Houston in the Jazz Age*

*aaand a couple of late 19th century churches....

Links go to each structure's Texas Historical Commission Atlas entry. I also used this extremely helpful list of the National Register of Historic Places in Harris County. A follow-up post featuring primarily Victorian architecture in Houston is coming. But now, looking at Houston through a Roaring '20s (and a little earlier) filter:

Sterling-Berry House, c. 1916,
Prairie School/Art Nouveau/Classical; architect: Alfred C. Finn



Simon and Mamie Minchen House, c. 1931,
Italian Renaissance; architect: Joseph Finger



Mr. and Mrs. Leonard W. Macatee House, c. 1915, Italian/Picturesque


Link-Lee House, c. 1912, Classical Revival; architect: Alfred C. Finn



Isabella Court, c. 1928-1929, Spanish Colonial Revival, "hints" of Art Deco



Sheridan Apartments, c. 1922,
Mediterranean influence, architect: Alfred C. Finn


Benjamin Apartments, c. 1924, architect: Alfred C. Finn


Old Jefferson Davis Hospital, c. 1924


Morton Brothers Grocery, c. 1925


Schauer Filling Station, c. 1929


One of the first service stations in the Heights

Antioch Missionary Baptist Church, c. 1875-1879, Gothic Revival
Houston's first African American Baptist church; downtown has grown up around it, including, perhaps most notably (and ironically), the former Enron Building (left background).

Annunciation Church, c. 1868, r. 1884,
Romanesque, architect: Nicholas J. Clayton