Houston Deco: Houston's Modernistic Architecture
242-256 W. Gray Ave.
endangered
Completed: 1938
Architect: Moore & Lloyd


The west end of the building housed Houston's Orange Crush bottling plant from the late 1930s to the early 1950s. Houston Independent School District owns the vacant building, which is on the proposed site of the new High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.

above | façade, 2007
detail | façade detail, 2007

Photo by David Bush
 
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