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City National Bank Building (Houston)

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the building's infrastructure. The McKinney Street side of the building takes the whole block running from Main Street to Fannin Street, running 250 feet along that side. Instead of a rectangular profile, the top floors form the smallest tier, and each tier grows broader until the building's base, which occupies the whole lot. The Main Street side of the building has a narrow profile. The building also featured modern infrastructure, including eight high-speed elevators, and a kind of modular flooring which hid the conduits.
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When the building first opened, the bank leased the retail frontage to Corrigan's Jewelry, while the bank occupied the rest of the ground space, but with ceilings raised to a third floor elevation. The bank also let 19 floors of the upper floors as office space. The top two floors are reserved for
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The City National Bank Building leased almost all of its space by the time it had opened. Among it tenants were well-known national companies such as
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in 1947. City National Bank was the name of the Houston bank which descended from Guaranty Trust Company, the original bank founded by
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at the 6th floor. The building has direct access to the Houston underground pedestrian system.
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A parking garage was added in 1999, which is attached to the original building via a
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City National Bank operated out of the ground floor lobby for about a decade.
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U.S. National Register of Historic Places

City National Bank Building (Houston) is located in Houston Downtown
City National Bank Building (Houston) is located in Texas
City National Bank Building (Houston) is located in the United States
Houston, Texas
29°45′24.8″N 95°21′51.5″W / 29.756889°N 95.364306°W / 29.756889; -95.364306
Alfred C. Finn
Moderne
00000291
Houston
Texas
National Register of Historic Places
Alfred C. Finn
James Anderson Elkins, Sr.
Braniff
DuPont
Monsanto
Phillips Petroleum
skyway
National Register of Historic Places listings in Harris County, Texas
"National Register Information System"
National Register of Historic Places
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"National Register Listings"




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