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Cullen is an Irish surname. It is an Anglicised form of Gaelic Ó Cuileáin 'descendant of Cuileán', a name meaning ' wolfhound whelp ', 'young hound'. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is also considered by some to mean the 'handsome one'. [ 3 ]
Hugh Roy Cullen (July 3, 1881 – July 4, 1957) was an American industrialist and philanthropist. Cullen was heavily involved in the petroleum industry having struck oil near Texas in 1928. [ 1 ] He was a large supporter of multiple educational institutions in and around Houston, in one of which, the University of Houston , he became a longtime ...
Cullen was a self-educated cotton and real-estate businessman who moved to Houston in 1918 and soon began oil prospecting. [124] Cullen's success led to his founding the South Texas Petroleum Company (with partner Jim West Sr. ) and Quintana Oil Company. [ 125 ]
The Allen Center is a mixed-use skyscraper complex in Downtown Houston, Texas, United States. It consists of three buildings, One Allen Center (500 Dallas Street), [1] Two Allen Center (1200 Smith Street), [2] Three Allen Center (333 Clay Street). [3] The complex has about 3,000,000 square feet (280,000 m 2) of space. [4]
The community has been invited to line the roadsides on Carl Vinson Parkway on Tuesday afternoon for the escort of his body from McCullough funeral home to Southside Baptist Church. The route will ...
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.
The construction of the Ezekiel W. Cullen Building was announced by the university on March 21, 1945. [1] The construction of the E. Cullen Building was part of a large expansion to the University of Houston's permanent buildings on campus that took place starting on May 10, 1948, and the official groundbreaking ceremony occurred on May 14, 1948.
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