In 1900 there was a large stampede of gold seekers to Nome, Alaska. They moved to San Francisco where their daughter Dorothy was born and Frank traveled between California and Juneau in his work as a purchasing agent for his father's mining company. (One man remembered being photographed by Frank when he first arrived in Alaska and walked off the steamboat at Juneau.) Frank and his wife, Elizabeth Helen Davis, were married in 1894 in Helena, Montana at her brother's home and Frank made photographs while in Montana. Frank took up photography as a hobby some time before 1894. Eventually he started working or his father. Frank brought six cows and a bull and ran a dairy farm for a year. Thomas started a mining business and his son, Frank Nowell joined him there in 1886. In 1885, Thomas Nowell went out to Juneau, Alaska to join two of his brothers who were already out there. His father, Thomas Shepard Nowell, was the first child christened in the Thomas Shepard Congregational Church (after which he was named) and was held by Oliver Wendell Holmes as he was christened. Frank's great grandfather served in the Revolutionary War and his grandfather lived in the Longfellow House in Cambridge for many years. He was from a prominent New England family whose ancestor, Peter Nowell, had come to American in the 1600s from the Isle of Jersey. In 1991 the building was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.Frank Hamilton Nowell was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on February 19, 1864. The building is now named for its current owner, Tower Life Insurance Company. Renovations in 2010 removed the obsolete television mast in favor of the tower's original design, a copper tophouse with a 114 ft (35 m) tall flagpole. In 1953 a television transmission tower was added to the structure. In the 1940s the building was renamed the Transit Tower for the San Antonio Transit Company, which the Smith Brothers purchased in 1943. Subsequent structures in the development were never built as a direct result of the Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression. The property became the local outlet of Hilton Hotels in 1956 and was converted into the Granada Apartments in 1966. The other completed building in the development is the former Plaza Hotel (also designed by Ayres & Ayres), which opened in 1927. The building also housed San Antonio's first Sears, Roebuck and Company store in its lowest 6 levels. While the exterior uses traditional materials such as brick, the internal structure is reinforced concrete on the lower floors, and steel frame on the upper floors. The eight sided, neo-gothic brick and Ludowici green terra-cotta tower (complete with gargoyles) was designed by noted local architectural firm Ayres & Ayres ( Atlee & Robert M. The building opened in 1929 and was originally named the Smith-Young Tower and is the central component of a partially completed development called the Bowen Island Skyscrapers. As of 2023, the Tower Life Building is the 4th tallest building in San Antonio and the tallest eight-sided structure in the United States. Built in 1929 and standing at 404 feet (123 m) tall, the Tower Life Building was the tallest building and structure in San Antonio until the Tower of the Americas was completed in 1968, and the Marriott Rivercenter surpassed it as the tallest building in San Antonio in 1988. Landmark in Downtown San Antonio, Texas, USA. The Tower Life Building (formerly the Smith-Young Tower and the Transit Tower) is a 31-story building and a historical
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