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1600 Smith Street

Skyscraper in Houston, Texas

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 17, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

1600 Smith Street is a 51-story, 732-foot (223 m) office tower in Downtown Houston, Texas, United States. It served as the headquarters of Continental Airlines prior to its merger with United Airlines in 2010, and at one point also served as the headquarters of ExpressJet Airlines. It is a part of the Cullen Center complex.

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The public source identifies “1600 Smith Street” as skyscraper in Houston, Texas. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Smith, Street and Skyscraper.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1600, 2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Smith, Street and Skyscraper providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “1600 Smith Street”, the useful work is to connect “skyscraper in Houston, Texas” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 17, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1600 and 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “1600 Smith Street” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.