210 21st Street - Jockusch Building

17,071 square foot retail and event spaces.

This corner situated building was the first constructed on Galveston Island after the Civil War, and was built by Mr. J. W. Jockusch, a prominent citizen and businessman of Galveston. Originally, it was the site of a carriage manufacturing company. In the 1920s it was owned by the Maceo interests, another highly prominent name in the history of Galveston, that controlled much of the illegal gambling on the Island. One event room on the second floor still holds an original sign, “Maceo Fish and Oyster Company”, and is referred to as “The Maceo Bakery”, as it was at one time also home to a bakery that served all of the many Maceo facilities. The first floor is now occupied by retail stores, the second floor is home to two large event rooms, and the third highly original to 1866, and ready for conversion into lofts, or one large single residence for the owner. The building is wrapped by two streets, “The Strand” and “21st”, and fitted with a 2,500 square foot exterior balcony, perfect for viewing of Mardi Gras and other large scale events, and accessible to both of the two event rooms, “The Buccaneer Room”, and “The Maceo Bakery”.