Historic businesses

Southwestern Fidelity Life (Sammy Baugh)

1954

In its first weeks Sammy Baugh’s insurance company bought a Montrose building for a home office; its affiliate, Southwestern Fidelity Investments, “has its headquarters in a four-story building at 11th Avenue and Harvard Street.”

Partial newspaper page: the headline Insurance Firm Buys $675,000 Structure over a photograph of a building half-hidden by trees, with a 1950s car in front.
Houston Post, Apr. 4, 1954, business section front: “Southwestern Fidelity Acquires Home Office,” with a photograph of the Montrose building the company bought.

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