Magnolia Hotel (Houston)

Magnolia Hotel Houston

General information
Location	1100 Texas Avenue Houston, Texas
Coordinates	29°45′32″N 95°21′41″W / 29.7589°N 95.3614°W / 29.7589; -95.3614Coordinates: 29°45′32″N 95°21′41″W / 29.7589°N 95.3614°W / 29.7589; -95.3614
Opening	2003
Owner	Magnolia Hotels
Height	99.1 m (325 ft)
Technical details
Floor count	22
Design and construction
Architect	Sanguient, Staats, Hendrick & Gottlieb Mitchell Carlson Stone, Inc. Guy Thornton Design
Other information
Number of rooms	314
Number of restaurants	1
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The Magnolia Hotel Houston is a hotel located at 1100 Texas Avenue, in downtown Houston, Texas. It was the tallest building in Houston from 1926 to 1927. The building once served as headquarters for the Shell Oil Company, and later home to The Houston Post-Dispatch.

References

↑ Magnolia Hotel (Houston) at Emporis
↑ Magnolia Hotel (Houston) at SkyscraperPage

External links

Magnolia Hotel Website

Downtown Houston

Areas

Education

Primary & Secondary Schools	Houston Independent School District Incarnate Word Academy

Colleges and universities	University of Houston–Downtown South Texas College of Law Houston Community College (closest campus is Midtown)

Libraries	Houston Public Library (Jones Building, Julia Ideson Building, and HPL Express Discovery Green)

Skyscrapers and complexes

Parks

Other landmarks

METRORail stations

This list is incomplete.

Timeline of the tallest buildings in Houston

Franklin Lofts (35 m) (1904) Capitol Lofts (41 m) (1908) Texas Company Annex (54 m) (1915) Club Quarters Hotel (62 m) (1925) Magnolia Hotel (99 m) (1926) Niels Esperson Building (125 m) (1927) JPMorgan Chase Building (130 m) (1929) ExxonMobil Building (185 m) (1963) One Shell Plaza (218 m) (1971) Enterprise Plaza (230 m) (1980) JPMorgan Chase Tower (305 m) (1982)

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