January 29, 2018

Sunset Coffee Building Open Again

Sunset Coffee Building, a historic building located at Allen's Landing, at 1019 Commerce St., Houston, after sitting empty for decades, is now open again for business, and with it, a crucial piece of Houston's history is now revived.
Brothers John Kirby Allen and Augustus Chapman Allen arrived in 1836 and purchased 6,642 acres to establish a city, named after General Sam Houston. The site, at the confluence of Buffalo and White Oak Bayous, eventually became Houston's first port.
The Sunset Coffee Building, back then known as the International Coffee Building, was built in 1910 as an annex to the 1880's W.D. Cleveland & Son's wholesale grocer supply building. Both buildings accepted goods as they came into the port. It also functioned as a coffee roasting company. The Columbian coffee was an important role in Houston's development and economy.
Today, Allen's Landing, and the space outside of Sunset Coffee Building, is designed with typography design work that tells the history, and highlights the goods that came through the port, such as seed, wool and, of course, coffee.

Source: Houston Chronicle

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