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Morgan's Point National Historic District includes the "Carriage House" otherwise known as City Hall, and the Governor Ross S. Sterling mansion, directly across the street; as well as several other notable properties. It earned fame in Texas's early history for being the home of the legendary Emily West (Morgan), known as "The Yellow Rose of ...
The nearly 100-year-old estate was built and designed exclusively for the then-governor of Texas, Ross Sterling. Much of the house has been restored and modernized but in a mansion with this much ...
Ross Shaw Sterling (February 11, 1875 – March 25, 1949) was an American politician who was the 31st Governor of Texas, serving a single two-year term from January 20, 1931, to January 17, 1933. A 1926 magazine cover depicts the proposed 40-story Sterling Hotel in Houston, designed by Ross Sterling's son-in-law, architect Wyatt Hedrick; the ...
The properties are distributed across Harris County. There is a concentration in "Downtown Houston", defined as the area enclosed by Interstate 10, Interstate 45, and Interstate 69. More than 100 are in the "Houston Heights" neighborhood whose borders are, approximately, Highway I-10 on the South, I-610 on the North, 45 on the East and Durham ...
The 22-story skyscraper was built by oil magnate Ross S. Sterling for his newspaper the Houston Post, at the corner of Texas and Fannin streets in 1926.At the time, it was one of the city's tallest skyscrapers. [3]
April 9, 1965: The 190-foot tall Sky Hook and merry-go-round (carousel) rides at the new 6-acre oil boom town section of Six Flags Over Texas, new for the season
In the 1930s, the population of the remote rural area, which was predominantly black, was believed to be between 150 and 300. In the middle of the 1970s, the Double Bayou hamlet was identified on maps by several homes and churches. In 1981, 26,136 tons were handled by the Double Bayou port. 400 people were living in the community as of 1990 and ...
Sterling was born in Houston, Texas in the same year that his grand-uncle Ross S. Sterling became governor of the state. [1] Sterling was in the United States Army from 1951 to 1954, and then received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1956 followed by a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Texas School of Law in 1957.