Originally built in 1927 as an office space for The Texas Company (now Texaco), the building is now the site of the Cambria Hotel Houston Downtown Convention Center.

The club capped itself at 50 members, required a join and membership fee, and heralded itself as pursuing "the maintenance of comfortable quarters for the association of mutually agreeable personnel; the pursuit and furtherance of... literary and artistic undertakings... and the study and preservation of the historic traditions of Texas.

These included:[3] In 2015, a Dallas-based developer, Todd Interests, purchased the structure with plans to renovate the building and create 150 luxury apartment units.

The project was slated to receive a 15,000 tax credit per unit from the Houston Downtown Living Initiative, a program designed to encourage residential development in the city center.

Additionally, this stepped-back shape, as Cullinan saw it, was the answer to questions about how to join the skyscraper and its surrounding landscape and how to increase natural light at street level.