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Box 165

 Container

Contains 71 Results:

Mason Block Realty Corp.; Loan with S.W. Straus + Co., 1929-1940

 File — Box: 165, Folder: 71
Original Introduction and Arrangement From the Collection: INTRODUCTION In mid-December, 1992, architectural historian Barrie Scardino and I met with Houston Endowment President, Joe Nelson, on the fifth floor of the Bankers Mortgage Building, in what was once Jesse Jones's office. At that time, Ms. Scardino and I were assigned the job of creating an archive from a maze of documents and photographs that had been retrieved from the building's faded green file cabinets, old painted safes and walk-in vaults. Little did we know that the stacks of plain,...
Dates: Other: 1929-1940