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More than 100 are in the "Houston Heights" neighborhood whose borders are, approximately, Highway I-10 on the South, I-610 on the North, 45 on the East and Durham on the West. The "inner Harris County" area is defined as the rest of the area within the Interstate 610 loop; "outer Harris County" is defined as the rest of Harris County.
This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places that are located in the Houston Heights neighborhood of Houston. The "Houston Heights" neighborhood borders are, approximately, Interstate 10 on the South, I-610 on the North, Interstate 45 on the East and Durham on the West.
Leonidas is a sculpture of a hoplite made of Parian marble in 480–470 BC [1]: 263 and unearthed in 1925. [1] The excavation team named it "Leonidas", deducing that it depicts the Spartan king Leonidas I. [1]: 266 It was found southwest of peribolos of the Athena Chalkioikos on the Acropolis of Sparta.
The house was demolished in 1965. The land was purchased in 1979 by the Houston Heights Association for the purpose of constructing Marmion Park, named in honor of the last mayor of Houston Heights, J. B. Marmion. [104] The Houston Heights Woman's Club was founded in 1900, and constructed its own club building in 1912, which is still in use.
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Leonidas, King of Sparta, who defeated the Persians at Thermopylae (it is often misidentified as a Roman gladiator) commemorates the excavation of the Music Concourse in 1893. The northern end of the Concourse after the most recent renovations, as seen from the de Young Museum in 2009.
Bush's casket traveled by train from Houston to College Station, Texas, and then carried to the gravesite behind his library by a military honor guard, in a ceremony overseen by his son and former ...
In 1956 Dr. Nicholas Ryan, a Brooklyn Heights physician, is quoted stating that in the 1890s his father, a building contractor, had found "the bones of some thirty bodies in regular, or military order," in the course of digging cellars for apartment buildings on the site at the northeast corner of Seventh Street and Third Avenue. [14]