{"nrhp_refnum":"07001384","name":"Texas State Hotel","other_names":["San Jacinto Hotel"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"720 Fannin","address_restricted":false,"city":"Houston","county":"Harris County","state":"TX","lat":29.758107911000025,"lon":-95.36302185599999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-01-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 16-story steel-framed, C-plan hotel skyscraper with Spanish Plateresque ornament at 720 Fannin, at Fannin and Rusk in downtown Houston, Texas, built 1928-29 and designed by architect Joseph Finger.","why_significant":"The building is a well-preserved example of a 1920s Houston hotel skyscraper, with limestone and cast stone Plateresque detailing, original wooden windows and surviving lobby tile. It was part of the hotel interests of businessman Jesse H. Jones. The nomination also places it within the development of the twentieth-century urban hotel in Texas and Houston's hotel trade, where it ranked third in room count in 1930.","narrative":"Rising sixteen stories at the northwest corner of Fannin and Rusk in downtown Houston, this steel-framed hotel was built in 1928-29 to designs by Joseph Finger. Its C-shaped plan brought light and air to interior rooms, and its three-part form divides into base, shaft and capital. Limestone and cast stone ornament in the Spanish Plateresque manner decorates the lower and upper floors, including coats of arms, fleur-de-lys and engaged columns, while the original eight-over-one wooden sash windows survive. The hotel belonged to the holdings of Houston businessman Jesse H. Jones. In 1930 it ranked third among the city's hotels by room count, behind the Rice and the Lamar. A 1950s remodel altered the storefront and lobby, but a recent rehabilitation reconstructed them from the original drawings and kept the original Adamantile lobby tile and staircase. Today it holds hotel rooms and apartments, and it is recognized for its architecture and its place in Houston's hotel history.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Joseph Finger (architect)","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Spanish Colonial Revival; Spanish Plateresque; skyscraper","criteria":[],"status_note":"Rehabilitated and in use as a hotel with 250 rooms on floors two through nine and 70 residential apartments on floors ten through sixteen.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:23.499137-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/32/9723/40972332/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/07001384.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07001384/e54ce397fd-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07001384/e54ce397fd-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Hourick","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ClubquartersHouston.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Hourick</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ClubquartersHouston.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40972332","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Club_Quarters_Hotel_(Houston)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5136350"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/harris-county/texas-state-hotel-07001384/"}