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Washington Avenue is a road in Houston, Texas, United States. It is named for Washington County, as it is part of the original route from Houston to Brenham, the seat of Washington County. [1] U.S. Highway 90 was routed along Washington Avenue prior to the opening of the Katy Freeway.
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 .
East of Main Street and Interstate 69, south of Interstate 45, and west of Texas State Highway 35 (Spur 5) International Management District: Alief and Little Saigon: Westpark Tollway to the north, Beltway 8 to the east, Bissonnet Street and Bellfort Street to the south, Texas State Highway 6 to the west Memorial Management District Memorial City
David Walter, a Rice Military resident quoted in the Houston Chronicle, said that one could travel to Downtown Houston from Rice Military in five minutes. [1] The boundaries of the Rice Military neighborhood are Washington Ave on the north, the Buffalo Bayou on the south, Shepherd Drive on the east, and Westcott Street on the west. [2] [4]
Part of Main Street Historic District; exceptional-quality 14-room, 1850 inn is also the oldest building in Chappell Hill. Known as Hargrove House when it served as a boarding house for college students, during the antebellum period it was an important stagecoach and telegraph office on the routes between Houston & Austin and Houston & Waco. [5]
The Houston Heights is a natural buffer to the north. The official boundaries of West End are Durham Drive to the west, Washington Avenue to the south, I-10 to the north and Yale St. to the east. [1] The parts of this area that were the worst affected by neglect, poverty, and the Houston crack epidemic have been completely redeveloped.
Circa 1981 the Houston Planning Department ruled that, in the words of Kaplan, Washington Terrace was "in the stage of accelerating decline." [7] In 2002 Katherine Feser of the Houston Chronicle reported that gentrification was coming to Washington Terrace. [8] In 2004 the Houston Press named the neighborhood as having the best neighborhood ...
Downtown is the largest central business district in the city of Houston and the largest in the state of Texas, located near the geographic center of the metropolitan area at the confluence of Interstate 10, Interstate 45, and Interstate 69.