For an investment of less than $10,000, the duo would become the founding fathers of Houston and what began as a struggling trading post would in time become the fourth largest city in the nation and a capital of industry. First Houston Fat Stock Show & Rodeo (now Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo) held. We're seeing green this week as we show you easy ways to practice money matters at home. Braniff International inaugurates first scheduled air passenger service to Houston. Explore Houston's history by decade in this interactive timeline. Houston metro area population reaches 1,000,000.
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Rice Institute (now Rice University) begins classes. Source: University of Houston Digital Library. Houston Electric Light Co. is organized.
First deepwater vessel, the S.S. Satilla, calls at Houston. Other facets of the collection include African-American art and Texas painting. Three competing firefighting companies combined into the Houston Volunteer Fire Department. The center would be expanded in 2001 to 1.8 million square feet. 155 office buildings completed in 12 months. The museum's collections and programs are housed in seven facilities.
Chaille Cullinan Hutcheson then began her two-year term as President and the Museum launched its âTake a Giant Stepâ Capital Campaign to build a larger, permanent facility in the Museum District. In 1974, John and Audrey Jones Beck placed on long-term loan fifty Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces, augmenting the museum's already strong Impressionist collection. Over the next two decades, gifts from prominent Houston families and foundations concentrated on European art from the fifteenth to twentieth centuries, contemporary painting and sculpture, and African, Oceanic and Pre-Columbian art. Our Texas History Museum "I am Houston" Signature. Houston city council sets speed limit of 8 mph. 1, is formed to fight fires.
Toyota Center, home of the National Basketball Association’s Houston Rockets, opens. Pictured from left to right, past Presidents Max Lukens (1996â1999), Life Board Member Charlene Pate (1994â1996) and Paul Murphy (1999â2001) in the John P. McGovern Kidsâ Hall. Census finds Houston MSA has no racial or ethnic majority.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), located in the Houston Museum District, Houston, is one of the largest museums in the United States. Gail Borden lays out the town’s streets 80’ wide, with the principal east-west street (Texas Ave.) 100’ wide. Houston Board of Trade and Cotton Exchange are organized. Childrenâs Museum Houston is a registered 501(c)(3) organization. Houston is first Texas city with electric streetcars. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) is the oldest art museum in Texas. Minute Maid Park, home of Major League Baseball’s Houston Astros, opens. Houston Museum and Scientific Society, Inc., predecessor of the Houston Museum of Natural Science, is organized. Houston Chamber of Commerce, Houston Economic Development Council and Houston World Trade Association combine to form Greater Houston Partnership. Port of Houston ranks second nationally in total tonnage. First census after Texas joins the United States counts 2,396 Houstonians. Old Market Square on what is today the north end of Downtown. The view of Super Bowl Live leading up to Super Bowl LI. Minute Maid Park under construction in the late 1990s. Past Board President from 1992-1994 and Life Board Member, Kathryn L.E. Congress makes its first appropriation — $10,000 — for ship channel improvements. Each year, 1.25 million people benefit from museum's programs, workshops and resource centers.
The Houston Chamber of Commerce's annual meeting was held in January 1945.
Emerging collection interests of modern and contemporary Latin American art, Asian art, and Islamic art continue to strengthen the museum's collection diversity. “Houston” is the first word spoken from the lunar surface. As a result of its encyclopedic collection, the museum ranks nationally among the top ten art museums in attendance. During the Civil War, the closest fighting is at Galveston. Houston Grand Opera Association and Houston Ballet founded. More than 100,000 evacuees flee to Houston from southern Louisiana in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Intracoastal Canal links Houston to Mississippi River navigation system. Itâs time to crack codes, uncover clues, and outsmart villains. First Houston city park opens. Of that total, more than 500,000 people participate in the community outreach programs.
BBVA Compass Stadium, home of Major League Soccer’s Houston Dynamo, opens. Automobile first appears in Houston as an advertising gimmick.
Houston police begin using motorcycles to enforce speed limits.
Nearly 80,000 energy-related jobs are lost. The annual fundraiser benefiting the Museum returns online! They range from feature length documentaries to short history Slices. Oil discovered at Spindletop, and later discoveries at Humble in 1905 and Goose Creek in 1906, put Houston in the center of new oil and oilfield equipment development. NRG Stadium, home of the National Football League’s Houston Texans, opens. More than 200 major firms move headquarters, subsidiaries and divisions here in the 1970s.
