Twilight Blue Hour Shot of the Cotton Exchange Building in Downtown Houston - Harris County Texas Acrylic Print

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I truly love photographing old structures like the Cotton Exchange Building in Downtown Houston since it affords me the opportunity to do some research and learn historical facts about old businesses, architecture and the people that activated Houston's economy in the early days. In this case I decided to wake up an hour earlier so I could get to Downtown Houston at the right time to photograph the Victorian Classical Revival architecture of this jewel of preservation. Let's hope no real estate developer tears it down. I leave you with a bit of history taken from waymarking.com:

Jared Groce came to Texas in 1821 with over 100 slaves and began growing cotton on his plantation near Hempstead. Cotton was Houston’s primary commodity before the discovery of oil, and many of the earliest fortunes in Houston arose from the cotton industry.
Houston’s Board of Trade organized a Cotton Exchange in 1874, signifying cot...

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