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During that year the Almeda area became a part of HISD. In 1981 a new Almeda Elementary School campus opened. [23] The current Almeda campus opened in February 2011. [24] Until the fall of 2011, residents east of Almeda Road were zoned to Woodson K-8 School, [19] [20] while residents west of Almeda Road were zoned to Lawson Middle School.
Taylor-Stevenson Ranch is an historic 640-acre working ranch located near Reliant Stadium on Almeda Rd. in Houston, TX. [1] The ranch was officially designated in the Congressional Record as a "Texas Century Ranch" which recognizes ownership by the same family for over a century. [2]
The community was located along a main street that is now known as Almeda Genoa Road (the road from Almeda to Genoa). The east end of the community was the Old Galveston Road (Texas State Highway 3) and the Galveston, Houston, Henderson Railroad. The western edge was Freestone Street and the railway just to the west.
In the era of racial segregation, Almeda Road, a road located in Third Ward area that at that time served as a corridor to Downtown Houston, was a busy commercial corridor. [7] The construction of Interstate 45 in the 1950s separated portions of the historic Third Ward from the rest of Third Ward and brought those portions into Downtown. [8]
Almeda Mall was constructed in 1968, but the Foley's (now Macy's) had arrived two years earlier in the spring of 1966 and JCPenney was the other original anchor. Almeda was the premiere mall for the area southeast of Houston until 1978 when Baybrook Mall opened a few exits south, much closer to the affluent Clear Lake/NASA area. Baybrook ...
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places in downtown Houston, Texas.It is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the Downtown Houston neighborhood, defined as the area enclosed by Interstate 10, Interstate 45, and Interstate 69.
Old Town Spring is an old town with over 150 shops, restaurants, and art galleries in Spring, a community in unincorporated Harris County, Texas. [citation needed] Old Town Spring is north of Houston and outside Beltway 8. Many of the original buildings, some over 100 years old, now house places to buy antiques, collectibles, clothing, and gifts.
The original routing ran southward along Almeda Road in Houston. The route traveled southward through Fresno , past the Houston Southwest Airport , before reaching Bonney . This entire portion of the route from US 90 Alt. southward was transferred to Farm to Market Road 521 and Spur 300 on December 14, 1981, as SH 288 was rerouted onto the new ...