Battelstein's is a commercial skyscraper located on Main Street in downtown Houston, Texas, United States.
Originally only two floors, it was expanded to its present ten-story form between 1934 and 1950 by architects Joseph Finger and George Rustay.
Arriving with only a few dollars to his name, he soon opened his own tailor and haberdashery, P. Battelstein & Company, located inside the Prince Theater building at 314 Fannin Street (now a walkway adjacent to the Harris County Tax Office); it later burned down.
[2] Battelstein restarted his business at 618 Main Street in 1909; around the same time, the partnership dissolved and the company name became just "P.
[1] By June 1924, Battelstein's announced it would double in size and touted itself as "being made the most modern in the Southwest".
The following year, Battelstein hired Houston architect Joseph Finger to design an expansion.
The expansion was completed in 1950 and was followed by several minor restorations and redecorations over the decades, as well as the opening of two new stores: at River Oaks in 1953 and at Sharpstown Mall in 1961.
[2] It then entered a period of on-and-off vacancy at different tenants occupied the building and operated as a nightclub and then as condominium apartments.