Joseph Finger

He found employment with C. D. Hill & Company, an architecture firm based in Dallas, where he worked for about five years.

Many of these hotels catered to wealthy residents with modern amenities such as air conditioning and running ide-water.

In 1925, he designed the Temple Beth Israel, more recently repurposed as a theater building for Houston Community College.

[2] Though Finger established a practice of commercial architecture, he also designed many single-family residences, especially in the Riverside Terrace neighborhood in Houston.

Jesse H. Jones contracted for his services for a mixed-use building to house the Houston Chamber of Commerce with a store front for Levy Brothers' Dry Goods, a collaboration with Alfred C. Finn.

In response to criticism from Houston mayor R. H. Fonville, who wanted a style with more classical reference, Finger said, "Here in America we are rapidly developing our own type of architecture which is far above that of foreign countries.

This sculpture, and the twenty-seven other friezes around the building, were carved by Beaumont artist Herring Coe and co-designer Raoul Josset.