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Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens, located in the River Oaks community in Houston, Texas, United States, is a 14-acre (57,000 m 2) facility of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) that houses a collection of decorative art, paintings and furniture. [2] Bayou Bend is the former home of Houston philanthropist Ima Hogg.
Ima Hogg helped to design Bayou Bend, which is now a museum operated by the Houston's Museum of Fine Arts. As the Varner–Hogg restoration wound to a halt, Hogg refocused her attention on her Houston home, Bayou Bend, [90] which housed some of her personal collection of antiques and artwork. [74]
The brothers, along with sister Ima Hogg, oversaw the construction of Bayou Bend, a stately southern-style home on the banks of Buffalo Bayou. The first development of River Oaks was the summer house of William L. Clayton. Houston-architect Birdsall Briscoe completed this Colonial Revival home for the Clayton family in 1924.
The 80 acres (32 ha) area included 28 contributing buildings and 11 non-contributing ones in 1988, along an east-west road (named Belgard Bend Road and/or Mill Race Road) along the curved south side of narrow Bayou Rapides. North-south Louisiana Highway 121 crosses the district and Bayhou Rapides at its center, the location of McNutt Mill.
Bayou Pierre is a partially man-made bayou and ancient course of the Red River [1] in Louisiana, United States.It is a tributary of the Red River originating from an ancient bend of the Red River at Coate's Bluff (Wright Island) in Shreveport, LA [2] (now blocked off by a levee to prevent the Red River from flooding into Bayou Pierre) and merging west from the town of Clarence, Louisiana. [3]
Talos Energy, Carbonvert, and Chevron have announced a MoU for an expanded joint venture to develop the Bayou Bend offshore CCS hub.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places in inner Harris County, Texas, defined as within the I-610 loop within Harris County, Texas, but excluding those places in Downtown Houston and those in Houston Heights, which are listed separately.
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