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The building once had a rotating illuminated Gulf sign on the top, which was removed in March 1974. On August 30, 2010 the 27th floor of the building caught fire. The fire quickly escalated from one, to two, to three alarms within 30 minutes as firefighters tried to battle the blaze with low water pressure.
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The building has a total of 800,000 sq ft (74,000 m) of space. On the ground floor the building has a 15,000 sq ft (1,400 m) retail banking center. The banking center has 43 ft (13 m) ceilings, floors and walls made of marble, and large stained glass windows.
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floor in the building's Banking Hall, but keeping the hollows worn into the marble border where generations of customers stood to conduct their banking business. Largely through the efforts of JPMorgan Chase, the former Gulf Building was designated a City of Houston Landmark in 2003. The structure
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responded with 3 alarms and 270 men. The fire was officially extinguished at 11:20 pm. Due to a broken pipe, HFD had to pipe water directly into the building. During the course of extinguishing the blaze, six firefighters were injured. They were taken to a local hospital and later released.
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initiated the restoration of the building in 1989, in what is still considered one of the largest privately funded preservation projects in American history. Recent preservation work included restoring the
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Texas Commerce Bank also owned another history-making skyscraper in downtown Houston, the neighboring 75-story Texas Commerce Tower, completed in 1982, and now known as the
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arranged to have the Gulf Building constructed; it was built in 1929. Designed by architects
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On August 30, 2010, an alarm was called at about 8pm for a fire on the 27th floor. The
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Office buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Texas
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surpassed it in height. The building is the Houston headquarters of
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In 2010, JPMorgan Chase sold the former Gulf Building to the
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sign was erected in May 1966 and dismantled in March 1974.
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Gulf Building (Houston)
JPMorgan Chase Tower (Houston)

Art Deco/Art Moderne
Houston
Texas
Coordinates
29°45′32″N 95°21′49″W / 29.75889°N 95.36361°W / 29.75889; -95.36361
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark
83004436
14042
Art Deco
skyscraper
downtown Houston
Texas
tallest building in Houston
Exxon Building
JPMorgan Chase Bank
Texas Commerce Bank
Jesse H. Jones
Alfred C. Finn
Kenneth Franzheim
J. E. R. Carpenter
Eliel Saarinen's second-place-but-acclaimed entry
Tribune Tower
Gulf Oil
Texas Commerce Bank
terrazzo
National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark

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