Oriental Textile Mill
2201 Lawrence St., Houston, TXBuilt originally for A. R. Morey and Company, mattress manufacturing, in 1893-94; was one of the first industrial complexes in Houston Heights; is the last of those early structures remaining, and is still in use. Best known as the site of Oriental Textile Mill; this mill even had a complex of small homes for many of its workers, which have been razed; employed many residents of the western section of the Heights.
Local significance of the building:Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
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