What a way to make up for yesterday! Finally, demolition permits are issued for more than a dozen addresses within the almost-full-block at Main and Rusk being offed to make way for Hines’s MainPlace downtown — including the historic 1912 Beatty-West Building, the 1940 former Bond Clothes store, and the 11-story Montagu Hotel, originally the 1913 Hotel Cotton. Plus: Way, way down Main St., the Droubi’s railroad car at Kirby Dr. finally leaves the station.
Our list of colorful names and addresses of stores-no-more, as usual, begin after the jump.
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Update: The Montagu Hotel will be imploded Sunday, January 20th.
Commercial Structures
- Super Stop Food Mart, 801 Main St. 77002
- City Girl, 803 Main St. 77002
- 805 Main St. 77002
- Downtown Deli, 807 Main St. 77002
- Sally Beauty Supply, 811 Main St. 77002
- True Nails, 811 Main St. A 77002
- Muddy’s Ice House, 813 Main St. 77002
- Ramas African Boutique, 815 Main St. A 77002
- West Building, 817 Main St. 77002
- T-Shirts & Beauty Supply, 819 Main St. 77002
- Taco Nation, 1008 Rusk St. 77002
- Arthur’s Bar B Q, 1010 Rusk St. 77002
- Bayou City Fruits, 1012 Rusk St. 77002
- Kammer-Terry, 1016 Rusk St. A 77002
- Majestic Hair Salon, 1016 Rusk St. B 77002
- Holmes Boat Works, 4404 Garrow St. 77011
- Deville Apartments, 4039 Bellefontaine St. 77025 (Bellefontaine Plaza)
- Droubi’s Bakery & Deli, 7807 Kirby Dr. 77030
Residences
- 5019 Carew St. 77096
- 8826 Prichett Dr. 77096
- 509 Rutland Place 77007
- 2731 Drexel Dr. 77027
- 4517 Floyd St. 77007
- 4605 Floyd St. 77007
- 2310 Glen Haven Blvd. 77030 (Braeswood)
- 1017 Herkimer St. 77008
- Houston Developer To Demolish Historic Buildings [PreservationNation]
- Montagu / Hotel Cotton and Bond Clothes Store [arch-ive.org]
- Beatty-West Building (scroll down to read story) [Greater Houston Preservation Alliance]
- MainPlace: Hines’s 46-Story Green Pipe-Wrench Dream [Swamplot]
Hotel Cotton postcard: arch-ive.org
