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2. Houston City Hall - Wikipedia

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   The City Hall and Market House, located on Travis Street at Prairie Avenue, was shared by the Houston city government and the city market.(1904) Houston City Hall and Market (postcard, circa 1912-1924) From 1841 to 1939, Houston's municipal government was headquartered at Old Market Square. It was destroyed by fire in the 1870s, and also in ...

3. History of Houston - Wikipedia

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   The Oral History of Houston; A thumb-nail history of the city of Houston, Texas, from its founding in 1836 to the year 1912, published 1912, hosted by the Portal to Texas History; True stories of old Houston and Houstonians: historical and personal sketches / by S. O. Young., published 1913, hosted by the Portal to Texas History

4. Houston City Council - Wikipedia

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   The Houston City Council is a city council for the city of Houston in the U.S. state of Texas. The Council has sixteen members: eleven from council districts and five elected at-large. The members of the Council are elected every four years, with the most recent election being held in 2023 and the next being held in 2027.

5. Politics of Houston - Wikipedia

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   The City of Houston Parks and Recreation Department was created by a city ordinance on March 15, 1916. When it was created it had two parks, Hermann Park and Sam Houston Park. As of 2010 the department maintains about 350 developed parks and 200 esplanades and greenspaces inside and outside of the City of Houston. [48] [49]

6. Thomas Howe Scanlan - Wikipedia

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   Scanlan moved to Houston to work as a merchant in 1853. [1] Scanlan joined the Republican Party at the dawn of Reconstruction, then two years later, accepted a position on Houston City Council representing the Third Ward. The Reconstruction Governor appointed him mayor of Houston in 1870. [1]

7. George E. Dickey - Wikipedia

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   In November 1902 Dickey was awarded a contract to design Houston's fourth City Hall, the previous three all having been destroyed by fire. [3] Dickey based his design, featuring two towers for a clock and bell, on the previous city halls, but Dickey designed the stone and brick building in a Victorian Romanesque style which was outdated. [3]

8. Houston's next mayor has big city problems to fix. Familiar ...

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   The challenges facing Houston’s next mayor are familiar to many big cities: crime, crumbling infrastructure, budget shortfalls and a lack of affordable housing. U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee took ...

9. Sallie Alcorn - Wikipedia

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   Sallie Alcorn is an American politician who has held political office as an at-large council member in the City of Houston, Texas since 2020. Alcorn collected 22.8% of the votes in the November 5, 2019 general election, [1] which triggered a runoff.