Sam Houston Hall

The Sam Houston Hall was a building located in Houston, Texas. It was located at 801 Bagby Street near downtown.

The Sam Houston Hall was a wooden structure erected for the 1928 Democratic National Convention.^[1] It later hosted the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.

It was torn down in 1936 and replaced by a complex which consisted of the Sam Houston Coliseum and Houston Music Hall.

References

↑ Venue information and background

Coordinates: 29°45′42.70″N 95°22′11.95″W / 29.7618611°N 95.3699861°W / 29.7618611; -95.3699861\

Venues of the Democratic National Convention

The Athenaeum and Warfield's Church (1832)
Fourth Presbyterian Church (Baltimore) (1835)
The Assembly Rooms (1840)
Odd Fellows Hall (1844)
Universalist Church (Baltimore) (1848)
Maryland Institute (1852)
Smith and Nixon's Hall (1856)
South Carolina Institute Hall / Front Street Theater (1860)
The Amphitheatre (Chicago) (1864)
Tammany Hall (1868)
Ford's Grand Opera House (1872)
Merchants Exchange Building (1876)
Cincinnati Music Hall (1880)
Interstate Exposition Building (1884)
Exposition Building (1888)
Wigwam (1892)
Chicago Coliseum (1896)
Convention Hall (1900)
St. Louis Coliseum (1904)
Denver Auditorium Arena (1908)
Fifth Regiment Armory (1912)
Convention Hall (1916)
San Francisco Civic Auditorium (1920)
Madison Square Garden (1890) (1924)
Sam Houston Hall (1928)
Chicago Stadium (1932)
Philadelphia Convention Hall/Franklin Field (1936)
Chicago Stadium (1940)
Chicago Stadium (1944)
Philadelphia Convention Hall (1948)
International Amphitheatre (1952)
International Amphitheatre (1956)
Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena / Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum (1960)
Atlantic City Convention Hall (1964)
International Amphitheatre (1968)
Miami Beach Convention Center (1972)
Madison Square Garden (1976)
Madison Square Garden (1980)
Moscone Center (1984)
Omni Coliseum (1988)
Madison Square Garden (1992)
United Center (1996)
Staples Center (2000)
FleetCenter (2004)
Pepsi Center / Invesco Field (2008)
Time Warner Cable Arena (2012)
Wells Fargo Center (2016)

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