Strand Historic District, Heidenheimer Building, 2127 Mechanic Street,...
Survey number: HABS TX-3296-H National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 70000748
Production. Tin smelting. Tin is recovered from smelting furnace smoke...
Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More
Powhatan Hotel, 3427 Avenue O, Galveston, Galveston County, TX
Significance: This is probably one of the oldest residences in Galveston. It is thought to have been erected in 1847 by John S. Sydnor, an early Galveston mayor and auction merchant, and is a good example of th... More
Edward T. Austin House, 1502 Market Street (Avenue D), Galveston, Galv...
Survey number: HABS TX-261 Building/structure dates: 1868 Initial Construction
Grace Episcopal Church, 1115 Thirty-sixth Street, Galveston, Galveston...
Survey number: HABS TX-3299 Public domain photograph of church architecture, religious building, monument, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Henry Rosenberg House, 1306 Market Street, Galveston, Galveston County...
Significance: Henry Rosenberg was a leading merchant and philanthropist of Galveston, a man of great civic enterprise and a great benefactor to the city. His home is representative of the transition from the Gr... More
Henry Rosenberg House, 1306 Market Street, Galveston, Galveston County...
Significance: Henry Rosenberg was a leading merchant and philanthropist of Galveston, a man of great civic enterprise and a great benefactor to the city. His home is representative of the transition from the Gr... More
John C. Trube House, 1621-27 Sealy Avenue, Galveston, Galveston County...
Significance: The house is representative of the Romantic Revival style in vogue at the end of the 19th century. Alfred Muller, the architect, was proficient in this German eclectic style and designed two other... More
High Island Bridge Tender's Station, Residence, State Highway 124 Cros...
Field notes with main record TX-3404. Significance: Designed by the Galveston District COE in 1933 in conjunction with planning efforts for the construction of the New Orleans, Louisiana to Corpus Christi, Texa... More
George Sealy House, 2424 Broadway, Galveston, Galveston County, TX
Significance: The builder of the house, George Sealy, was an outstanding Galveston businessman in the second half of the 19th century. He accumulated considerable wealth and was associated with numerous Galvest... More
Galveston Baggage & Cordage Factory, Winnie Street, Galveston, Galvest...
Significance: At the time of its erection, 1888, this factory was the only bagging mill in Texas and was possibly the only such factory ever erected in the state. Its purpose was to produce woven jute bagging, ... More
St. Mary's Cathedral, Twenty-first Street & Church Avenue, Galveston, ...
Significance: The Cathedral is the oldest religious structure in Galveston and one of the earliest buildings still standing in the city. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-171 Surve... More
U. S. Custom House, Twentieth & Post Office Streets, Galveston, Galves...
Significance: The Custom House building, an outstanding example of the Classical Revival style, is architecturally distinguished and important historically. Galveston was the leading seaport and commercial city... More
First Presbyterian Church, Church & Nineteenth Streets, Galveston, Gal...
Significance: An outstanding example of the Norman phase of the Romanesque Revival style, prevalent in this country in the second half of the nineteenth century, the building is architecturally distinguished bo... More
Fort Point District Boat Yard, Pattern Warehouse, 2000 Fort Point Road...
Significance: Designed by the U.S. Engineer Office of Galveston, Texas in 1943 and constructed the following year by the Esslinger-Misch Company of Texas City, Texas for approximately $100,500, the Fort Point D... More
Fort Point District Boat Yard, Pattern Warehouse, 2000 Fort Point Road...
Significance: Designed by the U.S. Engineer Office of Galveston, Texas in 1943 and constructed the following year by the Esslinger-Misch Company of Texas City, Texas for approximately $100,500, the Fort Point D... More
Fort Point District Boat Yard, Pattern Warehouse, 2000 Fort Point Road...
Significance: Designed by the U.S. Engineer Office of Galveston, Texas in 1943 and constructed the following year by the Esslinger-Misch Company of Texas City, Texas for approximately $100,500, the Fort Point D... More
Fort Point District Boat Yard, Pattern Warehouse, 2000 Fort Point Road...
Significance: Designed by the U.S. Engineer Office of Galveston, Texas in 1943 and constructed the following year by the Esslinger-Misch Company of Texas City, Texas for approximately $100,500, the Fort Point D... More
Fort Point District Boat Yard, Pattern Warehouse, 2000 Fort Point Road...
