Tribeca Lofts (Clarke and Courts Building)

Tribeca Lofts (Clarke and Courts Building)

Tribeca Lofts (Clarke and Courts Building) Photograph by Gerald Moorhead
Photo 2 of Tribeca Lofts (Clarke and Courts Building)
1936, Joseph Finger. 1210 W. Clay Ave.

The government and bank document printing company of Clarke and Courts entered the suburban era when it moved its headquarters from downtown Galveston (
GV5) to this one-story, cast-in-place concrete commercial printing plant, one of the highlights of modernistic architecture in Houston. Finger contrasted the plant's horizontal band of steel-sash windows, grouped under a continuous parapet marked with triple speed lines, with the stout pylon tower above the front entrance. Architecturally integrated graphics are the building's chief decorative device. In 1993, the building underwent a certified rehabilitation when it was transformed into apartments by developer Randall Davis.

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