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The City of Houston abolished the ward system in the early 1900s. [8] In 1902, at the beginning of O.T. Hold 's term as Mayor of Houston , the city's financial records were in poor shape, and independent auditors found that the city's coffers had a shortage of over $54,000 for the period 1899 to 1902.
The city of Houston, Texas, contains many neighborhoods, ranging from planned communities to historic wards. There is no uniform standard for what constitutes an individual neighborhood within the city; however, the city of Houston does recognize a list of 88 super neighborhoods which encompass broadly recognized regions. According to the city ...
When Houston was established in 1837, the city's founders divided it into political geographic districts called "wards." The ward designation is the progenitor of the nine current-day Houston City Council districts. Much of the predominantly African American First Ward was demolished and renovated as part of a gentrification effort. Much of the ...
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 .
The Houston Press dubbed the Old Sixth Ward the 2006 "Best Hidden Neighborhood." [7] Author and Houston's first poet laureate Gwendolyn Zepeda grew up in the Old Sixth Ward. [8] On August 1, 2007, the city of Houston approved an ordinance protecting the Old Sixth Ward and thereby prevented the demolition of over 200 buildings. [9]
The First Ward of Houston, which is located inside the 610 Loop, is one of the city's historic wards. It was originally the center of the business district for the city, and was strategically located at the intersection of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou, near an area now known as Allen's Landing .
The Fifth Ward, nicknamed the Nickel, is a community of Houston, Texas, United States, derived from a historical political district , [1] about 2 miles (3.2 km) [2] northeast of Downtown. Its boundaries are Buffalo Bayou on the south, Little White Oak Bayou on the west, Collingsworth Rd on the north, and Lockwood Drive on the east.
Second Ward (also known as Segundo Barrio, Spanish for "second neighborhood", [1] or Segundo in short; [2] historically Das Zweiter in German) is a historical political district ward in the East End community in Houston, Texas. It was one of the four original wards of the city in the nineteenth century.