Significance: Designed by the U.S. Engineer Office of Galveston, Texas in 1943 and constructed the following year by the Esslinger-Misch Company of Texas City, Texas for approximately $100,500, the Fort Point D... More
High Island Bridge Tender's Station, State Highway 124 Crossing of Mud...
Significance: Designed and built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston district between 1933-36 in conjunction with the construction of the Louisiana-Texas (LA-TEX) intracoastal waterway project, the H... More
James Mareau Brown House, 2328 Broadway, Galveston, Galveston County, ...
Significance: Brown established the largest wholesale hardware business in the southwest. He was also engaged in other significant business ventures in Galveston. His house is believed to have been erected in 1... More
James Mareau Brown House, 2328 Broadway, Galveston, Galveston County, ...
Significance: Brown established the largest wholesale hardware business in the southwest. He was also engaged in other significant business ventures in Galveston. His house is believed to have been erected in 1... More
James Mareau Brown House, 2328 Broadway, Galveston, Galveston County, ...
Significance: Brown established the largest wholesale hardware business in the southwest. He was also engaged in other significant business ventures in Galveston. His house is believed to have been erected in 1... More
Production. Tin smelting. This young technician is using a laboratory ...
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Production. Tin smelting. This young technician is using a laboratory ...
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Henry Rosenberg House, 1306 Market Street, Galveston, Galveston County...
Significance: Henry Rosenberg was a leading merchant and philanthropist of Galveston, a man of great civic enterprise and a great benefactor to the city. His home is representative of the transition from the Gr... More
John C. Trube House, 1621-27 Sealy Avenue, Galveston, Galveston County...
Significance: The house is representative of the Romantic Revival style in vogue at the end of the 19th century. Alfred Muller, the architect, was proficient in this German eclectic style and designed two other... More
Strand Historic District, Leon & H. Blum Building, 2310-2328 Mechanic ...
Survey number: HABS TX-3296-D National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 70000748
Williams-Tucker House, 3601 Avenue P, Galveston, Galveston County, TX
Significance: This building is one of the few structures of the first years of Galveston that stands today. It is important because of its age, but more so because of its owner, Samuel May Williams. He was an i... More
High Island Bridge Tender's Station, Residence, State Highway 124 Cros...
Field notes with main record TX-3404. Significance: Designed by the Galveston District COE in 1933 in conjunction with planning efforts for the construction of the New Orleans, Louisiana to Corpus Christi, Texa... More
High Island Bridge Tender's Station, Residence, State Highway 124 Cros...
Field notes with main record TX-3404. Significance: Designed by the Galveston District COE in 1933 in conjunction with planning efforts for the construction of the New Orleans, Louisiana to Corpus Christi, Texa... More
High Island Bridge Tender's Station, Power House, State Highway 124 Cr...
Field notes with main record TX-3404. Significance: Designed by the Galveston District COE in 1933 in conjunction with planning efforts for the construction of the New Orleans, Louisiana to Corpus Christi, Texa... More
High Island Bridge Tender's Station, Power House, State Highway 124 Cr...
Field notes with main record TX-3404. Significance: Designed by the Galveston District COE in 1933 in conjunction with planning efforts for the construction of the New Orleans, Louisiana to Corpus Christi, Texa... More
High Island Bridge Tender's Station, Power House, State Highway 124 Cr...
Field notes with main record TX-3404. Significance: Designed by the Galveston District COE in 1933 in conjunction with planning efforts for the construction of the New Orleans, Louisiana to Corpus Christi, Texa... More
Michel B. Menard House, 1603 Thirty-third Street, Galveston, Galveston...
Significance: Michel Menard was an early Texas pioneer, an important statesman of the Republic and the founder and developed of Galveston city, the leading commercial center for all of Texas throughout the nine... More
Galveston Causeway, Spanning Galveston Bay parallel to I-45, Galveston...
Significance: This reinforced concrete viaduct spans more than two miles between Galveston Island and the Texas mainland. Its original twenty-eight concrete arches and steel draw span were the first Galveston ... More
Wilbur F. Cherry House, 1602 Church Street, Galveston, Galveston Count...
Significance: This house represents the typical Greek Revival residence of the early days of Galveston. Cherry, the original owner of the dwelling, founded what is today the oldest newspaper in Texas. Survey n... More
Colonel Walter Gresham House, 1402 Broadway, Galveston, Galveston Coun...
