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Pages in category "Houses completed in 1860" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 342 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Original plan and construction: In 1855 the U.S. Congress appropriated the sum of $100,000 to build a Custom House building for Galveston, Texas. Plans and specifications were prepared by the supervising architect of the office of Construction of the U.S. Government Treasury Department who was at that time Ammi Burnham Young .
July 27, 1979 (306 W. Houston St: Marshall: Recorded Texas Historic Landmark: 2: Dial-Williamson House: Dial-Williamson House: March 2, 1979 (3 mi (4.8 km) W of Marshall on Old Longview Rd.
A number of Houston's earliest homes are now located in Sam Houston Park, including the Kellum-Noble House, which was built in 1847 and is Houston's oldest brick dwelling. [77] During the late 1930s and early 1940s, the Kellum-Noble House served as a public office for the City of Houston's Park Department, and is listed in the National Register ...
It was about the ugliest thing I’d ever seen, to be honest with you.” [3] In 2011, Jerry Wood, an independent consultant advising the City of Houston on issues related to the U.S. Census and a former City of Houston deputy assistant of planning and development, said "In Cottage Grove, three-and four-story townhouses are replacing bungalows ...
John Moore served in both the Texas House of Representatives and the United States House of Representatives. [4] Lottie's father J. Foster Dyer, who died a year before the wedding, was a wealthy rancher in Fort Bend County. Her maternal grandmother Nancy Gray Spencer Barnett was among the original colonists who came to Texas with Stephen F. Austin.
Around that time houses were listed for sale in the range $42,000 ($81593.89 in today's money) to $74,900 ($145509.1 in today's money). The houses were more inexpensive than similar houses in Fondren Southwest and sections of Missouri City. [2] As of 2007 most houses have burglar bars, and many have placed cameras at the corners of their houses.
In 1860, 49% of the city's population was enslaved. [4] African Americans started to settle in the community and it was founded by H. H. Holmes. Sunnyside, the oldest African-American community in southern Houston, was first platted in 1912. [5] When the community opened in the 1910s, H. H. Holmes, the founder, gave the land the name Sunny Side ...