List of Alfred C. Finn works

This is a list of the works of the architect Alfred C. Finn.

Chronological list edit

Name City Address Year NRHP-listed? Status Type of Work Notes
Great Jones Building[1] Houston 708 Main Street 1908 Attributed to Sanguinet & Staats, with possible assistance from Finn
A. S. Cleveland House[2] Houston 8 Courtlandt Place 1911 Yes Architect With Sanguinet & Staats
James L. Autry House, Courtlandt Place[2] Houston 5 Courtlandt Place 1912 Yes Architect With Sanguinet & Staats
Link-Lee House[3] Houston 3800 Montrose 1912 Yes St. Thomas University campus Architect With Sanguinet & Staats
Rice Hotel[4] Houston 790 Texas Avenue 1913 Yes Post Lofts Supervising Architect Designed by Mauran, Russell & Crowell.
Foster Building[4] Houston 801 Texas Avenue 1914 Demolished 2017 Designing Architect AKA, The Houston Chronicle Building
Rusk Building[4] Houston Texas and Travis 1916 Demolished 2017 Designing Architect Later annexed to the Houston Chronicle Building
Sterling-Berry House[5] Houston 4515 Yoakum Boulevard 1916 Yes Architect Portico added in 1919
Henry H. Dickson House[citation needed] Houston 3614 Montrose 1917 Architect
Humble Gas Station[4] Houston Main Street at Jefferson 1918 Architect
Woodward House[6] Houston 1605 Heights Boulevard 1918 yes Architect
Jones-Hunt House[2] Houston 24 Courtlandt Place 1920 Yes Architect
Earl K. Wharton House[4] Houston 12 Remington Lane 1920 Architect
Sid Westheimer House[4] Houston Montrose 1920 Yes Architect
L.A. and Adelheid Machemehl House[citation needed] Bellville, Texas 1920 Yes Architect
International & Great Northern Hospital[7] Palestine, Texas 919 S. Magnolia 1922 Architect
Melba Theatre[4] Dallas 1913 Elm 1922 Demolished 1971 Designing Architect Built for John T. and Jesse H. Jones
Walter Fondren House[4] Houston 3410 Montrose 1922 Designing Architect
State National Bank Building (Houston, Texas)[8] Houston 412 Main 1923 yes Designing Architect
Houston Light Guard Armory[4] Houston 1925 Houston Buffalo Soldiers Museum[9] Designing Architect
Simon Theatre[4] Brenham, Texas 1925 Designing Architect Part of the Brenham Downtown Historic District, NRHP-listed district
Hermann Hospital[10] Houston Texas Medical Center 1925 Associate Architect
Lamar Hotel[4] Houston 1926 Demolished Designing Architect
Metropolitan Theater[11] Houston 1018 Main Street 1926 Demolished 1973 Supervising Architect Designed by Jordan MacKenzie
Coca-Cola Bottling Plant Houston 707 Live Oak Street 1926 Demolished 2007
Loew's State Theater[12] Houston 1022 Main Street 1927 Demolished 1973 Supervising Architect Designed by Victor E. Johnson
Kirby Building[4] Houston 1927 Designing Architect
Ross S. Sterling House[4] Bay Ridge, Texas 1928 Designing Architect
The Smart Shop Houston 905 Main Street 1928
Sam Houston Hall[13] Houston 801 Bagby 1928 Demolished in 1936 Architect With Kenneth Franzheim. Replaced by the Sam Houston Coliseum. Now the site of the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts.
Scottish Rite Cathedral (Galveston, Texas) Galveston 2128 Church Street 1928 Yes
Worth Hotel and Worth Theater[4] Fort Worth, Texas 1928 Designing Architect With Wyatt C. Hedrick
Krupp and Tuffly Building Houston 901 Main Street 1929
Gulf Building[4] Houston 712 Main Street 1929 Yes Designer With Kenneth Franzheim and J.E.R. Carpenter. Tallest building in Houston from 1929 to 1963. NRHP-listed.
William Lewis Moody III House[14] Galveston 16 South Cedar Lawn 1929 Managing office Design credit to Robert C. Smallwood. Contributing property to the Cedar Lawn Historic District (NRHP-listed)
St. Paul's United Methodist Church[15] Houston Main St. 1930 Designing architect
Forest Hill Abbey mausoleum[4] Kansas City, Missouri 1931 Designing Architect
People's National Bank Building[4] Tyler, Texas 102 N. College Avenue 1932 Yes Designing Architect
Jefferson Davis Hospital[16] Houston 1801 Allen Parkway 1937 Demolished 1999 Designer With Joseph Finger
Sam Houston Coliseum and Houston Music Hall[17] Houston 801 Bagby St 1937 Demolished 1998 Architect
Galveston US Post Office, Custom House and Courthouse[4] Galveston 601 25th Street 1937 Yes NRHP-listed in 2001
San Jacinto Monument[4] La Porte 1 Monument Circle 1938 Located at the Battle of San Jacinto Battlefield National Historic Landmark District
Texas A&M University dormitory complex[4] College Station, Texas 1940 Designing Architect
U.S. Naval Hospital[4] Houston 1945 Demolished Designing Architect Also used as a Veterans Administration Hospital
City National Bank Building[4] Houston 921 Main street 1946-47 Yes Or located at 1001 McKinney Ave. NRHP-listed in 2000.
First National Bank of Goose Creek Baytown 300 West Texas Avenue 1948
Ezekiel W. Cullen Building[4] Houston University of Houston 1950 University of Houston administration building; performance hall
Sakowitz Bros. Department Store[4] Houston 1111 Main Street 1951
Arabia Temple Crippled Children's Hospital[4] Houston 1952 Designing Architect Texas Medical Center
First National Bank building[4] Longview, Texas 1956 Designing Architect
Ben Taub Hospital[4] Houston 1963 Designing Architect With C. A. Johnson and H. E. Maddox.