Significance: This building was erected for Walter Gresham, a prominent historical figure of Galveston, a noted lawyer, Texas legislator and representative of the 53rd Congress. The building itself is architect... More
Strand Historic District, Greenleve, Block & Company Building, 2310-23...
Significance: This large commercial structure was designed by one of Texas' most prominent architects for Greenleve and Block, one of the three largest wholesale dry-goods firms in Galveston. Survey number: HA... More
High Island Bridge Tender's Station, State Highway 124 Crossing of Mud...
Significance: Designed and built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston district between 1933-36 in conjunction with the construction of the Louisiana-Texas (LA-TEX) intracoastal waterway project, the H... More
High Island Bridge Tender's Station, State Highway 124 Crossing of Mud...
Significance: Designed and built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston district between 1933-36 in conjunction with the construction of the Louisiana-Texas (LA-TEX) intracoastal waterway project, the H... More
Allen Lewis House, 2328 Avenue G (moved from Avenue J & Twenty-fifth S...
Survey number: HABS TX-256 Building/structure dates: after 1840 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1870
George Sealy Carriage House, 2424 Broadway, Galveston, Galveston Count...
Survey number: HABS TX-298-A Public domain photograph - city, downtown, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Strand Historic District, Thomas Jefferson League Building, 2301-2307 ...
Significance: The Renaissance Revival style structure represents one of many building types erected in the second half of the nineteenth century which used iron arcades on the first floor. Unprocessed Field no... More
Production. Tin smelting. Storage piles of slag at a Southern tin smel...
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Production. Tin smelting. Removing slag after tapping a furnace in a S...
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Production. Tin smelting. "Bars" of pure tin are trimmed and cleaned b...
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High Island Bridge Tender's Station, Residence, State Highway 124 Cros...
Field notes with main record TX-3404. Significance: Designed by the Galveston District COE in 1933 in conjunction with planning efforts for the construction of the New Orleans, Louisiana to Corpus Christi, Texa... More
High Island Bridge Tender's Station, Power House, State Highway 124 Cr...
Field notes with main record TX-3404. Significance: Designed by the Galveston District COE in 1933 in conjunction with planning efforts for the construction of the New Orleans, Louisiana to Corpus Christi, Texa... More
Michel B. Menard House, 1603 Thirty-third Street, Galveston, Galveston...
Significance: Michel Menard was an early Texas pioneer, an important statesman of the Republic and the founder and developed of Galveston city, the leading commercial center for all of Texas throughout the nine... More
Michel B. Menard House, 1603 Thirty-third Street, Galveston, Galveston...
Significance: Michel Menard was an early Texas pioneer, an important statesman of the Republic and the founder and developed of Galveston city, the leading commercial center for all of Texas throughout the nine... More
Hendley Building, 2000-2016 Strand, Galveston, Galveston County, TX
Significance: "Hendley's Block," consisting of four adjoining buildings, is the oldest surviving commercial structure on the Strand, the heart of old Galveston commercial quarter (See Strand Historic District -... More
M. L. Moody House, Avenue M & Twenty-third Street, Galveston, Galvesto...
Survey number: HABS TX-254 Building/structure dates: 1860 Initial Construction
U. S. Custom House, Twentieth & Post Office Streets, Galveston, Galves...
Significance: The Custom House building, an outstanding example of the Classical Revival style, is architecturally distinguished and important historically. Galveston was the leading seaport and commercial city... More
U. S. Custom House, Twentieth & Post Office Streets, Galveston, Galves...
Significance: The Custom House building, an outstanding example of the Classical Revival style, is architecturally distinguished and important historically. Galveston was the leading seaport and commercial city... More
First Presbyterian Church, Church & Nineteenth Streets, Galveston, Gal...
Significance: An outstanding example of the Norman phase of the Romanesque Revival style, prevalent in this country in the second half of the nineteenth century, the building is architecturally distinguished bo... More
George Ball House, 1405 Twenty-fourth Street, Galveston, Galveston Cou...
Significance: George Ball was a prominent Galveston business man, financier and philanthropist. The original house was redone in the early 1880s and represents the interpretation of the late Greek Revival style... More
Fort Point District Boat Yard, Pattern Warehouse, 2000 Fort Point Road...
