AT&T Building At 1407 Jefferson St.

[JLWM8609]

2 hours ago, cspwal said:

There's a bunch of black poles spread out through downtown that were installed in the run up to the Super Bowl.  I asked one of the workers and they said it was "for cell phones".  I could see them going to smaller more distributed antennas and dismantling the microwave dishes on top of this building

I've seen poles like that going up around the city. 

[Triton]

Does anyone know the history of this place? Is there like a building built on top of another building? Looks like the brick work changes on this place going up and doesn't match the rest.

[cloud713]

I noticed that too when I was passing by a week or two ago when the crane was there removing the antenna on the roof. Kind of like how the old Chronicle building had one segment built over the old theater.

[ArchFan]

I'm old enough (unfortuately ;-) to remember the original shorter building that had windows.  I don't remember exactly when (probably late 60s or 70s), but they added a bunch of floors above, with fewer windows.

Edited November 6, 2017 by ArchFan

[Ross]

Space was probably added to provide room for additional switches as the number of phone lines grew.

[hindesky]

[strickn]

The

On 1/17/2008 at 7:49 AM, jm1fd said:

telecom bunkerscrapers ... were factoring in 5 nines of reliability.

... one in Shreveport 

From http://www.co-buildings.com/la/318/shreveport_main_4.JPG

[strickn]

https://www.co-buildings.com/la/318/shreveport_main_2.JPG

https://www.co-buildings.com/la/318/shreveport_main_3.JPG

 

[Houston19514]

This does not appear to be the building that is or ever was at 1117 - 1119 Capitol St.  (This photo was taken from a bygonely.com entry title "Houston in the 1930s". There was a lot of bad information given on that website, including this entry. It claims it's in the 1930s, but the car is clearly a newer model than anything from the 1930s. The thread tells us the building is at 1117-1119 Capitol.  I'm pretty sure that is incorrect.  There is a Bell Telephone building at 1121 Capitol, but this is not a picture of that building.  https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/topic/53964-att-capitol-central-office-at-1121-capitol-st/

 

This no doubt a Bell Telephone building, but not sure we know where it was; it may or may not be in Houston. (There were a LOT of them all over the country).  

Edited June 29 by Houston19514

[Houston19514]

I think I've found it.  This appears to be an early photo of the Southwestern Bell (now AT&T) building at Austin and Jefferson.  It is much taller now, but one can clearly see a change in brick color exactly at the original height.

1407 Jefferson St.  Mods, please move this to the 1407 Jefferson thread.

 

[Avossos]

This is not in Houston. Look at the elevation… 

[Ross]

1 hour ago, Avossos said:

This is not in Houston. Look at the elevation… 

The picture links say it's Shreveport, La.

[Houston19514]

There’s some confusion because my posts were originally in a different thread.  My comments stating that the photo was of the 1407 Jefferson building were in reference to the photo in Hindesky’s October 2021 post, not to the photos of the telephone building with the murals.  The building with murals is indeed in Shreveport.