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One Moody Plaza is also known as the American National Insurance Company Building, named for a company founded by William Lewis Moody in 1905. The insurance company employed 70 people in its Galveston office by in 1912, a number that increased to 500 by 1928, when it had already acquired 27 other insurance companies.
In 1857, congress created the Eastern and Western District of Texas. Texas continued to grow, and in 1879, congress formed the Northern District. As the railroads continued to expand and fuel the Texas economy, congress created the Southern District on July 1, 1902. [5] Marcus C. McLemore (1902-1906) Lodowick McDaniel (1906-1914)
The building serves as the federal court for the Galveston Division of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Constructed in 1937, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001 as Galveston U.S. Post Office, Custom House and Courthouse , [ 1 ] the building is home a number of federal agencies, and ...
Originally conceived as part of a City Beautiful civic center, Galveston relocated its new city hall from the old city market site to Rosenberg Avenue. The architecture firm of C. D. Hill & Company also designed a city hall for Dallas, employed Italian forms for its palazzo-type structure and its portico.
In 1870, President Ulysses S. Grant signed the bill creating the Department of Justice. [3] Still, there was not yet a permanent home for either the Attorney General or the Justice Department, and each had occupied a succession of temporary spaces in federal government buildings and privately owned office buildings. [3]
In the 1970s, Bakersfield College established a satellite campus in a former department store. Although not known as the Education District at the time, it was the first college to establish a presence downtown. [1] In 1997, the Bakersfield City School District established the Downtown Elementary School nearby. [2]
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In 1865 it was the site of the ceremony officially ending the war in Galveston. The U.S. Government resumed occupancy that year after making extensive repairs. It served as a courthouse for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas from 1862 until 1891, and was then retired from court service for a time.