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|   Skyline District - Houston, Texas
in Waymark Tours (WayTours) This is the city’s corporate heart, home to abstract art and post-modern corporate monuments connected by a labyrinth of climate-controlled tunnels and skywalks. A 3-mile walk takes you through the buildings, underground, and high into the sky. posted by:  JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 8/8/2007 last visited: 2/28/2009 |
 view gallery0 mi |  Shops at Houston Center - Houston, Texas
in Indoor Malls Most of the retail left downtown (which isn’t much) has found a home in this two-block, glass-enclosed shopping mall beneath the city’s skyscrapers. Stores tend towards the low-end, but the food court has some gems. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 8/8/2007 last visited: 2/28/2009 |
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|  Houston Center - Houston, TX
in Starbucks Stores Just a counter in the food court. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 12/30/2006 last visited: 2/28/2009 |
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|  Fulbright Tower - Houston, Texas
in Skyscrapers Caudill Rowlett Scott designed this 725-foot, post-modern office tower for Gulf Oil in 1982, as part of Houston Center. After a stint as headquarters for Chevron, the building’s major tenant now is the law firm of Fulbright & Jaworski.
posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 5/25/2008 last visited: 2/28/2009 |
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| McKinney & San Jacinto - Houston, TX in Starbucks Stores This Starbucks is on the fourth floor, adjacent to the sky walk leading to One and Two Houston Center. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 12/30/2006 last visited: 2/28/2009 |
 view galleryNW0.1 mi | 1 Houston Center, Houston, Texas in Skyscrapers Built after 2 Houston Center in 1978, 1 Houston Center abandoned all the plans that had been developed for Houston Center four years before. It is simply a tall, 678-ft., horizontally striped glass box designed by S.I. Morris Associates. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 6/18/2007 last visited: 2/28/2009 |
 view galleryNW0.1 mi | First City Tower - Houston, Texas in Skyscrapers Morris*Aubry Architects designed this 662-foot tower in 1983 for First City Bank. The black-and-white horizontal bands and off-set vertical cuts - creating the letter 'F' for First City - makes this one of the most prominent buildings in the skyline. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 5/25/2008 last visited: 2/28/2009 |
 view galleryNW0.1 mi | 2 Houston Center, Houston, TX in Skyscrapers Wandering along the third-story terrace of this 40-story, 1974 skyscraper, you can piece together some of the original plans hatched by William L. Pereira Associates for their 75-acre, city-within-a-city project. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 11/26/2006 last visited: 2/28/2009 |
 view galleryNW0.2 mi |  Houston Downtown Tunnel System - Houston, TX
in Wikipedia Entries If you enter this confusing maze of climate-controlled tunnels, lined with restaurants and stores, you might not find your way out. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 11/12/2006 last visited: 7/13/2009 |
 view galleryNW0.2 mi |  Houston, Texas - Houston Tunnel System
in Official Local Tourism Attractions If you enter this confusing maze of climate-controlled tunnels, lined with restaurants and stores, you might not find your way out. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 8/8/2007 last visited: 7/13/2009 |
 view gallerySE0.2 mi |  Discovery Green - Houston, Texas
in Municipal Parks and Plazas Discovery Green was heralded as Houston’s Millennium Park. Millennium Park it is not, but, in the sense that Houston is a smaller, less-dense version of Chicago, maybe that comparison can hold true.
posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 5/27/2008 last visited: 6/21/2008 |
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|  Thomas William Jr. House
in Texas Historical Markers T.W. House Jr. ran his father's bank, the T.W. House Bank, until its bankruptcy. The marker sits right outside the U.S. Customhouse. Ironically, it seems as if both his and his father's homes were demolished for federal buildings. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 7/7/2007 last visited: 1/13/2008 |
 view galleryNW0.2 mi |  Murphy's Deli - Houston, Texas
in Neon Signs Murphy's Deli is a great sandwich stop in downtown Houston, Texas. posted by:  wildwoodke location: Texas date listed: 4/8/2008 last visited: 6/7/2008 |
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|  Toyota Center - Houston, Texas
in Professional Sports Venues Hosting basketball, ice hockey, and the occasional concert, 19,000-seat Toyota Center is home to the 2-time NBA champion Houston Rockets, the 4-time WNBA champion Houston Comets, and the AHL Houston Aeros. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 5/25/2008 last visited: 2/13/2008 |
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in Lawn Bowling Two bocce ball courts located in the Discovery Green Park in Houston, TX. posted by: ggmorton location: Texas date listed: 6/21/2008 last visited: 2/28/2009 |
 view galleryN0.2 mi |  Texas Company Building - Houston, Texas
in U.S. National Register of Historic Places A grand limestone arcade, supported by paired columns and vaulted with Guastavino tiles, makes this 1915 Beaux Arts building, liberally ornamented with the Texas Company logo, perfect for Houston’s sultry climate.
posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 6/6/2007 last visited: 1/13/2008 |
 view galleryNW0.2 mi | City National Bank Building - Houston, Texas in U.S. National Register of Historic Places This building’s Art Deco detailing may suggest that it was built in the 1930s. But it wasn’t. Alfred C. Finn, always conservative, choose Art Deco for Houston’s first major post-World War II office building in 1947. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 6/17/2007 last visited: 2/28/2009 |
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in Art Deco - Art Nouveau Alfred C. Finn designed this late Art Deco building in 1947. The best views of this building (as well as the Esperson Buildings) can be had from the top floor of the McKinney Place Garage. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 8/9/2007 last visited: 2/28/2009 |
 view galleryNW0.2 mi | Chesterfield's Restaurant - Houston, Texas in Neon Signs Chesterfield's Restaurant is located in downtown Houston, Texas posted by: wildwoodke location: Texas date listed: 4/8/2008 last visited: 6/7/2008 |
 view galleryN0.2 mi | U.S. Customhouse - Houston, Texas in U.S. National Register of Historic Places Houston’s most prominent Federal Building in the early 20th century was its Customhouse – the revenue-generating arm of the Federal government at the time, collecting import taxes and tariffs from the port and protecting American businesses. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 6/6/2007 last visited: 2/28/2009 |
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|  Monument au Fantome, Jean Dubuffet, Houston
in Abstract Public Sculptures French artist Jean Debuffet sculpted this piece in 1977 for the plaza of 1100 Louisiana. In 2008, the sculpture was moved to Discovery Green Park, directly across from the George R. Brown Convention Center. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 5/26/2008 last visited: 6/7/2008 |
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|  Root Memorial Square Basketball Court - Houston, Texas
in Outdoor Basketball Courts This basketball court, located near the Toyota Centre is in Root Memorial Square in downtown Houston, Texas posted by: wildwoodke location: Texas date listed: 10/17/2008 last visited: 7/18/2009 |
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in Festivals A festival which is located in the new Discovery Green Park next to the George R. Brown convention center in Houston, TX. posted by: ggmorton location: Texas date listed: 6/23/2008 last visited: 6/21/2008 |
 view galleryNW0.2 mi | Main Steet Square - Houston, Texas in Municipal Parks and Plazas With dancing fountains arching over light rail trains as they travel atop a pool of water, the square is pretty cool with its nightly video shows – but it's definitely not the Fremont Street Experience. posted by: JimmyEv location: Texas date listed: 11/12/2006 last visited: 2/28/2009 |
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in Convention Centers The main convention center in Houston, TX. posted by: ggmorton location: Texas date listed: 6/21/2008 last visited: 6/21/2008 |
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