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The discontinuation of the ward system also meant that the official boundaries of the 5th Ward were in dispute. Today, the 5th Ward is recognized as "bounded by Buffalo Bayou on the south, Lockwood Drive on the east, Liberty Road on the north, and Jensen Drive on the west" and is considered a Super Neighborhood by the city of Houston. [4]
[1] [48] This property was along the Buffalo Bayou. [9] As of December 2010 KBR no longer operates this office. [49] The KBR office complex was the former headquarters of Brown & Root. [50] Brown and Root began buying land in the Fifth Ward in 1949. It initially acquired 79 acres (32 ha), then it acquired an additional 58 acres (23 ha). [9]
The community known as the Second Ward today is roughly bounded by Buffalo Bayou to the north, Lockwood Avenue to the east, and railroad tracks to the south and west, although the City of Houston's "Super Neighborhood" program includes a section east of Lockwood. [3]
North of Buffalo Bayou, east of Elysian Street, south of Collingsworth Street, and west of Lockwood Drive 56 Denver Harbor / Port Houston East East of Lockwood Drive, south of Liberty Road, and north of Clinton Drive 57 Pleasantville Area East Along the western (inner) edge of Interstate 610 58 Northshore: East
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.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places in inner Harris County, Texas, defined as within the I-610 loop within Harris County, Texas, but excluding those places in Downtown Houston and those in Houston Heights, which are listed separately.
Fire Station 18, 1976. East End Houston is bounded on the west by downtown Houston and on the east by the Port of Houston. Buffalo Bayou flows past the site of Harrisburg, an early Texas trading post and seat of government for the Republic of Texas in 1836.
Buffalo Bayou is a slow-moving river which flows through Houston in Harris County, Texas.Formed 18,000 years ago, it has its source in the prairie surrounding Katy, Fort Bend County, and flows approximately 53 miles (85 km) east through the Houston Ship Channel into Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. [2]