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: Weiner's Dry Goods Store No. 12
Renderings of proposed alterations to the former Weiner’s Dry Goods Store No. 12 (1946, Irving R. Klein) at 4901 Washington Avenue were released in mid-December 2018. A remodeling of the property to accommodate a new tenant, Arizona-based beer garden chain Bottled Blonde, includes eliminating the largely extant Streamline Moderne-style façade.
Landmark Sears building to become tech hub
Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner and Rice University President David Leebron announced plans April 12 to repurpose the landmark Sears building in Midtown as a hub for tech startups, part of a larger proposal to develop an innovation district along Main Street between downtown and the Texas Medical Center in collaboration with a variety of educational and research institutions and businesses.