Texas - Houston, 'Greetings From' Mural

Postcrossing
Hello from Houston, Texas
We had a great time at the sixth meet-up
Saturday March 11, 2017 11 AM During the
Houston Metro Postcard and Paper Show

Greetings from Houston
Mural by Artist Daniel Anguily
3601 White Oak Drive, Houston

Texas - Houston, NASA

NASA
Houston, Texas

Architectural view of Manned Spacecraft Center
National Aeronautics and Space Administration at Clear Lake, Harris County, Texas

Texas - Houston, Medical Center, Aerial View

Houston, Texas
The Ever Changing
Texas Medical Center

Photo by David Damiani

listed on the front:
The Methodist Hospital
University of Texas
St. Luke's Medical Towers
St. Luke's Hospital
Baylor Medical School Plaza
MD Anderson Hospital
Rice University
Texas Children's Hospital
Rotary House
Shriner's Hospital for Crippled Children
and
Children's Nutrition Research Center
2010

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The Texas Medical Center is the largest medical center in the world with one of the highest densities of clinical facilities for patient care, basic science, and translational research. Located in the Southeast Houston district of Houston, the center contains 49 medicine-related institutions, including 13 hospitals and two specialty institutions, two medical schools, four nursing schools, and schools of dentistry, public health, pharmacy, and other health-related practices. All 49 institutions are not-for-profit.

According to the Texas Medical Center, more heart surgeries are performed here than anywhere else in the world.

Texas - Houston Area Postcard Club

Houston Area Postcard Club
Welcome to the Fourth Largest City in the U.S.

National Postcard Week
May 2-9, 2010
Limited Edition, #45 of 100

Texas - Houston, The New Foley's Department Store

The New Foley's, Houston, Texas

The country's most modern Department Store, covers a Block and a Half in the Heart of Houston's Business District, at Main and Lamar.  The Main Building, Six and a Half Stories and Basement, is connected by Tunnel with a Five-Story Service and Garage Building in the rear.
1947

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Foley’s was a chain of department stores owned by May Department Stores and headquartered in Downtown Houston, Texas. As of August 30, 2005, the division was dissolved and operation of the stores was assumed by Federated's Macy's West and Macy's South divisions. On Sept 9, 2006 Foley's and all the regional May Co. stores names were phased out and rebranded as Macy's.

Foley’s started in 1900, but the above building opened its doors on October 20, 1947. They spent $13 million to build the new store, which was heralded by the press as the nation’s “most modern department store.”

Texas - Houston, Sam Houston Monument, Hermann Park

Sam Houston Monument at Entrance to Hermann Park, Houston, Texas

In memory of General Sam Houston, who defeated the Mexican General Santa Anna at San Jacinto, April 21st  22nd, 1836, liberation Texas from Mexican rule; elected President of the Republic of Texas, September, 1836, and served until Texas became a State of the Union in 1845; elected United States Senator 1846-1859; served as Governor from 1859 to 1861.

Texas - Houston, Rice Institute University

Lovett Hall or Administration Building, Rice Institute, Houston, Texas

Houston has in Rice Institute one of the largest privately endowed colleges in the country.  The original endowment of nine million dollars by the late Wm. Marsh Rice, has grown to 14,500.000.

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Administration Building and Physics Building, Rice Institute, Houston, Texas

Houston has in Rice Institute one of the largest privately endowed colleges in the country.  The original endowment of nine million dollars by the late Wm. Marsh Rice, has grown to 14,500.000.

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Music and Fine Arts Building, Houston, Texas

(Rice University) 

Photo by Bob Bailey

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Rice Institute Campus, Houston, Texas.

Long a big name in America's colleges, Rice is one of Houston's landmarks.  Thousands of young men and women are graduated annually from its schools.  In athletics and scholastics its ranking is generally among the top educational institutions.  Rice Institute is another reason why Houston is "America's fastest growing metropolitan city."

