Mechanic, Looking East from 25th

From "Souvenir of Galveston" ~1900

.....This is an image of Mechanic looking east from 25th, mislabeled in the brochure as 26th. The large building on the left is the Clarke & Courts building, which is now the Strand Lofts. The next building down was the Leon & H. Blum building, which originally was built with three stories. It is now the Tremont House Hotel, with a Mansard roof added as a fourth floor. A sketch of the building from 1882 showed a Mansard roof, but it was never built until 100 years later when George and Cynthia Mitchell restored it as an upscale hotel.