Houston Cotton Exchange Building
1884 Houston Cotton Exchange Building | |
Location | 202 Travis St., Houston, Texas |
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Coordinates | 29°45′49″N 95°21′41″W / 29.7635°N 95.3613°W |
Area | 0.2 acres (0.081 ha) |
Built | 1884 |
Architect | Eugene Heiner |
Architectural style | Renaissance, Romanesque |
NRHP reference No. | 71000938[1] |
RTHL No. | 10693 |
Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | May 6, 1971 |
Designated RTHL | 1974 |
The Cotton Exchange Building is a historic building located in Downtown Houston.
History
[edit]Built in 1884, the Cotton Exchange Building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Houston Cotton Exchange and Board of Trade commissioned local architect Eugene Heiner to design a three-story building on Travis Street at the corner of Franklin in Houston. In 1907, the building was remodeled and a fourth floor added. The Houston Cotton Exchange continued to use the building until it moved its operations to a new building several blocks away at Prairie and Caroline in 1924.[2][3]
John Hannah and Jesse Edmundson, III purchased the Cotton Exchange Building in 1973. They restored the building and sold it in 1983.[4] Preservation Houston acknowledged Hannah's restoration work in 1979 with a Good Brick Award.[5]
Gallery
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postcard, circa 1904
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postcard, circa 1907
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Hannah, John Tweed (September 4, 2013). "Houston Cotton Exchange and Board of Trade". Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved February 9, 2024.
- ^ Betty Chapman (December 30, 2007). "Bales of Business planted seeds for Cotton Exchange Building". Houston Business Journal. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
- ^ Barna, Joel Warren (1983). "Easement Down the Road" (PDF). Cite (Fall). Retrieved February 9, 2024.
- ^ "Past Good Brick Award recipients". Preservation Houston. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
Bibliography
[edit]- Bradley, Barrie Scardino (2020). Improbable Metropolis: Houston's Architectural and Urban History. Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-1-4773-2019-8.
- Fox, Stephen (2012). AIA Houston Architectural Guide (Third ed.). Houston: American Insitute of Architects, Houston Chapter. ISBN 978-0-615-66959-5.
- National Register of Historic Places in Houston
- Commercial buildings completed in 1884
- Romanesque Revival architecture in Texas
- Renaissance Revival architecture in Texas
- Buildings and structures in Harris County, Texas
- Buildings and structures in Houston
- 1884 establishments in Texas
- Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Texas
- Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks
- 1880s architecture in the United States
- Cotton industry in the United States
- Commodity exchanges in the United States
- Texas Registered Historic Place stubs