“Insuranceman Buys Building on Harvard”: Lester A. Miller purchased the building from the Houston National Bank for about $40,000 in September 1939. Home Life Assurance Company, of which Miller was general manager, moved in, and by August 1940 the papers were calling the corner the Legal Reserve Building.
Houston Chronicle, Sept. 10, 1939, p. 43: “Insuranceman Buys Building on Harvard.” Lester A. Miller buys “a two-story building at Harvard and Eleventh” from the Houston National Bank, “the former home of the Reagan Masonic Lodge.”
