Houston Deco: Houston's Modernistic Architecture
339 W. 19th St.
restored
Historic name: Heights Theater
Current name: Heights Theater Antiques (vacant)
Completed: 1925
Remodeled: c. 1941
GHPA Good Brick Award (façade restoration), 1993


The theater was originally built in the Mission style, but was given a modernistic update around 1941. Fire gutted the building in 1969; the façade was the only part of the historic theater that survived.

above | façade, 2006
detail (top) | sign detail, 2007
detail (bottom)
| façade, 1935

Photo by David Bush
 
 
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