IkelHeimer and Company Building - Galveston, TX - Photos Then and Now on Waymarking.com

Historic photos from:

Texas Historical Commission. [Historic Property, Photograph], photograph, Date Unknown; University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History crediting Texas Historical Commission.

Lead Photo (Photograph THC_14-0862)

Second Photo (Photograph THC_14-0863)

Third Photo (Photograph THC_14-0864)

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Today the ground floor is home to Vargas Cut & Catch

Vargas Cut and Catch is the latest venture by restaurateur, Paco Vargas and his family. Located in the heart of Galveston's historic downtown district, Vargas Cut and Catch is a contemporary Steak House serving USDA Prime Steaks and the Freshest Seafood available.

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From the City Council Planning and Development Division
City of Galveston
January 26, 2017

SAINT GERMAIN PLACE
2102~2104
POSTOFFICE ST.

Saint Germain Place formerly known as the Jacobs Building and originally known as the IkelHeimer and Company Building built in 1898. The building was built for local businessman Mark Max as a Commercial income property. The Architect was famed George B. Stowe. The three-story late-Victorian building was designed with a corner turret, a flat roof and dozens of tall arched windows. Beautiful granite columns and a wide balcony spanning the exterior of the second floor.

Ikelheimer & Company Building
1898, George B. Stowe

The Galveston-born architect George B. Stowe contributed to the transformation of Postoffice Street in the 1890's with the three-story building for the investor Marx Marx. It was Stowe's first major downtown building, and it led Marx to commission him the next year to design Galveston's first "skyscraper", the six-story Improvement Loan & Trust Company Building (1900, demolished 1955) at 2228 Postoffice and Tremont. Tan brick and classical colonnettes mark Stowe's academic aspirations. But the chamfered corner tower with its conical cap is a vestige of Victorian picturesqueness. The building was remodeled for use as residential apartments in the early 1990's. New ground-floor facades were installed that were intended to be compatible with the historic fabric of the building as stated in Galveston Architecture Guidebook by Ellen Beasley and Stephen Fox.

Year photo was taken: 1960

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