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Westheimer Road and Westheimer Parkway are named after Mitchell (Michael) Louis Westheimer, [13] a prosperous German Jewish immigrant and flour salesman who had settled in Houston in 1859. [14] [15] He purchased a 640-acre (260 ha) farm west of Houston's city limits at the time, where Lamar High School and St. John's School are currently ...
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Houston, the largest city in Texas, is the site of 58 completed skyscrapers over 427 feet (130 m), 50 of which stand taller than 492 feet (150 m). [1] [2] [3] The tallest building in the city is the JPMorgan Chase Tower, which rises 1,002 feet (305 m) in Downtown Houston and was completed in 1982.
The JPMorgan Chase Building, formerly the Gulf Building, is a 37-story 130 m (430 ft) Art Deco skyscraper in downtown Houston, Texas. Completed in 1929, it remained the tallest building in Houston until 1963, when the Exxon Building surpassed it in height. [ 5 ]
Alan Greenspan (born March 6, 1926) is an American economist who served as the 13th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006. He worked as a private adviser and provided consulting for firms through his company, Greenspan Associates LLC.
Westchase is a business district and neighborhood in western Houston, Texas, bounded by Westheimer Road on the north, Gessner Road on the east, Houston Center Boulevard on the west, and Westpark Tollway on the south. [1] The area is bisected by Beltway 8.
For a guy who made two of the biggest plays in Georgia history the past two seasons, Adonai Mitchell should be used to celebrating touchdowns by now. Mitchell and Alabama already have some notable ...
The Independence Heights Residential Historic District is a 70 acres (28 ha) historic district in the Independence Heights neighborhood of Houston, Texas which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.