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One Moody Plaza is also known as the American National Insurance Company Building, named for a company founded by William Lewis Moody in 1905. The insurance company employed 70 people in its Galveston office by in 1912, a number that increased to 500 by 1928, when it had already acquired 27 other insurance companies.
In 1857, congress created the Eastern and Western District of Texas. Texas continued to grow, and in 1879, congress formed the Northern District. As the railroads continued to expand and fuel the Texas economy, congress created the Southern District on July 1, 1902. [5] Marcus C. McLemore (1902-1906) Lodowick McDaniel (1906-1914)
The building serves as the federal court for the Galveston Division of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas. Constructed in 1937, and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2001 as Galveston U.S. Post Office, Custom House and Courthouse , [ 1 ] the building is home a number of federal agencies, and ...
Soccer games are played on a large grass field on the western side of the campus with plans to build a soccer-specific venue in the coming years in what is now the southern parking lot. Memorial Stadium hosted the 2012 CCCAA state football title game where Bakersfield College defeated City College of San Francisco in front of a crowd of over ...
If the district decided to renovate Courville stadium, it would have had to purchase 75 structures, including a church, to build enough parking spaces. Galveston law requires one parking space per 200-square-foot (19 m 2) of building space, and Courville, which had 140 parking spaces, did not have the sufficient number specified by law; if GISD ...
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The shops and cafes that line the Downtown streets feature dining and shopping venues. Notable attractions in Downtown Bakersfield include the Rabobank Arena, the McMurtrey Aquatic Center, the Bakersfield Museum of Art, the historic Fox Theater, the Padre Hotel, and a nightlife district centered on 19th Street and Wall Street Alley. [2]
In the 1970s, Bakersfield College established a satellite campus in a former department store. Although not known as the Education District at the time, it was the first college to establish a presence downtown. [1] In 1997, the Bakersfield City School District established the Downtown Elementary School nearby. [2]