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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 One Main Building, formerly the Merchants and Manufacturers Building (commonly referred to as the M&M Building), is a building on the campus of the University of Houston–Downtown. The building is recognized as part of the National Register of Historic Places , is a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark , and considered a Contributing Building ...
The Main Street Market Square District has irregular boundaries. The district includes all of the blocks between Travis and Main from Texas Street to the northern boundary of University of Houston-Downtown. From the southern edge of Market Square at Preston Street, it captures all of the blocks northward until Buffalo Bayou. It includes three ...
1 Houston Center: 1221 McKinney Street P3 Level: Kelsey-Seybold Clinic (Suite 300) ChevronTexaco Credit Union (Suite 469) 2 Houston Center: 909 Fannin Street Bank of America (Suite 2) 4 Houston Center: 1200 McKinney Street Jos. A. Bank (Suite 105) T-Mobile (Suite 305) Subway (Suite 343) Chick-fil-A (Suite 363) Great American Cookies (Suite 369)
The northeast corner of the structure houses a building within a building. On the site is the main Western Union building and when relocation of the telegraph cables proved unfeasible, a new structure was built over the site and the existing structure was incorporated into the new building intact. The stone used for the exterior is red Swedish ...
The building is located at 301 Main Street in Houston, Texas and occupies the corner of Main Street and Congress Street in Downtown Houston. [1] The building is one of the few Victorian-style architectural structures that remains in the city. [2] The building received a "City of Houston Landmark" designation in 2009.
Jim Parsons of the Greater Houston Preservation Alliance (GHPA) believes that Sanguinet & Staats, a Fort Worth, Texas firm, may have designed the building. In 1922, the building received an expansion. When Texaco relocated to a building on San Jacinto Street, the building became the Bankers Mortgage Building.
The Ion building (pictured in December 2020) was converted from a former Sears store and serves as the Ion District's central hub.. The Ion is a 266,000-square-foot (24,700 m 2), six-level building on Main Street in what was formerly a four-story Sears department store built in 1939 and closed in 2018. [12]