{"nrhp_refnum":"83004476","name":"Oriental Textile Mill","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"2201 Lawrence St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Houston","county":"Harris County","state":"TX","lat":29.80593803100004,"lon":-95.40845800799997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-06-22","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A large brick industrial complex at 2201 Lawrence Street in Houston Heights, Houston, Harris County, Texas, built in 1893-94 for A. R. Morey and Company, mattress manufacturers. It covers an entire block near the railroad.","why_significant":"It was one of the first industrial complexes in Houston Heights and is the last of those early structures still standing and in use. It is best known as the Oriental Textile Mill, which employed many residents of the western Heights and once had a complex of small worker homes, since razed. Its areas of significance are architecture and industry at the local level.","narrative":"Occupying an entire block near the railroad at 2201 Lawrence Street, this brick industrial complex in Houston Heights was built in 1893-94 for A. R. Morey and Company, a mattress manufacturer. Most of it is two stories with a flat roof, brick cornice, corner piers and brick hoodmolds over paired windows. A four-story square tower, three bays wide with a corbelled top, rises above a fifth stage faced in ashlar and topped by an arched bay with a clock and a parapet with a pediment-like peak. The complex later became the Oriental Textile Mill, which employed many residents of the western Heights and once had small worker homes nearby, now razed. It was one of the first industrial complexes in the Heights and is the last of those early structures remaining, still in use as a fiberglass factory. Alterations are minor, including aluminum windows and newer attached buildings. Its architecture and its role in local industry support its listing.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Physical condition good; minor alterations including recent attached buildings and aluminum windows; still in use as a fiberglass factory.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:19.298091-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/47/9694/40969447/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/83004476.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83004476/63588b4b73-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83004476/63588b4b73-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Ed Uthman, Houston, Texas, USA","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oriental_Textile_Mill_Houston_Heights_(HDR).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Ed Uthman, Houston, Texas, USA</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oriental_Textile_Mill_Houston_Heights_(HDR).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40969447","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_Textile_Mill","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20714672"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/harris-county/oriental-textile-mill-83004476/"}