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The original plat of Galveston, drawn in the late 1830s, includes Avenue B. The name 'strand' for Ave. B was coined by a German immigrant named Michael William Shaw who opened a jewelry store on the corner of 23rd and Ave. B. Shaw, not liking the name "Ave. B", changed the name of the street on his stationery to "Strand", thinking that the name (named after a street in London) would have ...
Eiband's was built for a clothing store of the same name in 1914 by Green & Finger. It is located at 2201 Post Office Street in Galveston, Texas and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [2] Eiband's incorporated older buildings into a complex in 1914.
Timeline of former nameplates merging into Macy's. Many United States department store chains and local department stores, some with long and proud histories, went out of business or lost their identities between 1986 and 2006 as the result of a complex series of corporate mergers and acquisitions that involved Federated Department Stores and The May Department Stores Company with many stores ...
Location of Galveston County in Texas This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Galveston County, Texas . There are 10 districts, 73 individual properties, and four former properties listed on the National Register in the county.
Originally the Tremont Opera house, some of the walls were retained when it was re-designed as the E.S. Levy department store in 1896. The building was built for E.S. Levy & Co. and Ed S. Levy. [2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 13, 2003. The building is located at 2221-2225 Market Street.
Galveston — Strand Historic District; Houston — Westheimer Road, Uptown Houston, Rice Village, Upper Kirby, Highland Village, CityCentre, GreenStreet, Memorial City District, West Avenue, Harwin Drive, Downtown Houston, Uptown Park, BLVD Place, River Oaks District; San Antonio — San Antonio River Walk, The Shops at La Cantera, North Star Mall
Galveston (/ ˈ ɡ æ l v ɪ s t ən / GAL-vis-tən) is a coastal resort city and port off the Southeast Texas coast on Galveston Island and Pelican Island in the U.S. state of Texas.The community of 211.31 square miles (547.3 km 2), with a population of 53,695 at the 2020 census, [6] is the county seat of surrounding Galveston County and second-largest municipality in the county.
Michaelis, a drug store owner, moved his business to 510 23rd Street in 1906. [ 1 ] The owner of the property was the Scanlan family and managed by Kate Scanlan of Houston, who commissioned Nicholas J. Clayton to design the remodeling of the building around 1909.