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The Minneapolis Club was founded in 1883 by leading Minnesota business and civic leaders, including John Pillsbury and Charles Loring. [1] In its first 25 years, the club changed locations three times. It has been headquartered in its present location, however, since its opening in 1909.
The following restaurants and restaurant chains are located in Houston, Texas This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
The restaurant popularized fajitas in the Houston area. [3] This dish was so influential that, by 2001, just about all Tex-Mex restaurants in Houston served a version of the Ninfa's fajitas. [7] Original Ninfa's tacos al carbón/fajitas. The second most popular dish was the "Green Sauce," an avocado and tomatillo sauce.
The chain had locations in Houston, Galveston, and New Orleans. [11] The Galveston and New Orleans locations closed by 2012. [12] The restaurant's Houston locations included Travis Street/Downtown (the J.P. Morgan Chase Tower in Downtown Houston), [13] [14] Galleria (Uptown Houston, near The Galleria), [15] Hobby (near Hobby Airport), [16] Heights (on Shepherd Drive, near Houston Heights), [17 ...
Westheimer Road and Westheimer Parkway are named after Mitchell (Michael) Louis Westheimer, [13] a prosperous German Jewish immigrant and flour salesman who had settled in Houston in 1859. [14] [15] He purchased a 640-acre (260 ha) farm west of Houston's city limits at the time, where Lamar High School and St. John's School are currently ...
[4] In 1995 Racine said "Elsewhere, Kirby Drive and especially Richmond Avenue are examples of strips where a bandwagon effect has spurred the proliferation of restaurants and clubs." [2] In 1994 Greg Hassell of the Houston Chronicle said that the Richmond Strip was "the city's party strip."
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 .
The Minneapolis Forum Cafeteria was located at 36 South 7th Street [1] originally constructed in 1914 as the Saxe Theater, later the Strand Theater. [2] A 1930 reconstruction created a cafeteria with a stunning Art Deco interior of black onyx and pale green tiles, sconces, chandeliers, and mirrors with a Minnesota-themed motif: pine cones, waterfalls, and Viking ships.