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English: The 1917 Cheek-Neal Coffee Company Building was designed by Houston architects Joseph Finger and James Ruskin Bailey as a regional coffee processing facility for the developers of the Maxwell House brand. The company’s Houston building was one of seven similar multi-story buildings across the country where the company roasted ...
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 .
More than 100 are in the "Houston Heights" neighborhood whose borders are, approximately, Highway I-10 on the South, I-610 on the North, 45 on the East and Durham on the West. The "inner Harris County" area is defined as the rest of the area within the Interstate 610 loop; "outer Harris County" is defined as the rest of Harris County.
House of Pies claims it first opened in Houston in 1967, but records from Houston Historic Retail and Houston Post archives show 1970 as the actual starting year (for both the Kirby and Westheimer locations). [3] The chain, specializing in family dining, continued to expand and there were 32 locations in the greater Los Angeles area alone by 1971.
Houston store hours for New Year's Eve and New Year's Day including H-E-B, Costco, Aldi, CVS, Sam's Club and Walmart.
Joel Owsley Cheek (December 8, 1852 – December 14, 1935) was an American businessman and philanthropist. He was the founder of the Maxwell House coffee brand. Early life
Westbury Square was a shopping center located on a 7.5-acre (3.0 ha) site near the intersection of Chimney Rock Road and West Bellfort Avenue, [1] in the Westbury neighborhood in the Brays Oaks district of Southwest Houston, Texas. [2]
The Kennedy Center as seen from the air on January 8, 2006 (before construction of the REACH expansion). A portion of the Watergate complex can be seen at the left. The idea for a national cultural center dates to 1933 when First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt discussed ideas for the Emergency Relief and Civil Works Administration to create employment for unemployed actors during the Great Depression. [3]