Marathon Oil Tower
Marathon Oil Tower is a skyscraper in Uptown Houston. The building rises 562 feet in height. It contains 41 floors, and was completed in 1983 and construction only took 22 months.Photo: WhisperToMe, Public domain.
- Type: Building
- Description: skyscraper in Houston, Texas
- Address: 5555 San Felipe Street, Houston, TX 77056
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include The Galleria and T. H. Rogers School.
The Galleria
Shopping center
Photo: زرشک, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Galleria is an upscale mixed-use urban development and shopping mall located in the Uptown District of Houston, Texas, United States. The development consists of a retail complex, the Galleria Office Towers complex, two Westin hotels, and a private health club. The Galleria is situated 1 mile southeast of Marathon Oil Tower.
T. H. Rogers School
School
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Thomas Horace Rogers School is an alternative primary and secondary public school and part of the Houston Independent School District. The school is at 5840 San Felipe in Houston, Texas, United States, outside of the 610 Loop and inside Beltway 8, west of Uptown Houston. T. H. Rogers School is situated 2,900 feet west of Marathon Oil Tower.
San Felipe Plaza
Photo: WhisperToMe, Public domain.
San Felipe Plaza is a 46-story tower west of the Uptown Houston district in Houston, Texas, United States. Designed by architect Richard Keating, the building was constructed in 1984 by Linbeck Construction Corporation and contains 959,466 square feet of leaseable space. San Felipe Plaza is situated 3,200 feet west of Marathon Oil Tower.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Uptown Houston and Tanglewood.
Uptown Houston
Photo: Agsftw, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Uptown is in Houston, though nobody in Houston has used that term since about 1970 - it's generally referred to as "The Galleria", or to motorists at I-610 and U.S. 59 as the highway to avoid.
Tanglewood
Neighborhood
Tanglewood is an affluent neighborhood in western Houston, Texas, located off San Felipe Road. Tanglewood is located just outside the 610 Loop and inside Beltway 8 in the Uptown Houston area.
Briargrove
Neighborhood
Briargrove is a neighborhood in Houston, Texas, United States, near Uptown Houston. Briargrove was established in the 1950s with one-story ranch homes built in the 1950s and 1960s.
Marathon Oil Tower
- Category: skyscraper
- Location: Harris County, Texas, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
29.74968° or 29° 44′ 59″ northLongitude
-95.47201° or 95° 28′ 19″ westHeight
561 feet (171 metres)Open location code
76X6PGXH+V5OpenStreetMap ID
way 260359937OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesWikidata ID
Q2489225
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Spanish—“Marathon Oil Tower” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Marathon Oil Tower”
- Czech: “Marathon Oil Tower”
- Dutch: “Marathon Oil Tower”
- Egyptian Arabic: “برج ماراثون اويل”
- Finnish: “Marathon Oil Tower”
- Polish: “Marathon Oil Tower”
- Spanish: “Marathon Oil Tower”
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