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Cockrell Butterfly Area, Houston Museum of Natural Science Space Center Houston is the official visitors’ center of NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center.Space Center Houston includes many interactive exhibits—including Moon rocks and a Space Shuttle simulator—in addition to special presentations that tell the story of NASA's crewed space flight program.
The Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden is a sculpture garden located at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) in Houston, Texas, United States.Designed by artist and landscape architect Isamu Noguchi, the garden consists of 25 works of the MFAH, including sculptures by Henri Matisse, Alexander Calder, David Smith, Frank Stella, and Louise Bourgeois.
Houstonia is a magazine about Houston and Greater Houston, Texas, United States. It is published by SagaCity Media. [1] The magazine's first issue released in April 2013, titled 250 Reasons to Love Houston. [2] As of January 2016, the magazine is distributed at 800 locations in Greater Houston, including newsstands, retail outlets, and grocery ...
The developer of the Houstonian Hotel was Tom Fatjo, a Houstonian who had also founded Browning-Ferris Industries (BFI). [2] The hotel opened in 1980. [3] George Alexander of the Houston Press said that the hotel was "built as a health club for business executives trying to shed pounds and rediscover their inner velociraptor".
Leighton Schubert, state representative from Caldwell, Texas; former Houston resident [54] Jim Sharp, state court judge, 2009–2014; Stephen Susman (1941–2020), plaintiffs attorney and a founding partner of Susman Godfrey; Sylvester Turner (1954–2025), 62nd mayor of Houston; Kathryn J. Whitmire, first female mayor of Houston; served five terms
As of 2005 Sheila Jackson Lee, a Houstonian, is one of two black Texan U.S. House of Representatives members. [52] Al Green (Texas 9th district), also from Houston, is the other. On December 13, 2015, Houston elected its second African-American mayor, Sylvester Turner. [53]
Houstonian may refer to: A native or resident of Houston; Houstonian, a passenger train operated by the Missouri Pacific from Houston to New Orleans; The Houstonian, the newspaper of Sam Houston State University; The official yearbook of the University of Houston; The Houstonian Hotel, a luxury hotel in Houston
Discovery Green is an 11.78-acre (47,700 m 2) public urban park in Downtown Houston, Texas, bounded by La Branch Street to the west, McKinney Street to the north, Avenida de las Americas to the east, and Lamar Street to the south. The park is adjacent to the George R. Brown Convention Center and Avenida Houston entertainment district. Discovery ...