So successful in it's White Linen Nights venture, the heights is bringing back the merriment and cheer of getting together with neighbors and retailers, to create a sorta national night out. Well, sorta. During the day. Stop by lots and lots of Heights area retailers for a shopping extravaganza. "The event showcases the Heights faithfully - profiling the people, the shop owners, the artists and the businesses that make the Heights a classy, progressive,...
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You might not have heard of Olivewood Cemetery, a black graveyard founded in the 1870s on land where freed slaves were once buried. Olivewood is still with us today, at 1300 Court St. (behind the Grocers Supply warehouse at Studemont and Hicks), but it's largely overgrown and forgotten — though it won't be for long if two groups vying to become its caretaker have their way. The question now, though, is which group will win...
The Greater Houston Preservation Alliance continues its monthly walking tours this weekend in the historic Woodlands Heights.
Houston City Council passed amendments to the current preservation ordinance that will make it easier for residents to designate neighborhoods as historic districts, and a two year building permit penalty if any historic landmark or structure in a historic district is demolished. For district designation, there will need to be a 51% consent of property owners, down from 67%. The permit penalty will prohibit the city from granting building permits for a site where a...
First Saturday in the Heights & Yale Street Arts Market Heights First Saturday is a day full of shopping, activities, and food designed to bring people from all over the city to the Heights area. This month, in addition to their usual self-proclaimed "small-town cool," will be featuring sign-up for spring classes at HITS Theater, a Heights area food pantry drive, and Buchanan's Blood Drive. Their website features more information about drop-off places for the...
The first Saturday of each month Heights residents--and just plain old lovers of the historic 'hood--descend upon a 10 block area between I-10 and 610, bordered by N. Main and Shepherd, for art, shopping, music, and fun. Convenient shuttles run from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm, and stop at most of the major attractions.
On Sundays, Houstonist runs opinion pieces relevant to life in Houston. The opinions expressed below are entirely those of the author. In a city that favors tearing down and rebuilding rather than refurbishing and reusing, the Houston Heights has always stood as a community with a lot of old school flavor. Though less than five miles from downtown, the Heights feels like its own little town (actually, the Heights was its own municipality until 1919)....
Just when you thought Houston embodied the epitome of apathy, two folks have gotten the attention of not only City Hall and the newspapers, but also citizens who want to get involved. Sheila Sorvari and Mark Sterling, the group's founders, have the right idea, too: be heard, and take action now. From the article in the Chronicle:
"This is a short-term project," said Sorvari of Save the Bungalows, which she launched in April in an effort to form a coalition of residents to petition city leaders to create new preservation laws. "Either we achieve our goals in the next few years, or there won't be anything left to save."more ›
Houstonist appreciates all kinds of houses, but for our (imaginary) money, you can't beat a 1920s bungalow. The porches, the big windows, the cool built-ins — they just seem like home to us. Unfortunately, developers seem to be in a rush to tear as many of them down as possible, so it's really nice when we run across a fantastic restoration job like this house in the Houston Heights.
We love the Historic Houston Heights. We admit it. And pretty much any news about it, for Houstonist, is good news. On Feb. 8, someone got some very good news and won the $64 million Texas Lotto grand prize and the ticket came from a Heights-area store.
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