Place record · 1515 Pease Street · Houston

Engine Room

Name: Engine Room
Address: 1515 Pease Street, Houston, TX, US

The East Downtown room at 1515 Pease Street that shut in July 2008 and whose building later operated as Jet Lounge.

The Engine Room stood at 1515 Pease Street in East Downtown. It announced its closing on its own MySpace blog in late July 2008 and cancelled the shows still on its calendar.Houston Press · setlist.fm

The archive holds no sourced opening date, ownership or capacity for the venue. Those fields are left open rather than estimated.

Quick reference

Where was Engine Room?: 1515 Pease Street, Houstonsetlist.fm
When did Engine Room close?: July 2008Houston Press

Identity

At a glance

Name: Engine Room
Address: 1515 Pease Street, Houstonsetlist.fm
Area: East Downtown
Closed: July 2008Houston Press
Later use: The building subsequently operated as Jet LoungeFree Press Houston

History

What the sources establish

The Engine Room was one of the East Downtown rooms carrying touring and local bookings in the years before the Pease Street building changed hands.setlist.fm

The closing was announced by the venue itself rather than reported first by the press; the Houston Press picked it up on July 30, 2008 and noted that remaining dates were off.Houston Press

Address lineage

What was at 1515 Pease Street

One East Downtown building carried two venues in sequence. The Engine Room occupied 1515 Pease Street until it shut in July 2008, announcing the closing on its own MySpace blog and cancelling the dates it had left.Houston Press · setlist.fm

The same address later operated as Jet Lounge, which ran until 2016. Free Press Houston filed a report from Jet Lounge's last show in March of that year.Free Press Houston

The archive holds the two as separate venue records sharing one address rather than merging them, because the operators, booking and periods differ.

Archival views

Held photographs

Painted Engine Room sign on the brick wall of 1515 Pease Street. — Engine Room, 1515 Pease Street. Painted wall sign; date not established.Supplied by Omar Afra. Photographer unheld.

Chronology

Dated record

July 2008
Closing announced
The venue posts its closing to its own MySpace blog and cancels remaining dates.Houston Press
After 2008
The building reopens as Jet Lounge
The same Pease Street address carries a second venue, which runs until 2016.Free Press Houston

Elsewhere in the archive

The Engine Room is registered in the archive's directory of lost Houston music venues alongside Jet Lounge, Walter's, Fitzgerald's and the Washington Avenue rooms.

Location

1515 Pease Street

Address

1515 Pease Street
Houston, TX

Open in Google Maps Lost Houston music venues

The venue is closed. The address is held because the published venue record and later reporting both place the room there.

The venue is closed and this record is historical. Nothing at the address is operated by the Engine Room.

Sources

What this record is built from

This Just In (Sort of): Engine Room Shuts DownHouston Press
Contemporary report of the Engine Room's closing in July 2008 and of the cancellation of its remaining dates.
Engine Room, Houston, TX — venue recordsetlist.fm
Published venue record giving the 1515 Pease Street address and the performance history filed under it.
End of an Era: The Last Show at Jet LoungeFree Press Houston
The paper's own report from the venue's final night, held in the archive.
Lost Houston Music Venues: A Historical DirectoryFree Press Houston Archive
The archive's directory of closed Houston rooms named across the corpus.