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Texas Renaissance Festival Westheimer Street Festival (no longer held biannually since October 17, 2004; the replacement festival, WestFest Compressed, was held in October 2005) One-time events
The Health Museum; Holocaust Museum Houston; Houston Center for Contemporary Craft; Houston Fire Museum; Houston Fire Station No. 7; Houston Museum District; Houston Museum of Natural Science; Sam Houston Park
The Gulf Coast Archive and Museum of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender History, Inc. (GCAM) is an LGBT history organization located in Houston. [1] It was previously in Neartown. [2] GCAM was created to collect, preserve and provide access to historical items from the LGBT community of the Gulf Coast area of Texas. [3]
The Houston Museum District is an association of 21 museums, cultural centers and community organizations located in Houston, Texas, dedicated to promoting art, science, history, and culture. The Houston Museum District currently includes 21 museums that recorded a collective attendance of around 7 million visitors a year. [ 1 ]
Heritage Museum of Montgomery County is a history museum in Conroe, Montgomery County, Texas, a mostly rural county northeast of Houston. The museum includes exhibits on the origin of the current population of the county, including those drawn by the lumber and oil industries. It is located in the Grogan/Cochran home, built in 1924. [1] The ...
The Orange Show is a work of outsider art in Houston, Texas. Jeff McKissack, a mail carrier, transformed a small suburban lot near his house into a folk art installation, which he named "The Orange Show" in honor of his favorite fruit. [1] [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.
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 .
1978 - The headquarters of Continental Airlines moves to Houston after buying out Texas International. 1978-1980 - Traffic signals at major intersections were improved. Houston is the first in the nation to modernize their signage, which is still done to this present day.