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Menil Collection. One corner of the Menil Collection. The Menil Collection, located in Houston, Texas, refers either to a museum that houses the art collection of founders John de Menil and Dominique de Menil, or to the collection itself of paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs and rare books. [1]
Eastwood was one of Houston’s first master-planned subdivisions. [2] It was designed and developed in 1911 by William A. Wilson, who also developed Eastwood's sister neighborhood, Woodland Heights. [3] The first lots went on sale in June 1912 and Eastwood officially opened in September 1913. [2][3] A few of the homes were built between 1900 ...
This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Wood County, Texas. There are one district and nine individual properties listed on the National Register in the county. Two individually listed properties are Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks while the district contains more.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), is an art museum located in the Houston Museum District of Houston, Texas.With the recent completion of an eight-year campus redevelopment project, including the opening of the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building in 2020, [2] it is the 12th largest art museum in the world based on square feet of gallery space.
In November 1992, 172 properties were for sale, and selling prices ranged from $400,000 ($868484.7 in today's money) to over $1 million ($2171211.76 in today's money). [5] Claudia Feldman of the Houston Chronicle said that by that year, "[p]rices in Tanglewood have zoomed heavenward" and that many people had begun tearing down older houses. [7]
Scenic Woods, Houston. Coordinates: 29.8608°N 95.3008°W. Scenic Woods Neighborhood Library. Scenic Woods is a neighborhood located in northeast Houston, Texas, United States, [1] near Homestead Road and Parker Road. The community is populated by working class African Americans.
East Texas is within the Black Belt region, the fertile area that was the center of cotton culture and enslaved African-American labor. [11] [12] East Texas has the largest Black population in the state. [13] Unlike Texas's total state racial demographics, only two counties in East Texas outside of Greater Houston's sphere had a majority minority.
Caddo Indian Communities in Wood County Cap Ranch Rd (CR 2724), 1.9 mi E of Loop 564, Mineola, Texas: Historical (Subject) Marker, Texas Hist. Comm. Callaway House 512 N. Sycamore, Mineola, Texas: Recorded Texas Historic Landmark (RTHL) Captain Henry Stout FM 2088, 9 mi. East of Quitman, Texas: Historical (Subject) Marker, Texas Hist. Comm.