The Sears store at 4000 North Shepherd Drive in Garden Oaks was the retailer’s third location in Houston when it opened in 1950. Built at a cost of $2 million, the store was designed by prominent Dallas architect George Dahl with Cowell & Neuhaus of Houston.
PH Watch List: 1933 and 1937 Dryden Road
In May 1936, Snedden & Young, architects and builders, announced the construction of two modernistic apartment houses at 1933 and 1937 Dryden Road in Southgate near Rice University. The buildings are among Houston’s few surviving examples of Streamline Moderne architecture, a style that was very popular in the years before World War II. Morningstar Construction & Development plans to demolish them and build a mid-rise residential complex on the site.
PH Watch List: Sixth Church of Christ, Scientist
Sixth Church of Christ, Scientist, the oldest African-American Christian Science congregation in Texas, constructed its modernistic building in 1941 across from Emancipation Park in the heart of the Third Ward. The group was organized in 1914 and acquired the property at 2202 Elgin Avenue in 1940; Houston architect Henry D. Frankfurt designed the building with clean, modern lines and a distinctive octagonal lantern atop the sanctuary.
PH Watch List: Rossonian Cleaners
The Rossonian Cleaners building is part of the historic streetscape of what was once a major retail artery leading from Midtown to neighborhoods farther south. The original section of the building was completed in 1928 for Rossonian Cleaners and Tailors. Although a later addition to the south side of the building has been altered, the 1928 structure retains almost all its original architectural features.