Kadachrome by Jack Taylor

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The history of Rice University began with the untimely demise of Massachusetts businessman William Marsh Rice. Rice made his fortune in real estate, railroad development, and cotton trading in the state of Texas. In 1891, Rice decided to charter a free-tuition educational institute in Houston, bearing his name, to be created upon his death, earmarking most of his estate towards funding the project. On the morning of September 23, 1900, Rice was found dead by his valet, and presumed to have died in his sleep. Shortly thereafter, a suspiciously large check made out to Rice's New York City lawyer, signed by the late Rice, was noticed by a bank teller due to a misspelling in the recipient's name. The lawyer, Albert T. Patrick, then announced that Rice had changed his will to leave the bulk of his fortune to Patrick, rather than to the creation of Rice's educational institute. A subsequent investigation led by the District Attorney of New York resulted in the arrests of Patrick and of Rice's butler and valet Charles F. Jones, who had been persuaded to administer chloroform to Rice while he slept. Rice's friend and personal lawyer in Houston, James A. Baker, Sr., aided in the discovery of what turned out to be a fake will with a forged signature. It took nearly ten years for Jones and Patrick to be found guilty of conspiring to steal Rice's fortune. Patrick was convicted of murder in 1901. Baker helped Rice's estate direct the fortune, worth $4.6 million in 1904 ($111 million today), towards the founding of what was to be called the Rice Institute.

Texas - Houston, City Hall, Josheph Finger, Inc. Architects

City Hall, Houston, Texas
Joseph Finger, Inc., Architects

10 story City Hall occupying central position in new civic center, completely air-conditioned.
1939

Texas - Houston, The Beer Can House, from La Quinta

Greetings From Route LQ (Hotel chain La Quinta)

This is what happens when ....
You Let A man Decorate

The Beer Can House
When John Milkovisch retired from his job as an upholsterer for Southern Pacific Railroad in 1968, he didn't just drink a few beers and lie around the house all day.  He drank 39,000 beers and used the empty cans to decorate his house.

222 Malone Street
Houston, Texas

Nearest la Quinta: 2 miles

With over 780 Locations, La Quinta Inns & Suites is everywhere you travel.
2010

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Houstonian John Milkovisch worked through the late 1960s to transform his Houston home at 222 Malone Street into the Beer Can House.  It is a folk art monument to eccentricity and recycling. The Beer Can House is now one of Houston's most recognizable folk art icons.

Milkovisch started his project in 1968 inlaying thousands of marbles, rocks, brass figures and metal pieces in concrete blocks and redwood, all of which were used to make patios, fences, flower boxes, and an array of other items. The result was a yard with no grass, as the entire front and back yards were covered with cement. When asked why he did it, John simply answered, “I got sick of mowing the grass.”

Today, the Beer Can House is owned and operated by The Orange Show Center for Visionary Art, a non-profit organization founded in 1980 to preserve and present works of extraordinary imagination and provide people the opportunity to express personal artistic vision.

Texas - Houston, Minute Maid Park, Baseball Stadium

Minute Maid Park
Houston, Texas

Home of the 2005 National League Champions, The Houston Astros.

Minute Maid Park is the jewel in the crown of the majestic downtown Houston skyline.  Having become the home to the Houston Astros, it has ushered in a new era of Major League sports in the city.

Photo: Russ Andorka
2014

Texas - Houston Skyline at Night with Fireworks

Houston, Texas
Houston is a world-class city that has something to offer everyone.  It is a very diverse and exciting community.  Houston is the largest city in Texas and the fourth largest city in the United States.

Photo: Jim Olive
2014

Texas - We Love Houston

Happy International Postcard Week
From my hometown of Huston, Texas
Celebrating the 1st International Postcard week
October 6-12, 2013
Angela Orlando

This postcard features a sculpture along the freeway in Houston.
We Love (Heart) Houston

Texas - Houston: Historic Sites

National Postcard Week
30th Annual NPCW
May 5-11, 2013

Enjoy some of the old sites of Houston: The Heights neighborhood, San Jacinto Battleground, Astrodome and the Colt's Field, and Allens' Landing Where Houston Began

limited edition 24 of 100
from Susan Nichols

Texas - Houston Museum of Natural Science, Butterfly Center

The Cockrell Butterfly Center is a spectacular four-story glass and steel structure housing a lush tropical environment, where you can see over a thousand brilliantly colored butterflies from around the world.

Houston Museum of Natural Science in Texas

Texas - Houston, Fannin School in 1910

Fannin School, Houston, Texas
1910