National Register Listing
Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 2019.
Petroleum Building
a.k.a. Great Southwest Building
1314 Texas Avenue, Houston, TX Local significance of the building: Architecture; Commerce
Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 2019.
About National Register Listings
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.
Texas has been a major oil-producing state for over a century. The first big oil discovery in Texas was the Spindletop field near Beaumont in 1901, which set off a massive oil boom that transformed the state's economy and made Texas one of the wealthiest states in the country.