Franklin Lofts, originally known as the Lomas & Nettleton Building, is an 8-story, building in

downtown Houston Downtown is the largest central business district in the city of Houston and the largest in the state of Texas, located near the geographic center of the metropolitan area at the confluence of Interstate 10 in Texas, Interstate 10, Interstate 45, ...

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. The building is generally regarded as the first skyscraper in the city. The Lomas & Nettleton Building was completed in 1904, and rises 8 floors in height. A new addition was completed in 1925. It was also the tallest

steel-framed Steel frame is a building technique with a "skeleton frame" of vertical steel columns and horizontal I-beams, constructed in a rectangular grid to support the floors, roof and walls of a building which are all attached to the frame. The developm ...

building west of the

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at the time of its completion. The Lomas & Nettleton Company was originally housed in the building, but it was converted to residential lofts and renamed in 1999.

Zoned schools

Franklin Lofts is within the

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. As of 2015 the building is assigned to

Gregory Lincoln Education Center Edgar Gregory-Abraham Lincoln Education Center (GLEC) is a K-8 school located at 1101 Taft in the Fourth Ward area of Houston, Texas, United States. Gregory-Lincoln is a part of the Houston Independent School District (HISD) and has a fine arts m ...

(Grades K-8),Gregory-Lincoln Elementary School Attendance Zone
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. Retrieved on April 18, 2018.Gregory-Lincoln Middle School Attendance Boundary
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. Retrieved on April 18, 2018. and Northside High School (formerly Jefferson Davis High). Residents were previously zoned to Bruce Elementary School, and

E. O. Smith Education Center This is a list of schools operated by the Houston Independent School District. In the district, grades kindergarten through 5 are considered to be elementary school, grades 6 through 8 are considered to be middle school, and grades 9 through 1 ...

(for middle school).E. O. Smith Middle Attendance Zone
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''. Retrieved on July 26, 2009.

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