The prayer garden at 1407 Valentine was once home to Mt. Carmel Missionary Baptist Church. The church was established in 1915 as Nelson’s Chapel Baptist Church then changed their name to Mt. Carmel in 1921, pulling inspiration from a sermon. During the congregation’s largest period […]
The house with the tree growing through its middle that is now home to Michelangelo’s was built in 1930 for T.W. Browne, and was surrounded by homes just like it all along what was then called Hathaway Street. Hathaway was a residential street until the […]
Houston Histories, Beauchamp Springs: Beauchamp Springs were found and named by Thomas Beauchamp in 1838. Knowing the treasure he had found, Beauchamp started buying up the land around the springs, calling the area Beauchampville. Beauchamp tried to sell the land slowly and develop his small […]
Originally built in 1910 by John Bowman, an insurance company owner, the house combines both Victorian, with its intricate and large porch, and Arts and Crafts styles, with its simple tapered porch columns. In the 60s and 70s, the home served as the First Pagan […]
Today’s Central Police Supply on Houston Ave is housed in Houston’s oldest still-standing synagogue. Although there had been a strong Jewish community in the city since the 1850s, Orthodox Jews began immigrating specifically to the Sixth Ward in the early 1900s from Russia and Austria. […]
German immigrants Heinrich and Hannah Guese built this house in 1854, and was originally at 1720 Spring Street where townhomes are being built today. The house sat on 2 acres of land that they bought for $50. They used that land to start a farm, […]
To the east of Glenwood Cemetery lies Washington Cemetery. Originally called German Society Cemetery, the cemetery was founded in 1887 by the Deutsche Gesellschaft von Houston, formed in 1875. The name was changed to Washington Cemetery in 1918 due to the anti-German sentiments in the […]
Dow Elementary was first started in 1887, but this building was built in 1912 as a 16 room structure, and was enlarged in 1928. For the first part of its history, it served the entire Sixth Ward neighborhood. Later, it became one of 10 schools […]
The apartment building at the corner of Redan and Beauchamp in the Heights was originally Windt Food Market, built in 1912. It was first run by the German immigrant Carl Kuhlmann, but in the late 1920s Otto and Martha Windt purchased the store and ran […]
The first owners of this 1910 house were Charles Rolle Painter, a train conductor for Southern Pacific, and his wife, Maggie. The home is one of the original homes built by William Wilson Realty Company. Starting in 1920, Maggie began taking in children, through a […]
The Klunkert Farmhouse predates the development of the Woodland Heights, and is the oldest home on the east side of Studewood in the Heights. German immigrants Ernst and Wilhelmina built the house in 1875, on their 11.5 acre vegetable farm. They bought the land for […]
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