Significance: Designed by the U.S. Engineer Office of Galveston, Texas in 1943 and constructed the following year by the Esslinger-Misch Company of Texas City, Texas for approximately $100,500, the Fort Point D... More
Fort Point District Boat Yard, Pattern Warehouse, 2000 Fort Point Road...
Significance: Designed by the U.S. Engineer Office of Galveston, Texas in 1943 and constructed the following year by the Esslinger-Misch Company of Texas City, Texas for approximately $100,500, the Fort Point D... More
Trinity Episcopal Church, 708 Twenty-second Street, Galveston, Galvest...
Significance: The Trinity Church represents one of Galveston's earliest surviving buildings, dating from 1855, and is a notable example of the English Gothic style parish church. Unprocessed Field note materia... More
Colonel Walter Gresham House, 1402 Broadway, Galveston, Galveston Coun...
Significance: This building was erected for Walter Gresham, a prominent historical figure of Galveston, a noted lawyer, Texas legislator and representative of the 53rd Congress. The building itself is architect... More
High Island Bridge Tender's Station, State Highway 124 Crossing of Mud...
Significance: Designed and built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston district between 1933-36 in conjunction with the construction of the Louisiana-Texas (LA-TEX) intracoastal waterway project, the H... More
James Mareau Brown House, 2328 Broadway, Galveston, Galveston County, ...
Significance: Brown established the largest wholesale hardware business in the southwest. He was also engaged in other significant business ventures in Galveston. His house is believed to have been erected in 1... More
Production. Tin smelting. Long tubes carry all the smoke thrown off by...
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Production. Tin smelting. Tapping the furnace of a Southern tin smelte...
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Production. Tin smelting. A laboratory assistant at a Southern tin sme...
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Production. Tin smelting. Two laboratory assistants at a Southern tin ...
Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More
Production. Tin smelting. A sample of slag from one of the furnaces of...
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Production. Tin smelting. Unstacking bags of raw tin ore from South Am...
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Galveston, Texas. Two sailors walking along the seawall
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Galveston, Texas. Hitching post and parking meter
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Strand Historic District, Ufford Building, 303-309 Twenty-third Street...
Significance: One of the few remaining buildings erected in Galveston before the Civil War, the Ufford Building was built by John Brown for Edmund L. Ufford. The building was started on October 23, 1860 and com... More
Grace Episcopal Church, 1115 Thirty-sixth Street, Galveston, Galveston...
Survey number: HABS TX-3299 Public domain photograph of church architecture, religious building, monument, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Turner Hall, 2015 Avenue I, Galveston, Galveston County, TX
Survey number: HABS TX-21 Building/structure dates: 1858 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1880 Subsequent Work
High Island Bridge Tender's Station, Residence, State Highway 124 Cros...
Field notes with main record TX-3404. Significance: Designed by the Galveston District COE in 1933 in conjunction with planning efforts for the construction of the New Orleans, Louisiana to Corpus Christi, Texa... More
High Island Bridge Tender's Station, Residence, State Highway 124 Cros...
Field notes with main record TX-3404. Significance: Designed by the Galveston District COE in 1933 in conjunction with planning efforts for the construction of the New Orleans, Louisiana to Corpus Christi, Texa... More
High Island Bridge Tender's Station, Residence, State Highway 124 Cros...
Field notes with main record TX-3404. Significance: Designed by the Galveston District COE in 1933 in conjunction with planning efforts for the construction of the New Orleans, Louisiana to Corpus Christi, Texa... More
High Island Bridge Tender's Station, Residence, State Highway 124 Cros...
Field notes with main record TX-3404. Significance: Designed by the Galveston District COE in 1933 in conjunction with planning efforts for the construction of the New Orleans, Louisiana to Corpus Christi, Texa... More
Trueheart-Adriance Building, 212 Twenty-second Street, Galveston, Galv...
Significance: The H. M. Trueheart Company was one of the oldest and largest real estate firms in Texas during the nineteenth century and the building is architecturally significant as an excellent work of desig... More
Trueheart-Adriance Building, 212 Twenty-second Street, Galveston, Galv...
Significance: The H. M. Trueheart Company was one of the oldest and largest real estate firms in Texas during the nineteenth century and the building is architecturally significant as an excellent work of desig... More
St. Mary's Cathedral, Twenty-first Street & Church Avenue, Galveston, ...
