Everything that was here
- 1981–present
Dallas County Administration BuildingGovernment Building
Dallas County renovated the lower five floors for offices after buying the building in 1977.
See the map in 1982 → - Date unknown
Southern Rock Island Plow CompanyFactory
The Rock Island Plow Company bought the land in 1894 and built a five-story Texas division building about four years later.
- until 1970
Texas School Book DepositoryOther
A plow company's warehouse became a book depository, then the place where history turned in 1963.
See the map in 1970 → - 1940–1961
John Sexton & Co. (Sexton Foods)Other
A grocery wholesaler that leased the building until November 1961.
See the map in 1941 →
Nearby history
Old Red Courthouse
100 S Houston St · 161 m away
A red sandstone courthouse built after four earlier ones on the site burned.
Dallas Public Library (temporary home)
400 S Houston St · 377 m away
In 1954 the building served as a temporary library while the city built a new central library.
The Starck Club
703 McKinney Ave · 454 m away
A Philippe Starck-designed nightclub where ecstasy was sold legally over the bar until 1985, with Stevie Nicks among the
Dallas Times Herald Building
1101 Pacific Ave · 530 m away
The mid-century home of an afternoon newspaper that closed in 1991; the building was demolished two years later.
Dallas Morning News Building (Young Street)
508 Young St · 550 m away
The newspaper's Young Street complex housed its operations for about six decades before the paper left in 2017.
Reunion Arena
777 Sports St · 688 m away
The arena where the Mavericks and Stars played for two decades, and where Reagan accepted the 1984 nomination.
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