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The Houston Zoo is a 55-acre (22 ha) zoological park located within Hermann Park in Houston, Texas, United States. The zoo houses over 6,000 animals from more than 900 species. It receives around 2 million visitors each year and is the second most visited zoo in the United States, surpassed only by the San Diego Zoo. [3]
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 .
Acres Homes is a neighborhood located in northwest Houston, Texas. The 9-square-mile (23 km 2) mile area is loosely bounded by the city limits and West Gulf Bank Road to the north; Pinemont Drive to the south; North Shepherd Drive to the east; and Alabonson Drive to the west. Historically, it has been predominantly African American.
The community was located along a main street that is now known as Almeda Genoa Road (the road from Almeda to Genoa). The east end of the community was the Old Galveston Road (Texas State Highway 3) and the Galveston, Houston, Henderson Railroad. The western edge was Freestone Street and the railway just to the west.
Liberty High School, an alternative high school for recent immigrants, was from 2017 on the campus of Sharpstown International. [57] In 2022 it moved to the Houston Community College (HCC) Gulfton Campus. [58] [59] There are three Alief ISD elementary schools in the district: Best, Audrey Judy Bush, and Collins. [54]
The University of Houston is a nationally recognized Tier One research university, and is the flagship institution of the University of Houston System. [12] [13] [14] The third-largest university in Texas, the University of Houston has nearly 40,000 students on its 667-acre campus in southeast Houston. [15]
Memorial Park, a municipal park in Houston, Texas, is one of the largest urban parks in the United States. Opened 101 years ago in 1924, the park covers approximately 1,466 acres (5.9 km 2) mostly inside the 610 Loop, across from the neighborhood of Memorial.
In 2015 the Brays Oaks Super Neighborhood, a City of Houston-defined area with different boundaries from the management district, had 64,548 people. 45% were non-Hispanic black, 33% were Hispanic or Latino, 13% were non-Hispanic White, 6% were non-Hispanic Asian, and 2% were non-Hispanic others. The per square mile population was 8.160. [16]