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Marathon Oil Tower is a skyscraper in Uptown Houston. The building rises 562 feet (171 m) in height. [1] It contains 41 floors, and was completed in 1983 and construction only took 22 months. [2] First City Tower currently stands as the 20th-tallest building in the city.
It was the largest office building in Houston at the time, containing approximately 196,000 sq ft (18,200 m 2) of space. [2] A 1932 renovation added a central air conditioning system to the building, the first in any Houston office building. [3] Humble Oil and Refining Company expanded the building in 1936 with an adjacent 17-story tower.
The TC Energy Center is a highrise that represents one of the first significant examples of postmodern architecture construction in downtown Houston, Texas.The building has been formerly known as the RepublicBank Center, the NCNB Center, the NationsBank Center, and the Bank of America Center.
CenterPoint Energy Tower (formerly Houston Industries Plaza) is a 741 feet (226 m) tall building in downtown Houston. The original building, finished in 1974, stood at 651 feet (198 m), but a 90-foot (27 m) extension was added as part of a 1996 renovation.
Alief Elsik High School is a high school in the Alief region of Houston, Texas, United States.. Elsik is divided into two campuses: the main campus (12601 High Star in Houston, zip code 77072), and the Alief Elsik Ninth Grade Center (located at 6767 South Dairy Ashford, city of Houston, 77072), which serves ninth graders.
Heritage Plaza is a postmodern skyscraper located in the Skyline District of downtown Houston, Texas. Standing at 762 feet (232 m), [1] the tower is the 5th-tallest building in Houston, the 8th-tallest in Texas, and the 60th-tallest in the United States. The building, designed by Houston-based M. Nasr & Partners P.C., was completed in 1987, and ...
WAUR (1550 kHz) is an AM radio station licensed to Somonauk, Illinois. The station is owned and operated by Nelson Multimedia Inc., and currently airs a country music format . Additional programming includes local news, high school sports, a weekly fishing and outdoor program, and NASCAR racing.
West Oaks is a small subdivision in Houston, Texas. It is east of, [1] and in close proximity to, Tanglewood proper. [2] Mimi Swartz of National Geographic wrote that compared to River Oaks, West Oaks is "more nondescript". [3] Beginning in the 1990s, George H. W. Bush became a resident of the neighborhood.