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The hospice practice languished until revived in the 17th century in France by the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul and, later, by the Irish Sisters of Charity, who opened St Joseph's Hospice in London, England in 1902. [2] In the 1950s at St. Joseph's, Cicely Saunders developed many of the foundational principles of modern hospice ...
San Felipe Plaza is a 46-story tower west of the Uptown Houston district in Houston, Texas, United States. [2] Designed by architect Richard Keating, the building was constructed in 1984 by Linbeck Construction Corporation and contains 959,466 square feet (89,137.3 m 2) of leaseable space.
The University of Houston–Downtown (UHD) is a four-year state university, located within the Main Street Market Square Historic District. Founded in 1974, it is one of four separate and distinct institutions in the University of Houston System. UHD has an enrollment of 12,900 students—making it the 13th largest public university in Texas ...
Briargrove is a neighborhood in Houston, Texas, United States, near Uptown Houston. Briargrove was established in the 1950s with one-story ranch homes built in the 1950s and 1960s. [1] Deed restrictions in the neighborhood were modified in 1986 to allow for 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story and two-story homes. Afterwards some of the older ranch homes were ...
The hospice facility was staffed by around 50 volunteers who cooked for, bathed, and cared for the patients. [6] At the time of its opening, the facility was the largest of the over 600 houses and services throughout the world founded by the Missionaries of Charity. Between 1986 and 1998, over 240 men and women died at the hospice service. [5] [7]
The organization was the first hospice program in Northeast Florida and one of a few operating programs in the state when Florida began granting hospice licenses in 1981; [1] Community Hospice received their license in 1983 [2] and in 2008, assisted nearly 1,000 patients daily [3] and more than 6,000 patients a year. [4]
The church grew along with the city of Houston, and in the late 1920s, members launched a campaign to raise money for new and larger facilities. Jesse H. Jones , Walter Fondren Sr. , and James Marion West Sr. each contributed $150,000, and the church hired noted architect Alfred C. Finn to design a new building at the corner of Main and Binz ...
One of Houston's oldest public parks, Hermann Park was created on acreage donated to the City of Houston by cattleman, oilman and philanthropist George H. Hermann (1843–1914). The land was formerly the site of his sawmill. [7] It was first envisioned as part of a comprehensive urban planning effort by the city of Houston in the early 1910s. [4]