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Wheeler Station is a station on the METRO Red Line in Houston.The station is located at the intersection of Main Street and Wheeler Street in Midtown. [2]This station will also be a transfer station for the METRORapid University Line, when it is built.
Union Station is a building in Houston, Texas, in the United States. Dedicated on March 2, 1911, and formerly a hub of rail transportation, the building now serves as a cornerstone for Daikin Park. [2] It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and has since been superseded by Houston's Amtrak station.
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 present Houston station, which opened on October 26, 1959, was built by the Southern Pacific Railroad to replace Grand Central Station, which was just east of the present station. That station operated from September 1, 1934 until the property was sold to the U.S. Government in 1959 to become the site of the Houston main post office .
Upon its completion, the building surpassed Aon Center in Los Angeles to become the tallest building in the United States west of the Mississippi River, a title it held until Los Angeles's Library Tower, now known as the U.S. Bank Tower, was built in 1990. [citation needed] JPMorgan Chase Tower is connected to the Houston Downtown Tunnel System ...
Houston (/ ˈ h juː s t ən / ⓘ HEW-stən) is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the Southern United States.Located in Southeast Texas near Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, it is the seat of Harris County; as well as the principal city of the Greater Houston metropolitan area, the fifth-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the United States and the second ...
The Merchants and Manufacturers Building was built in 1930 and was the largest building in the city at the time. [2] Although the commerce-focused building featured 14 miles of floor space and could accommodate one-third of the city's population, the Great Depression in the United States stifled initial participation.
In 1993, the Consulate-General of the United Kingdom in Houston leased 9,707 square feet (901.8 m 2) in the First Interstate Plaza. [8] In 1995 Koll Real Estate lost the management contract for the First Interstate Plaza. [9] In 1996, NGC Corp. (now Dynegy) leased 260,000 square feet (24,000 m 2) in the First Interstate