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The area is served by the Judson W. Robinson-Westchase Neighborhood Library of Houston Public Library at 3223 Wilcrest Drive. [72] The branch is named for Judson W. Robinson Jr. (1932-1990), who in 1971 became the first African-American elected to the Houston City Council.
The Marriott Marquis Houston is a 1000-room Marriott hotel in Houston, Texas. It is the second large hotel located near the George R. Brown Convention Center, [3] [4] to which it is connected by a pedestrian sky bridge. [1] It includes six restaurants and a 40,000-square-foot ballroom, the largest in Houston. [5]
The Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau and various area hotels and restaurants distributed the guides for free, and the East End Area Chamber of Commerce mailed copies of the guide. [11] In 2013 Houstonia wrote that East End Houston is "home to some of the city’s best Mexican restaurants and bakeries."
The hotel was included in Condé Nast Traveler magazine's list of the world's Top 100 new hotels in May 2004. [4] Its success led the group to open Hotel Valencia Santana Row in San Jose, California. [when?] [citation needed] In 2009, Hotel Sorella CityCentre opened in Houston in the mixed-use urban CityCentre development.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 36.97 square miles (95.75 km 2), of which 29.50 square miles (76.40 km 2) is land and 7.47 square miles (19.35 km 2) is water. [1] Situated on Sebasticook Lake, Newport is drained by Martin Stream and the East Branch of the Sebasticook River. Sebasticook Lake is ...
The Esquire Ballroom closed in 1995 and remained unused for a number of years. The nightclub reopened as Neon Boots Dancehall & Saloon in August 2013 as the largest country and western genre bar in the Southern United States, the second largest country and western dancehall and bar in the state of Texas, and largest country and western bar in ...
The Texas State Hotel is located at 720 Fannin, at the corner of Fannin and Rusk in downtown Houston. As recently as 2007, it shared Block 80 with the Kress Building (1913), the Houston Bar Center, and the Kirby Building. This last two buildings have been modified with modern slipcovers. The 2008 NRHP nomination form reported eleven buildings ...
There is also a new, 346 area code. Areas far north, west, east and south of the inner-city also use 936 and 409. Zip codes in Houston range from 77002 to 77099. A small portion of northeast Houston uses zip codes 77339 and 77345. Houston is the most populated city in the United States without zoning laws. City voters rejected creation of ...