Significance: The Cathedral is the oldest religious structure in Galveston and one of the earliest buildings still standing in the city. Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-171 Surve... More
George Ball House, 1405 Twenty-fourth Street, Galveston, Galveston Cou...
Significance: George Ball was a prominent Galveston business man, financier and philanthropist. The original house was redone in the early 1880s and represents the interpretation of the late Greek Revival style... More
Fort Point District Boat Yard, Pattern Warehouse, 2000 Fort Point Road...
Significance: Designed by the U.S. Engineer Office of Galveston, Texas in 1943 and constructed the following year by the Esslinger-Misch Company of Texas City, Texas for approximately $100,500, the Fort Point D... More
Fort Point District Boat Yard, Pattern Warehouse, 2000 Fort Point Road...
Significance: Designed by the U.S. Engineer Office of Galveston, Texas in 1943 and constructed the following year by the Esslinger-Misch Company of Texas City, Texas for approximately $100,500, the Fort Point D... More
Eaton Memorial Chapel of Trinity Episcopal Church, 710 Twenty-second S...
Significance: The building is a memorial to Galveston's pioneer Protestant missionary and good example of the Gothic Revival style. Survey number: HABS TX-295
Colonel Walter Gresham House, 1402 Broadway, Galveston, Galveston Coun...
Significance: This building was erected for Walter Gresham, a prominent historical figure of Galveston, a noted lawyer, Texas legislator and representative of the 53rd Congress. The building itself is architect... More
Colonel Walter Gresham House, 1402 Broadway, Galveston, Galveston Coun...
Significance: This building was erected for Walter Gresham, a prominent historical figure of Galveston, a noted lawyer, Texas legislator and representative of the 53rd Congress. The building itself is architect... More
Colonel Walter Gresham House, 1402 Broadway, Galveston, Galveston Coun...
Significance: This building was erected for Walter Gresham, a prominent historical figure of Galveston, a noted lawyer, Texas legislator and representative of the 53rd Congress. The building itself is architect... More
Sydnor-Heidenheimer Building, 1602 Sealy Street, Galveston, Galveston ...
Significance: John Sydnor, original owner of the house, was an important figure in early Galveston history. He was mayor of the city, commission merchant and auctioneer. Sampson Heidenheimer, who later made var... More
High Island Bridge Tender's Station, State Highway 124 Crossing of Mud...
Significance: Designed and built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Galveston district between 1933-36 in conjunction with the construction of the Louisiana-Texas (LA-TEX) intracoastal waterway project, the H... More
James Mareau Brown House, 2328 Broadway, Galveston, Galveston County, ...
Significance: Brown established the largest wholesale hardware business in the southwest. He was also engaged in other significant business ventures in Galveston. His house is believed to have been erected in 1... More
James Mareau Brown House, 2328 Broadway, Galveston, Galveston County, ...
Significance: Brown established the largest wholesale hardware business in the southwest. He was also engaged in other significant business ventures in Galveston. His house is believed to have been erected in 1... More
Strand Historic District, Rosenberg Building, 2309-2311 Strand, Galves...
Survey number: HABS TX-3296-M National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 70000748
Production. Tin smelting. "Pot boilers" of a Southern tin smelter in w...
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A black and white photo of a man on a skateboard. Office of War Inform...
Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More
Galveston, Texas. Picket fence. Farm Security Administartion 1930s pub...
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Powhatan Hotel, 3427 Avenue O, Galveston, Galveston County, TX
Significance: This is probably one of the oldest residences in Galveston. It is thought to have been erected in 1847 by John S. Sydnor, an early Galveston mayor and auction merchant, and is a good example of th... More
Henry Rosenberg House, 1306 Market Street, Galveston, Galveston County...
Significance: Henry Rosenberg was a leading merchant and philanthropist of Galveston, a man of great civic enterprise and a great benefactor to the city. His home is representative of the transition from the Gr... More
Henry Rosenberg House, 1306 Market Street, Galveston, Galveston County...
Significance: Henry Rosenberg was a leading merchant and philanthropist of Galveston, a man of great civic enterprise and a great benefactor to the city. His home is representative of the transition from the Gr... More
Turner Hall, 2015 Avenue I, Galveston, Galveston County, TX
Survey number: HABS TX-21 Building/structure dates: 1858 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 1880 Subsequent Work