During her tenure as Board President and Life Board Member, Gail Adler began the search for a permanent site. Source: University of Houston Digital Library. Source: University of Houston Digital Library. Also in 1976, the photography collection was established with Target Stores’ first corporate grant to the museum. Houston’s first modern light rail line, 7.5-miles long, begins operations.
KUHT-TV, the nation’s first public broadcast TV station, goes on the air. In the 1930s, Houstonian Annette Finnigan began her donation of antiquities and Texas philanthropist Ima Hogg gave her collection of avant-garde European prints and drawings. A WWI victory parade through the streets of downtown in 1918.
National Democratic Convention is held in Houston. Hurricane Harvey inundates Houston with five days of rain. This collection would never leave the MFAH, formally entering its holdings in 1998 as a gift of Life Trustee Audrey Jones Beck. Something went wrong while submitting the form. Main Street between Congress and Preston in 1856.
Edward Rudge Allen Jr. served as Board President and Museum trustee from 1984â1990. A Category 4 hurricane — deadliest in U.S. history — strikes Galveston, claiming more than 6,000 lives and causing property damage exceeding $30 million ($902 million in 2019 dollars).
Oops! Hobby Center for the Performing Arts opens. Houston Stonewalls defeat Galveston Robert E. Lees 35-2 in first recorded baseball game in Houston. Houston Left Hand Fishing Club purchases the city’s first automobile from Olds Motor Works of Detroit. [15] The museum's permanent collection more than tripled in size, to 63,000 works from 20,000. Today, the Military History Museum in Houston… A Junior League of Houston committee led by Ann McFarlane had spent a year traveling the country studying childrenâs programs of art and science museums, as well as those of the few childrenâs museums that existed then. The Museum celebrated its public grand opening at the Mary Gibbs Jones Building in the fall of 1992 under the Presidency of Kathryn L.E. George Hermann donates 285 acres to the city for a public park near Rice Institute. Congress appropriates $1 million for work on the Houston Ship Channel. Kidtechnics was a great success and validated going forward to establish a brick-and-mortar museum.
[15] During the 28-year tenure of Peter Marzio between 1982 and 2010, the Museum of Fine Arts’ yearly attendance increased to roughly two million from 300,000; its operating budget climbed to $52 million from $5 million, and its endowment reached $1 billion[13] (before the 2008 recession dropped its value to about $800 million).
1926 Natural gas first piped into Houston. The Houston Fat Stock Show, later the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, got its start in the 1930s.
Hobby Airport launches international service with the opening of the airport’s first international terminal. Source: University of Houston Digital Library. Texas’ oldest newspaper, The Galveston County Daily News, is first published. City Planning Commission recommends that Houston adopt a zoning ordinance but finds scant support. Houston College for Negroes acquired by Texas Legislature; established as Texas State University for Negroes (now Texas Southern University). I have loved the story of Texas since I was a child, and my passion for telling Texas history as it actually occurred has grown with each passing year. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), located in the Houston Museum District, Houston, is one of the largest museums in the United States. Stay up-to-date on what’s happening with the Partnership and Greater Houston region by opting-in to receive information on upcoming events, news, data releases and more. Allen Brothers call on Gail Borden (publisher, surveyor, originator of condensed milk) and Thomas H. Borden to survey the site. The MFAH's permanent collection totals 63,718 pieces in 300,000 square feet (28,000 m2) of exhibition space,[4] placing it among the larger art museums in the United States. Voters approve creation of Harris County Toll Road Authority. The school offers classes at the Studio School for Adults and the Glassell Junior School, as well as Community Bridge Programs, special programs for youths, and the Core Artist-in-Residence Program. City provides “land and good buildings” for a smallpox/yellow fever hospital. Rudgeâs son, Randy Allen, would later follow in his footsteps as Board President and become instrumental in the Museumâs expansion. Our Texas History Museum.
Houston’s first telephone exchange is created. Houston Fire Department replaces Houston Volunteer Fire Department. Since its establishment, the Childrenâs Museum of Houston has grown to serve more than one million children and families annually through onsite Museum attendance and community-based programs.