Houston Chronicle Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===801 Texas Avenue=== [[File:HoustonChronHQ.JPG|thumb|''Houston Chronicle'' headquarters in [[Downtown Houston]] before its demolition]] The ''Houston Chronicle'' building{{citation needed|date=May 2013}} in [[Downtown Houston]] was the headquarters of the ''Houston Chronicle''.<ref>"[http://www.hearst.com/newspapers/houston-chronicle.php HOUSTON CHRONICLE]." [[Hearst Corporation]]. Retrieved May 5, 2013. "801 Texas Avenue Houston, TX 77002"</ref> The facility included a loading dock, office space, a press room, and production areas. It had ten stories above ground and three stories below ground. The printing presses used by the newspaper spanned three stories.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chron.com/banners/i/insidestory/history/tour6.html |title=Printing |access-date=January 27, 2011 |work=Houston Chronicle Tour |publisher=Houston Chronicle, Inc. |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110603094505/http://www.chron.com/banners/i/insidestory/history/tour6.html |archive-date=June 3, 2011 }} ()</ref><!--Chron still utilizes ones in Southwest facility--> The presses were two stories below ground and one above. In the Downtown facility, the presses there were decommissioned in the late 2000s.{{citation needed|date=March 2012}} The newsroom within the facility had [[Open plan#Office spaces|bull-pen style]] offices with a few private cubicles and offices on the edges.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chron.com/banners/i/insidestory/history/tour2.html |title=Newsroom |access-date=January 27, 2011 |work=Houston Chronicle Tour |publisher=Houston Chronicle, Inc. |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080416034609/http://www.chron.com/banners/i/insidestory/history/tour2.html |archive-date=April 16, 2008 }} ()</ref> The facility was connected to the downtown [[Houston tunnel system]].<ref name="tunnel-2021">{{cite web | url=https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/heights-news/article/Downtown-Houston-tunnels-unkind-to-wheelchair-1776733.php | title=Downtown Houston tunnels unkind to wheelchair users | work=Chron.com | date=August 18, 2008 | accessdate=July 22, 2021 | author=Murphy, Bill | quote=At the northern end of today's underground maze, the tunnels provide access to the Chase Tower, the Houston Chronicle and 717 Texas Avenue (formerly known as the Calpine Tower).}}</ref> Turner wrote that "in recent decades," 801 Texas Avenue "offered viewers an architectural visage of unadorned boxiness.... An accretion of five buildings made into one, it featured a maze of corridors, cul-de-sacs and steps that seemed to spring on strollers at the most unexpected times."<ref name=TurnerGhosts/> The facility, which was 106 years old in 2016, was originally four separate structures, which were joined together to make one building.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.chron.com/banners/i/insidestory/history/tour1.html |title=Chronicle Building |access-date=January 27, 2011 |work=Houston Chronicle Tour |publisher=Houston Chronicle, Inc. |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080203044850/http://www.chron.com/banners/i/insidestory/history/tour1.html |archive-date=February 3, 2008 }}</ref> [[Jesse H. Jones]] erected the first ''Chronicle'' building, a narrow and long structure clad in granite, on the corner of Travis Street and Texas Avenue in 1910. The second building, the Majestic Theater, was built west of the ''Chronicle'' building. The second building built by Jones opened in 1910. In 1918, the third Jones building, Milam Building, opened west of the theater. An annex was built on the north side of the main building in 1938 and gained a fifth floor in the 1960s. The fifth building was a production plant, built north of the original four buildings. They were joined together in a major renovation and modernisation project, wjhich was completed in the late 1960s.<ref name=TurnerGhosts/> On April 25, 2017, it was imploded and reduced to rubble.<ref>{{cite news|author=Hlavaty, Craig|url=http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/The-old-Houston-Chronicle-building-is-officially-11096916.php|title=The old Houston Chronicle building is officially gone|newspaper=Houston Chronicle|date=April 25, 2017|access-date=August 16, 2017}}</ref> The site is now occupied by the Texas Tower. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. 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