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Stop 15 of 32 · Dallas audio walking tour

Titche-Goettinger Building

Downtown Dallas · 1929 · One of the Southwest's Largest

What you'll hear here: about a minute on Titche-Goettinger Building — how it came to be, who it mattered to, and what to look for while you're standing in front of it.

Edward Titche and Max Goettinger gave their name to the Titche–Goettinger Building, whose broad department store façade runs along St. Paul Street between Main and Elm ahead of you. From this corner you can read a retail history: Edward Titche and Max Goettinger formed their partnership in 1902 and opened a store on the southeast corner of Elm and Murphy. By 1904 they had already outgrown that location and moved into the year-old Wilson Building.

Growth continued: by 1928 construction began on a new flagship two blocks east in what was called "Uptown. Designed by architect George Dahl, the new building opened in November 1929 as one of the largest department stores in the Southwest. Today the building houses apartments, retail space, and the Universities Center at Dallas, and its importance is recognized — it's listed on the National Register of Historic Places both on its own and as part of the Dallas Downtown Historic District, and it is a Dallas Landmark within the Harwood Street Historic District.

Your walk from here crosses to Main Street Garden Park, past a building now filled with apartments, retail, and the Universities Center at Dallas.

Where it is

Coordinates
32.78167, -96.79528
Area
Downtown Dallas
Era
1929 · One of the Southwest's Largest
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