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Box 188

 Container

Contains 33 Results:

Commerce Building; Insurance, 1926

 File — Box: 188, Folder: 31
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: 1926

Commerce Building Property, 1920-1929

 File — Box: 188, Folder: 32
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: 1920-1929

Commerce Building Property; 99 year Land Lease, 1928-1936

 File — Box: 188, Folder: 33
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: 1928-1936