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20th Century Main Street Architecture Walk
May
18
2:00 PM14:00
Architecture Walks

20th Century Main Street Architecture Walk

Advance ticket purchase is required for this tour.

A walk along Main Street in downtown Houston is a walk through the city's business development and its changing architectural tastes. As Houston's business district grew in the 20th century, the street was built up with soaring skyscrapers, busy hotels, ornate movie theaters and lavish department stores. Suburbanization brought an end to downtown's heyday as a shopping and entertainment destination, but many of the buildings from this era of growth and glamour still stand, giving us a fascinating look at the Bayou City's past.

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20th Century Main Street Architecture Walk
May
7
2:00 PM14:00
Architecture Walks

20th Century Main Street Architecture Walk

  • Main Street at Texas Avenue Houston, TX 77002 (map)
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A walk along Main Street in downtown Houston is a walk through the city's business development and its changing architectural tastes. This 90-minute docent-guided tour traces Main Street's role as the center of activity for much of Houston's history, visiting early businesses and skyscrapers, retail stores, banks and the sites of its movie palaces.

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Architecture Walk: 20th Century Main Street
Jun
14
6:00 PM18:00
Architecture Walks

Architecture Walk: 20th Century Main Street

  • 712 Main St Houston, TX, 77002 United States (map)
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Head downtown Sunday afternoon, May 17, for a 90-minute guided walking tour of Main Street's 20th century architecture. From the richly detailed 1913 S.H. Kress & Co. Building to the starkly modern 1961 First City National Bank Building, a walk down Main Street is a look at Houston's growth, commercial development and changing architectural tastes. Other tour highlights include Alfred C. Finn's elegant building for the Sakowitz Bros. department store (1951) and a look back at the Metropolitan and Loew's State theaters, Main Street's lost movie palaces.

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