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Old Posted Jan 14, 2017, 3:04 AM
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Historic Schlumberger building to be remade in EaDo

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Local preservationist David Denenburg has purchased the Schlumberger building in the east end with plans to restore the property and fill it with tenants to serve the burgeoning neighborhood around it.

The 1938 structure, a rare Houston example of Art Deco architecture, was long ago the U.S. headquarters for oil services giant Schlumberger.

Denenberg, who is also restoring the Cheek-Neal Coffee building in the same area, said he will seek state and federal tax credits to help rehab the building.

"I'm going to be putting it back together to try to bring it back to how it was in the 1930s and '40s," said Denenberg, who closed on the building last week. "I've got my steel workers on site replicating the windows to a T exactly how they were in 1938."

Denenberg envisions retailers occupying the first floor and office space and/or a medical user in the rest of the building.

"All these townhouses are scattered all over the area with zero retail," he said.
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