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Scanlan Building

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1909, D. H. Burnham and Company. 405 Main St.
  • (Photograph by Gerald Moorhead )

The eleven-story Scanlan Building was, briefly, the tallest of a wave of new eight-to sixteen-story skyscrapers built in downtown Houston between 1908 and 1912. In retaining D. H. Burnham of Chicago as architect, Kate Scanlan, Houston's most important female developer between 1900 and 1910, became one of several Houstonians who turned to nationally known architects for the design of local business and institutional buildings in the period. The steel-framed building is faced with white terra-cotta and glazed brick.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "Scanlan Building", [Houston, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-01-HN19.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: Central, South, and Gulf Coast, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013, 334-334.

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