Lamar Hotel

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The Lamar Hotel was a hotel in Houston , Texas , from 1927 to 1987 .

The hotel was named after Mirabeau B. Lamar . It was built in the property of Jesse Holman Jones . The 16-story hotel building was built to a design by Alfred Charles Finn (1883–1964) and opened in 1927. The address was 1026-1040 Main Street, which is now 921 Lamar Ave and Travis Street.

From 26 to 28 June 1928, the Congress of the Democratic Party , attended Woodrow Wilson in the penthouse of the hotel. The house was closed in 1983.

Suite 8F

Suite 8F has often been referred to as the unofficial capital of Texas. There were two rooms with a kitchenette that George Rufus Brown had rented from Brown & Root . This is where the Suite 8F Group met .

The room key to Suite 8F is now in the Heritage Societys Museum in Sam Houston Park .

Metropolitan Theater

The hotel included the nine-story Metropolitan Theater between 1016 Main Street (now Lamar Ave) and 900 McKinney Street, a lecture hall with nearly 2,300 seats, in Egyptian Art Deco . The construction costs of the Metropolitan Theater amounted to two million USD . In this building the Publix Theaters Corp. a theater. It opened on December 25, 1926. The Metropolitan Orchestra was hydraulically lifted out of the orchestra pit . From the early 1950s, the Metropolitan Theater was primarily used as a cinema.

The theater building was demolished in 1973.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The New York Times , Aug. 21, 2007, It's Lonesome in This Old Town, Until You Go Underground
  2. ^ The New York Times , March 14, 1987, HOUSTON LOSES PIECE OF HERITAGE WITH SALE OF THE CHRONICLE
  3. ↑ http://www.houstondeco.org/1920s/metro.html
  4. ↑ en: Texas State Historical Association , FINN, ALFRED CHARLES (1883–1964)
  5. ^ A Guide to the Jesse Holman Jones Papers, 1880-1965
  6. ^ Time , Monday, Jul. 02, 1928, DEMOCRATS: The Democracy
  7. ^ The New York Times , July 21, 1983, NOSTALGIA FOR SALE AT A HOUSTON HOTEL
  8. ^ The New York Times , October 30, 1989, Houston Candidates Court Business
  9. ↑ http://www.drakkar91.com/history/lamar.jpg
  10. ↑ http://cinematreasures.org/theater/1702/

Coordinates: 29 ° 45 '24.2 "  N , 95 ° 21' 59.3"  W.