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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 .
In 2005, landlord Wulfe & Co., which had acquired the mall, announced plans to demolish the mall in phases [6] together with an adjacent strip mall that it owned, to make way for BLVD Place, a denser mixed-use development planned to contain upscale retail shops and restaurants, mid- and high-rise residential units, and a 225-room upscale hotel ...
Downtown 1st location: 620 Main Street, one room: Houston: Texas: 1921: moved 1923 Downtown 2nd location "Main at Capitol" [4] Houston: Texas: 1923: moved 1926 Downtown 3rd location: 700–6 Main Street, Bankers Mortgage Building, [17] [18] now Great Jones Building: Houston: Texas: 1926: moved 1953 Downtown 4th location: 708 Main Street, Gulf ...
When it opened the mall had 600,000 ft² (56,000 m²) of retail space. The original skylights — which graced among other things a large, floor-level, ice rink, open year-round - had three hanging chandeliers. A connected 400-room hotel was opened in September 1971, the Houston Oaks Hotel (now The Westin Oaks Houston). [12]
The plan to build a giant statue in Shigaraki was transformed into the Nara Daibutsu project. [3] The actual site of the palace was lost for many years. Initially, ruins in the Urano neighborhood of Shigaraki were thought to be the site of the palace, and these ruins were given the National Historic Site designation in 1926.
River Oaks Shopping Center. The River Oaks Shopping Center is a shopping center in Neartown, Houston, adjacent to River Oaks.As of 2012 the more than 322,000-square-foot (29,900 m 2) center includes one grocery store, one movie theater, 14 restaurants, and 76 stores.
River Oaks District is an openair luxury shopping complex in Houston, Texas, which opened October 1, 2015. [1] It consists of 252,000 square feet of retail space with an iPic movie theater. Anchor stores include Hermes, Dior, Cartier, Harry Winston, Van Cleef, Saint Bernard, and Zimmermann.
The Prince Theater, where Battelstein opened his first store. Philip Battelstein arrived in Houston in 1897 as a Jewish immigrant from Lithuania. Arriving with only a few dollars to his name, he soon opened his own tailor and haberdashery, P. Battelstein & Company, located inside the Prince Theater building at 314 Fannin Street (now a walkway adjacent to the Harris County Tax Office); it later ...