Houston Deco: Houston's Modernistic Architecture

The Gulf Building symbolizes my conception of the Houston of Today. Both are essentially modern. — Jesse H. Jones, July 29, 1929

For many of Houston’s business leaders, modernistic architecture represented their hopes for the city’s future. The opening of the 36-story Gulf Building in July 1929 marked the high point of the Roaring '20s building boom that was transforming Houston.


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  Petroleum Building
1927, Alfred C. Bossom with Maurice J. Sullivan and Briscoe & Dixon
  The Smart Shop
1928, Alfred C. Finn
  A.C. Burton Co. Chrysler Sales and Service
1929, Joseph Finger
demolished
 
  Gulf Building
1929, Alfred C. Finn, Kenneth Franzheim and J.E.R. Carpenter
  Krupp & Tuffly
1929, Alfred C. Finn
  Levy Bros. Dry Goods/Chamber of Commerce Building
1929, Joseph Finger and Alfred C. Finn
  Medical Arts Building
1929, Andrew Fraser
  Peden Co. Building
1929, James Ruskin Bailey
  Sakowitz Bros.
1929, Taussig & Flesch
demolished
 
  Sears, Roebuck & Co.
1929, Nimmons, Carr & Wright
demolished
 


  Coca-Cola Bottling Plant
1929, Pringle & Smith with Alfred C. Finn
demolished
 


  Houston Turn-Verein Clubhouse
1929, Joseph Finger
demolished
 
  Odd Fellows Hall
1929, Lenard Gabert


  Metropolitan Theater
1926, Alfred C. Finn
demolished
 


  James and Jessie West Mansion
1929, Joseph Finger
endangered
 
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