombe – Six blocks west of the Shamrock Hotel – MO 5-8007
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    wow! I had no idea this was here! I thought there was a K&L clinic a long the side of Fannin Street? The information was found on the 1955 Sanborn Map and the Texas State Journal of Medicine, Volume 51, Number 7, July 1955. The clinic looks to have been on the opposite side of the South Main Shopping Center, across from the Medical Towers. Kelsey & Leary Clinic 6611 Travis / Houston, Texas / JU 0628 M.P. Kelsey, M.D., Internal Medicine, Endocrine Diseases W.V. Leary, M.D., Internal Medicine; Chest Diseases. Bronchoscopy, Esophagoscopy, Gastroscopy J.R. Kelsey, M.D. Internal Medicine; Gastroenterology Earl F. Beard, M.D., Internal Medicine; Cardiology, Cardiac Catheterization Consultants C.C. Shullenberger, M.D., Internal Medicine; Hematology Albert Owers, M.D., Psychiatry Luther M. Vaughn, M.D. Radiology W.C. Owsley, M.D., Radiology Sanborn map, and the closeup.
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    From the newspaper The Houston Daily Post dated January 10, 1902. Alcomo Sanitarium. An ethical institution for the scientific treatment of the Drug and Liquor Habits . . . Endorsed by the regular medical profession at home and abroad. Special Accommodations for Lady Patients. Address all communications to Dr. Edgar T. Cook, Physician in charge. Corner Austn and McKinney, Houston, Texas. April 13, 1902, specifying the address. Alcomo Sanitarium- Alcohol, opium, morphine, and other kindred habits treated. Strictly private, with special facilities for lady patients. Cure guaranteed in from ten to twenty days. Competent physicians, nurses, etc., in constant attendance. Removed from business center and consequent temptations. Address Alcomo Sanitarium, 3317 Austin Street, Houston, Texas.
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    Road In Between South Main Street & Old Main Street Road. A decade before Speer Park on Speer Drive, there was a long road connecting South Main Street to Old Main Street Road. Here's the unknown road dating back to 1944. Any ideas on what this road was called? It's one street after present-day McNee Road. The road hits the corner of the Main Street Auto Speedway. Here's the road surrounded by the present-day streets. The road crosses Kirby Drive. Edit: A decade after this, in the 1950s, there was an amusement park called Speer Park located off of South Main on Speer Drive. The road aligns with the unknown road. Seems like the road was abandoned by the city and then remade to Speer Drive? Speer Drive did not go all the way through to connect to Old Main Street Road. It stopped about half way.
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    Friend is getting her Masters here. As you can tell, nobody really talks about this (building) and school. Does anyone have experience with the school, and staff, here? I asked why she didn't go to Anderson's Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. She said it was too expensive. Seems like it would be expensive indeed! I wonder if the TWU Houston campus would ever expand? They used to have several buildings near Methodist's campus but all that's left is this new building built 19 years ago.
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    The roads of TMC Helix Park are now open and operational! Fencing around the site now has been removed! I took a walk around the campus to check things out and wow!! The TMC3 campus was designed so well. Very impressive!! I believe further construction development has been placed on hold. Trailers being wrapped and removed from the site. Seems like they are fencing the remaining parcels and coming to a stop. Trailer wrapped, ready for removal: One Dynamic Way from the lawns of TMC Helix Park: Up close: Collaborative Building: Front entrance, showing the address of 7255 Helix Park Ave Two Dynamic Way small structure. Helix Park, section 2: Collaborative Building, again. Photo of the week!
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    Construction update for this week. I'm betting the foundation will reach surface level any week now. Should be above ground any week! The podium for this skyscraper is really nice. Looking forward to this one!
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    Tower crane bases have been installed! This is moving super-fast!! Tower crane 1: Tower crane 2:
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    Crawler crane showed up this week! This should be breaking ground in the next few weeks. Look out for city permitting!
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    The Loopnet listing has been updated with new photos! https://www.loopnet.com/Listing/3131-Holcombe-Blvd-Houston-TX/23664213/
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    I'm a little late to the party, but wow!! Amazing renderings and graphics. Hopefully it really does start within the next few months. The new RO logo/insignia is really fancy!! Reminds me of the Rolls Royce logo! I really like the small buildings attached to the base of the residential tower. They look elegant. It appears the jenga style office building was changed. It's now shorter and has darker colors. Whatever works to get it built! Let's go!!
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    Found this postcard on Ebay. Very much related, but the hospital is unnamed. This could be a different hospital. Very cool history here! A hospital in Camp Logan, Houston, Texas
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    Interesting! Not only did The Green Parrot have a second location, now we discover they had even a third location?! Awesome finding here. Wast this their last restaurant location perhaps? I wonder all 3 store operational dates. Did they have nick names, or store numbers? The Green Parrot 668-6039 4009 Bellaire at Stella Link Houston, Texas Continuing a Dining Tradition True Southern Family Style Wednesday - Saturday 5:00 P.M. - 9:30 P.M. Sunday 11:30 A.M. - 8:30 P.M. Now located 4009 Bellaire at Stella Link Houston, Texas When in Uptown Houston East at The Buttery Fannin Bank Bldg. across from The Shamrock
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