Commercial National Bank Building
116-120 Main Street 917-919 Franklin Avenue 1904 Green & Svarz, architects The information in this entry is taken directly from the 1980 Houston Architectural Survey and has not been significantly revised or updated. Classification commercial building; original site; good condition; partially occupied; restricted access Owner Description Located on the northwest corner of Main […]
Kiam Building
Located on the southwest corner of Main Street and Preston Avenue, the Kiam Building is one of many buildings erected in the 1880s and 1890s in the United States that were influenced by the Romanesque-inspired architecture of H. H. Richardson (1838-1886). These buildings were characterized by the use of Romanesque arches, heavy massing, ribbon bands of deep-set windows and use of rough faced stone or stone-trimmed red brick, as in the Kiam Building.
Burns Building
The Burns Building is a three-story Victorian Italianate-style commercial building erected in 1883 on the northeast corner of Main Street and Prairie Avenue. The structure is rectangular (59′ x 100′) with a small one-and-one-half-story addition in the rear. Of brick construction, the two main facades are stuccoed and heavily decorated with overlaid plasterwork. Although several obvious alterations have been made during this century (most notably removal of both the first-floor iron canopy and a pavilion over the southeast corner of the building), the facade of the upper floors remains virtually intact.
Henry Brashear Building
Built in the late nineteenth century, the Brashear building displays vaguely Renaissance motifs within a Victorian context. Located mid-block near Main Street in the once active commercial center of town, this small three-story building is constructed of brick, plastered heavily, with both the cornice and ground floor storefront (now only partially extant) of iron.