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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 .
Jefferson Davis Hospital operated from 1924 to 1989 and was the first centralized municipal hospital to treat indigent patients in Houston, Texas. [2] It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. [1]
In 1996 Cisneros signed an agreement to allow the City of Houston to demolish 677 of the community's 963 units as long as the site was still used for low income housing. [12] The older units were brick buildings, while David Ellison of the Houston Chronicle said that the newer units "look like any other apartments in Houston". [2]
In 1987, Kim Cobb of the Houston Chronicle said "It's hard to find any vestige of the old First Ward, since it's covered by downtown office buildings." [ 2 ] In 2006, the last remaining houses of a former residential neighborhood were vacated and bulldozed, replaced by the 23-acre (9.3 ha) Sawyer Heights Village, a shopping center that includes ...
500 Jefferson, with its construction scheduled to begin on October 1, 1960, was the first building in Cullen Center to be developed. [17] 500 Jefferson, which opened in 1962, [7] has offices of KBR. [18]
The main entrance to Thomas Jefferson Hospital at 111 S. 11th Street in Center City Philadelphia. Thomas Jefferson University Hospital is the flagship hospital of Jefferson Health, a multi-state non-profit health system based in Philadelphia. The hospital serves as the teaching hospital for Thomas Jefferson University.
CenterPoint Energy Tower (formerly Houston Industries Plaza) is a 741 feet (226 m) tall building in downtown Houston.The original building, finished in 1974, stood at 651 feet (198 m), but a 90-foot (27 m) extension was added as part of a 1996 renovation.
The first building completed in the new Civic Center was the Julia Ideson Library in 1926. [3] Mayor Holcombe promoted continued development of the Civic Center through the late 1920s. In 1927, he appointed Will Hogg to chair the CPC. Hogg's vision for Houston was well aligned with the Civic Center plan.