Talk:Humble Oil Building

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Did you know... that the Humble Oil Building was once the largest office building in Houston, and was the first office building in the city with central air conditioning?

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File:Humble Tower.jpg to appear as POTD edit

Latest comment: 10 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:Humble Tower.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on January 14, 2014. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2014-01-14. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. Thanks! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:07, 2 January 2014 (UTC)Reply

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The Humble Oil Building in Houston, Texas, was completed by the Humble Oil and Refining Company in 1921. A tower, visible to the right, was added fifteen years later. Humble Oil used this building as their headquarters until 1963. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999, the building now houses a Courtyard by Marriott hotel, as well as apartments and retail space.Photograph: Jujutacular

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Original building and tower edit

Latest comment: 10 years ago4 comments2 people in discussion

I find this article very confusing. It refers to "the building", but there are two buildings. Which one is now a Courtyard Hotel? What is the other building being used as? Are they both part of th Courtyard Hotel? Also the photo (a featured picture apparently) doesn't seem to me to make clear at all that there are even two buildings.

Is one building listed on the NRHP or both? Are the architects listed the designers of the original building? Who designed the tower? Candleabracadabra (talk) 21:47, 4 January 2014 (UTC)Reply

I have made a couple changes which hopefully makes it more clear. The "building" refers to the entire structure, including the 17-story tower. The tower was added in 1936. The entire building now consists of the hotel, apartments, parking garage, and ground-level retail. I don't have any information on exactly how it is broken down. Let me know if this helps. Jujutacular (talk) 01:05, 5 January 2014 (UTC)Reply

Okay, thanks. Candleabracadabra (talk) 01:44, 5 January 2014 (UTC)Reply

And just to clarify, yes the tower is a part of the building, not at all separated. None of the sources refer to it as a "complex" so I'm not sure that that is appropriate. I'll defer to you if you see fit to make any further changes. Thank you for bringing the issue up. Jujutacular (talk) 03:14, 5 January 2014 (UTC)Reply

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