References edit

  1. ^ Gonzales, J. R. (14 December 2010). "The evolution of the Great Jones Building". Houston Chronicle. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
  2. ^ a b c "Historic Preservation Manual: Courtlandt Place". Retrieved 10 September 2018.
  3. ^ "Link-Lee House". NPGallery Digital Asset Management System. National Park Service. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa Fox, Stephen (13 February 2017). "Finn, Alfred Charles". Texas Handbook Online. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
  5. ^ Fox, Stephen; Stem, Susan Boger (November 1982). "National Register of Historic Places Form: Sterling-Berry House" (PDF). Texas Historic Sites Atlas. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
  6. ^ London, K. L. (2 April 1980). "National Register of Historic Places Form: Woodward House" (PDF). Texas Historic Site Atlas. Retrieved 3 November 2018.
  7. ^ "[I&GN Railroad Hospital - 919 S. Magnolia]". Portal to Texas Online. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  8. ^ Axelrad, Herbert L. (8 July 1982). "National Register of Historic Places Form: State National Bank Building" (PDF). Texas Historic Sites Atlas. pp. 1, 5. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
  9. ^ Fox, Stephen (1 July 2015). "forWARDS: A Driving Tour of Houston's Third Ward, Part 3". Off Cite. Rice Design Alliance. Retrieved 5 November 2018.
  10. ^ Johnston, Marguerite (1991). Houston: The Unknown City, 1836–1946. College Station: Texas A&M University Press. p. 249. ISBN 0-89096-476-9.
  11. ^ Welling (2007), p. 68.
  12. ^ Welling (2007), pp. 74, 82
  13. ^ Fenberg (2011), pp. 140–141.
  14. ^ "National Register of Historic Places Form: Cedar Lawn Historic District" (PDF). Texas Historic Sites Atlas. 22 October 2002. p. 17. Retrieved 2 November 2018.
  15. ^ Henry (1993), pp. 104–105.
  16. ^ Strom (2010), p. 55.
  17. ^ Strom, Stephen R. "A Legacy of Civic Pride: Houston's PWA Buildings" (PDF). Houston History Magazine. Retrieved 26 March 2018.

Bibliography edit

  • Fenberg, Stephen (2011). Unprecedented Power: Jesse Jones, Capitalism, and the Common Good. College Station: Texas A&M University Press.
  • Henry, Jay C. (2009). Architecture in Texas, 1895−1945. Austin: University of Texas Press.
  • Strom, Steven R. (2010). Houston: Lost and Unbuilt. Austin: University of Texas Press.
  • Welling, David (2007). Cinema Houston: From Nickelodeon to Cineplex. Austin: University of Texas Press.