Paul Building

Houston, United States

Open to visitors

The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.

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The Paul Building is a eight-story high-rise office building completed in 1907 in Houston, Texas, designed in the Chicago School style. Built of brown brick with load-bearing walls and terra cotta ornamentation—including cartouches bearing a raised "P" for original owner Allen Paul—the structure was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. Though designed as an office building, it housed the United States District Court in 1910 and subsequently became a favored address for attorneys owing to its proximity to the county courthouse. Its diverse tenants over the decades have included a newspaper and the Y.M.C.A. The building has been known by several names, including the Hoffman Building (from 1918) and the Republic Building (from 1923).