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The Washburn Tunnel is a two-lane underwater motor-vehicle tunnel connecting Galena Park and Pasadena, two suburbs of Houston, Texas. Completed in 1950, it travels north-south underneath the Houston Ship Channel. It was named after Harris County, Texas Auditor Harry L. Washburn. It is the largest and first toll-free vehicular tunnel in the ...
The Houston tunnel system is a network of subterranean, climate-controlled, pedestrian walkways that links 95 full city blocks 20 feet (6 m) below Houston's downtown streets. It is approximately six miles (9.7 km) long. [1] There are similar systems in Chicago, Dallas, Oklahoma City, Montreal, and Toronto.
The Wells Fargo Plaza, formerly the Allied Bank Plaza and First Interstate Bank Plaza, is a skyscraper located at 1000 Louisiana Street in Downtown Houston, Texas in the United States. This building is currently the 20th-tallest Building in the United States , the second tallest building in Texas and Houston, after Houston's JPMorgan Chase ...
Houston Belt and Terminal Railway; Overview; Parent company: Union Pacific and BNSF Railway: Headquarters: 501 Crawford Street, Room 100, Houston, TX 77002-2113: Dates of operation: 1905 () – Technical; Track gauge: 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in)
The trip from Houston to the panhandle resumes travel that started in September 2022 "but was sadly cut short due to passing of Queen Elizabeth II." British delegation to tour parts of West Texas ...
Westheimer Road (/ ˈ w ɛ s t (h) aɪ m ər /) is an arterial east–west road in Houston, Texas, United States. It runs from Bagby Street in Downtown and terminates at the Westpark Tollway on the southern edge of George Bush Park, stretching about 19 miles (31 km) long. The street was named after Michael Louis Westheimer, a German immigrant ...
Museum District Station is a light rail station on the METRORail Red Line in Houston, Texas . It serves the Houston Museum District . [ 1 ] According to METRO, there are fourteen museums within four blocks of the Museum District Station.
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]