Texas Company Building - Houston, Texas - U.S. National Register of Historic Places on Waymarking.com

Long Description:
Joseph S. Cullinan worked the oilfields of Northwestern Pennsylvania. He followed new oil field discoveries to Texas, landing in Beaumont right after Spindletop was struck. Within a few weeks, he had organized the Texas Fuel Company with Houston and New York investors. By 1903, the Texas Company had built its first refinery south of Beaumont in Port Arthur. When its offices were moved from Beaumont in 1908, the Texas Company became the first oil company to build headquarters in Houston, but the corporate headquarters only remained in Houston for five years before moving to New York City. The Regional Headquarters for the company, designed by architects Warren and Wetmore, were located here until moving across downtown to "http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMZR1">Heritage Plaza in the 1980s.

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Main Street/Market Square Historic District
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Street address: 1111 Rusk Street Houston, TX USA 77002 County / Borough / Parish: Harris County Year listed: 2003 Historic significance: Event, Architecture/Engineering Period of significance: 1900-1974 Historic function: Office Building Current function: Vacant Privately owned?: yes [U.S.] National Register of Historic Places URL: [Web Link] Season start / Season finish: Not listed Hours of operation: Not listed Website (secondary): Not listed

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