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Rice Lofts
The Rice Lofts, formerly the Rice Hotel, is a historic building at 909 Texas Avenue in Downtown Houston, Texas, United States. The current building is the third to occupy the site. It was completed in 1913 on the site of the former Capitol building of the Republic of Texas, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The old Capitol building was operated as a hotel until it was torn down and replaced by a five-story hotel around 1881. The 1913 Rice Hotel building underwent two major expansions in 1925 and 1958, as well as several remodelings. It continued to operate as a hotel before finally shutting down in 1977. The Rice was renovated and turned into apartments in 1998 after twenty-one years of standing unused.
==Capitol Building==
When Augustus Allen and John Kirby Allen commissioned the first survey of Houston in the fall of 1836, they made plans to set aside property for use by the Republic of Texas. Eventually they chose property on the south side of Texas Avenue between Travis and Main Street. They also agreed to construct a capitol building for the Texas government, and leased the building on easy terms.〔McComb, David G., Houston: a history (1981, revised). University of Texas Press: Austin, Texas, p.14-15.〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work = hotelonline.com )〕
Republic of Texas used this as its capitol building from 1837 to 1839, and again from 1842 to 1845. In 1841, Mr. M. Norwood leased the building from the Allen Brothers, and ran it as the Capitol Hotel. After the Texas government left Houston again, Augustus Allen resumed leasing the building to various hotel operators. R.S. Blount bought the property in 1857.〔Elliot, Margie C. and Charles D Maynard, Jr (Fall 1992-Winter 1993). 〕〔It is not clear whether Augustus or Charlotte owned the property just before it was sold in 1857. John Kirby Allen had died in 1838 without a will. After 1843, there was a dispute about his estate, which led to a permanent estrangement between Augustus and Charlotte Allen. Augustus left Houston in 1852. Amelia W. Williams, "ALLEN, AUGUSTUS CHAPMAN," Handbook of Texas Online (http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fal17), accessed November 17, 2014. Uploaded on June 9, 2010. Published by the Texas State Historical Association.〕 There were various hotel operators between 1857 and 1881 with a few name changes (Houston House and Barnes House).〔
Anson Jones, the last president of the Republic of Texas, committed suicide at the hotel in 1858.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=Landmarks and Monuments, 174 Years of Historic Houston )〕〔Johnston, Marguerite (1991). Texas A&M University Press: College Station, Texas, p. 59. ISBN 0-89096-476-9.〕
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