Wednesday, August 31, 2016
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
High-rise Criminal Courthouse in Downtown Houston
Harris County Family Law Center (front) and Criminal Justice Center (back) |
1201 Franklin, Houston, TX 77002
Franklin Street looking West: Old Jail, Criminal Justice Center (right) (Sep 17, 2016 photo) |
Top of South-facing facade of Criminal Courthouse - Harris County, Texas (Houston) (9/15/2016 photo) |
Monday, August 29, 2016
Former Union National Bank Building, now Hotel Icon on corner of Main and Congress
Located on the corner of Main and Congress, historic Hotel Icon also frames Market Square on the Travis Street side.
Travis Street Restaurant Row - Clock Tower - Hotel Icon |
Hotel Icon Parking Garage on corner of Congress and Travis St. |
Partial view of Houston is Inspired Mural on Treebeards wall Can you find a bit of Hotel Icon in this pic? |
View from Milam Street: Hotel Icon and County Building/garage with bright white wall facing West |
220 Main Entrance to Hotel Icon Restaurant Line & Lariat |
Sunday, August 28, 2016
Saturday, August 27, 2016
Red-brick Sam Houston Hotel
SAM HOUSTON HOTEL
Sam Houston Hotel with vintage street lamps on Main in foreground |
North-facing red brick wall of Sam Houston Hotel (with signage) |
View of Sam Houston Hotel from Fannin St at the 1910 Courthouse |
Sam Houston Hotel with Texas flag hoisted - SW corner View from Texas Street in Downtown Houston (9/1/2016) |
View from Main Street looking East |
Sunday, August 21, 2016
Friday, August 19, 2016
Thursday, August 18, 2016
Black and Red House in Montrose, with Lanterns, and variations on the theme
A converted single-family residential property on the corner of Westheimer and Stanford has joined to the impressive number of tattoo parlors in Montrose. Black and red is not all that common a color combination for a house or a biz, to be sure, but it is not entirely unprecedented either, whether the application be secular or not so secular.
Mark's Fine Dining in a Church RIP |
1658 Westheimer - Former church and restaurant |
Mark's.- Now demarcated from Shaw's westward and no longer serving the congregation attuned the finer and more uplifting things in life, but still a commanding presence on Recycled Rags Row.
Red brick with black deck: The Royal Oak Bar & Grill (Jan 2016 photo) |
The Black Faced Wall Black at least on a dreary day (otherwise grey), not to mention low in light during business hours, the Numbers Night Club, with a little red cheer out front, both solid and striped. |
And then there is the black & white edition of a Montrose tattoo parlor ...
Houston Ink Society |
.... and that polychrome version of a tattoo venue across from the biskit junkie on the corner of Taft
Sacred Heart Tattoo at 327 Westheimer across from El Tiempo Cantina on Westheimer and Biskit Junkie on the West (Taft) |
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