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Arts & Culture Houston’s Orange Show Monument to undergo $1 million restoration with help of federal grant. The money will be used for structural and foundational improvements to the decades-old ...
O n the north side of Hermann Park, a 445-acre urban green space in the heart of Houston’s Museum District, a massive monument stands to honor the city’s namesake. The statue, a bronze ...
The San Jacinto Monument—the tallest monument column in the world—is about to undergo a "transformative" $142-million upgrade after the Texas legislature kicked in the funds. The project ...
Uptown Houston has updated its timeline for the construction of a new 350-foot suspension bridge aimed at connecting the area ...
First public monument in Houston turns 100 By By: HEATH HAMILTON March 1, 2005 On March 17, the Dick Dowling Statue in Hermann Park will celebrate the 100th anniversary of its unveiling on St ...
Houston residents stirred by racial clashes in Virginia are demanding removal of a Confederate monument that has sat largely unnoticed more than 100 years in a quiet corner of Sam Houston Park.
News. Confederate Monument Protests Draw Hundreds in Houston and Dallas “There’s no reason that Houston, the fourth largest city in the country, a city with a black mayor, should have ...
Protesters with Black Lives Matter gather next to Sam Houston Park in downtown Houston to call for the removal of a Confederate statue in the park, in Houston, TX on Saturday, August19, 2017.
Walking amongst the 800 weathered Corten steel columns at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Ala., in early June, I could not shake the feeling that the dead were among us ...