Talk:National Register of Historic Places listings in downtown Houston, Texas

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Southern Pacific offices[edit]

The NRHP form for the Stowers Building mentions, "the 9-story Southern Pacific Office Building (1911, NRHP 1984)." I can find no corroboration that this building is NHRP-listed. There is no listing for downtown Houston. I also checked the other Harris County lists. I checked the National Archives Catalog and the Texas Historic Atlas database. Is this attribution to the NRHP in error? The building is currently in use as the Hotel Icon, if that helps. Oldsanfelipe (talk) 13:05, 28 October 2018 (UTC) edited once by Oldsanfelipe (talk) 13:05, 28 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Could that be an alternative name for the Macatee Building, which was NRHP-listed on May 24, 1984, and then later delisted, on April 15, 1991? It was at 101 Austin St. Architects or builders included "Cook, W. L.; Stadtler & Hayes" and Architecture is coded as: "Renaissance", per NRIS2013a database. I can't immediately find anything about it from the THC site. --Doncram (talk) 14:19, 28 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The Stowers Building NRHP form says the Southern Pacific building was designed by Chicago architect Jarvis Hunt, whose article gives a source about his works, which includes: "Houston. Southern Pacific Building, 1911. 10 stories. 913 Franklin St at Travis St. / Now Bayou Lofts." and links to Photos showing brick details. --Doncram (talk) 14:28, 28 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Looking on the "map of all coordinates" shows, near Travis and Franklin, a point location of Main Street Market Square Historic District. The district spans many blocks, and per this map of the district has all four corners of that intersection. The district was NRHP-listed in 1983. It would be accurate to say that any contributing building in the district was NRHP-listed in 1983. THC PDF for the listing is here, which is loading really slowly for me, I can't read it yet. And, in fact, there was a boundary increase to the district in 1984. Which per the THC site included 110 Milam, 112-114 Milam, 202-204 Milam, 715 Franklin. THC PDF for the increase is here. --Doncram (talk) 14:41, 28 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

the main PDF for the district finally finishes loading, and includes:

36. Southern Pacific Building. 913 Franklin Avenue (1910-1911); Jarvis Hunt, architect. Contributing. This nine-story, steel-frame building is faced with brown brick and has a brown-marble, one-story base. Abstract Renaissance details are rendered in brick and terra cotta. The eight-bay front has one window to each side bay, and paired windows elsewhere. Red mortar is used in places as a decorative detail. The very deep, plain iron cornice protrudes on both street elevations. See photos 4, 5.

Photos 4 and 5 showing the building are on PDF pages 56 and 58. --Doncram (talk) 14:49, 28 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Knowing what it looks like, then browsing in Commons Category:Buildings in Houston i find a pic of the Macatee building (and just added it to the list-article) but not any of the Southern Pacific Building. --Doncram (talk) 15:12, 28 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Doncram: Thanks. Duh! Of course it's the Bayou Lofts. I still think of it as the SoPac offices. I have a downtown Houston plan for 2019: create articles for all of the red links, upload photos, and expand all of the stubs. I am working offline on an article which I will release later in the week, start class or better. After that I'll be disappearing from NRHP for awhile. Cheers, Oldsanfelipe (talk) 15:25, 28 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]