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It was the largest office building in Houston at the time, containing approximately 196,000 sq ft (18,200 m 2) of space. [2] A 1932 renovation added a central air conditioning system to the building, the first in any Houston office building. [3] Humble Oil and Refining Company expanded the building in 1936 with an adjacent 17-story tower.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places in downtown Houston, Texas. It is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the Downtown Houston neighborhood, defined as the area enclosed by Interstate 10 , Interstate 45 , and Interstate 69 .
The Edward A. Thomas Building, [2] or 1200 Travis, is a 28-story building in Downtown Houston, Texas that is currently occupied by the Houston Police Department as its current headquarters. At one time it was known as the Houston Natural Gas Building. [3] The building houses HPD's administrative and investigative offices. [4]
The Wells Fargo Plaza, formerly the Allied Bank Plaza and First Interstate Bank Plaza, is a skyscraper located at 1000 Louisiana Street in Downtown Houston, Texas in the United States. This building is currently the 20th-tallest Building in the United States , the second tallest building in Texas and Houston, after Houston's JPMorgan Chase ...
On Wednesday August 2, 2000, the Houston City Council voted 10–4 to stop enforcing the informal agreement and enact a new law that exempts a company from the height restriction if the national headquarters of a company occupies 45 percent or more of a Downtown Houston building of over 750,000 square feet (70,000 m 2) of usable space.
The Hogg Building, also known as the Hogg Palace, is a building complex located on the 400 block of Louisiana in Downtown Houston, Texas, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Originally the Armor Building , it was developed by Will Hogg and initially leased as a car show room with office spaces on the upper floors, with ...
Heritage Plaza is a postmodern skyscraper located in the Skyline District of downtown Houston, Texas. Standing at 762 feet (232 m), [1] the tower is the 5th-tallest building in Houston, the 8th-tallest in Texas, and the 60th-tallest in the United States. The building, designed by Houston-based M. Nasr & Partners P.C., was completed in 1987, and ...
The Houston office of HOK designed the building, and Turner Construction acted as the general contractor. [3] It is connected to the downtown tunnel system . Mark Russell of Studley, a real estate firm, said that the Calpine Center is more efficient than many of the tall office buildings built in Houston in the early 1980s.