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The prominent location at the southeast corner of Twentieth and Post Office (Avenue E) Streets emphasizes its importance to Galveston's shipping-based economy. Nearly all the original decorative elements on the exterior of the building are cast iron including columns, cornices, balustrades, dentils, entablatures, and window architraves.
Fort Point Light ; Location: Entrance to Galveston Bay, Texas: Coordinates (approx.): Tower; Constructed: 1881: Foundation: screw-pile: Construction: cast-iron/wood: Height: 47 feet (14 m): Shape: hexagonal house: Light; First lit: 1882: Deactivated: 1909: Lens: Fourth order Fresnel lens: Characteristic: Fixed white with several red and dark sectors: Fort Point Light was a lighthouse located ...
Point Bolivar Light is a historic lighthouse in Port Bolivar, Texas, that was built in 1872. It served for 61 years before being retired in 1933, when its function was replaced by a different light. It served for 61 years before being retired in 1933, when its function was replaced by a different light.
Using slave labor and European craftsmen, Brown proceeded to build one of the first brick structures in Texas. [2] [4] The three-story house was built in Victorian Italianate style, with deep eaves, long windows and ornate verandas that were topped by lintels made of cast iron. The brick walls were made thirteen inches thick, to help protect ...
Constructed in 1937, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001 as Galveston U.S. Post Office, Custom House and Courthouse, [1] the building is home a number of federal agencies, and at one point housed the Galveston Bureau of the National Weather Service.
The original plat of Galveston, drawn in the late 1830s, includes Avenue B. The name 'strand' for Ave. B was coined by a German immigrant named Michael William Shaw who opened a jewelry store on the corner of 23rd and Ave. B. Shaw, not liking the name "Ave. B", changed the name of the street on his stationery to "Strand", thinking that the name (named after a street in London) would have ...
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KTMD (channel 47) is a television station licensed to Galveston, Texas, United States, serving as the Houston area outlet for the Spanish-language network Telemundo. Owned and operated by NBCUniversal's Telemundo Station Group, the station maintains studios on I-610 (North Loop) and Bevis Street on Houston's northwest side, and its transmitter is located near Missouri City, in unincorporated ...