Houston Deco: Houston's Modernistic Architecture

909 Texas Ave.
demolished
Completed: 1938
Demolished: 1957
Architect: Kenneth Franzheim

Although the former Rice Hotel has been restored as residential lofts, interiors of the Empire Room, a supper club once located in the hotel, were demolished long ago.

above | dance floor, 1938

Photo courtesy Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Houston Public Library

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