The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 71, July 1967 - April, 1968 Page: 229
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The pictures in the order of appearance are as follows:
i. The east side of Main Street, between Congress and Preston
avenues, c. 1867. The city's first three-story building, on the left in
the row of five, was built in 1859 by William Van Alstyne, but
its dominance was brief. J. R. Morris soon built the city's first
four-story building, the one in the center, and the first with an iron
front.
2. One of Houston's mule-drawn streetcars, c. 1890o, when there
were fifty mules to pull twenty cars-but not for much longer. The
mules were replaced by electricity in 1893.
3. Main Street, looking north from Preston Avenue, in 1885. The
street was still either a hog-root of mud or a dust bin, but later that
year it was finally covered for the first time.
4. The yards at the Southern Pacific Lines' Grand Central Depot
in 1894, when cotton was to Houston what oil was to become; the
four-story structure with the corbeled turret, at the right, is the old
Lawler Hotel.
5. Looking south on Main Street in 191o, when the street still
ended at Buffalo Bayou, from the point where the Main Street
bridge now spans the bayou. This is part of the site of the new Allen's
Landing Park.
6. Sweeney and Coombs Opera House, on Fannin Street opposite
the courthouse, which opened in 1890. Though the structure still
stands, it has been refaced and altered to such a point that the
building pictured is only a memory.
7. The Houston Cotton Exchange Building, though replaced by
a sixteen-story structure at a new location in 1924, is the only old
Houston building pictured in this photographic essay that still stands.
The first four stories were built in 1884; the fifth was added many
years later.
8. The City Hall and Market House, c. 1906. The last of four
such structures on the site, it was razed half a century later and
the block, called Old Market Square, is now a parking lot.
9. The Rice Hotel, on the 1837-1839 site of the capitol of the
Republic of Texas, c. 191o. Called the Capitol Hotel when it opened229
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