Cheek-Neal Coffee Company Building
a.k.a. Cheek-Neal Coffee Warehouse
2017 Preston, Houston, TXThe 1917 Cheek-Neal Coffee Company Building at 2017 Preston in Houston, Texas, was designed by Houston architects Joseph Finger and James Ruskin Bailey as a regional coffee processing facility for the developers of the Maxwell House brand. The company's Houston building was one of seven similar multi-story buildings across the country where the company roasted, blended, packaged, and shipped coffee nationwide. The Cheek-Neal Coffee Company Building is nominated to the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion A in the area of Industry, at the local level of significance. The period of significance is 1917-1947, beginning at the time of construction through the year the building served as a coffee processing facility.
Local significance of the building:Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 2016.
The National Register of Historic Places is the official list of the Nation’s historic places worthy of preservation. Authorized by the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, the National Park Service’s National Register of Historic Places is part of a national program to coordinate and support public and private efforts to identify, evaluate, and protect America’s historic and archeological resources.