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 offers to fund documentation of important Fort Bend County site
Preservation Houston’s Board of Directors has voted to fund a project to document the Arcola plantation sugar house, or purgery, in Fort Bend County. Site owner Johnson Development is considering the proposal. Pending the developer's approval, a team from Texas A&M University’s Center for Heritage Conservation will conduct the work in February.
Chevron's demolition of historic Shelor Motor Company Building downtown appears imminent
With permits in place and the site fenced off, Chevron is moving forward with the demolition of one of the last remnants of downtown Houston's automobile row of the 1920s. Architectural historian Stephen Fox has written an article for the Houston Chronicle's Gray Matters explaining why the energy corporation should preserve the former Shelor Motor Company (1928), 1621 Milam at Pease. Preservation Houston has contacted Chevron encouraging the company to halt the demolition.