A Ride to the Top
René Ammann | 19. October 2025
The Humble-Exxon Building has sat empty for more than a decade and, regardless of its listing on the National Register of Historic Places, faces an uncertain future. (Photo: Jujutacular/Wikimedia Commons)
Price for an elevator ride to the 44th story of the Humble-Exxon Building in Houston—once the tallest building in Texas and considered elegant enough to be described as “Cary Grant as a skyscraper”—when it opened in 1963 as the headquarters of Humble Oil: 25 cents