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Houston Texas Business Directory The first Hattie Mae White Administration Building; it has been sold and demolished, Foreign relations According to the 2010 United States census the racial composition of Texas was the following:. Primary and secondary schools William Henry Huddle: Surrender of Santa Anna (1886; Texas State Capitol Austin); Extreme weather, Main article: Architecture of Houston, Deepwater Horizon explosion and oil spill Houston Texas Business Directory! When World War II started tonnage levels at the port decreased and shipping activities were suspended; however the war did provide economic benefits for the city Petrochemical refineries and manufacturing plants were constructed along the ship channel because of the demand for petroleum and synthetic rubber products by the defense industry during the war. Ellington Field initially built during World War I was revitalized as an advanced training center for bombardiers and navigators the Brown Shipbuilding Company was founded in 1942 to build ships for the U.S Navy during World War II Due to the boom in defense jobs thousands of new workers migrated to the city both blacks and whites competing for the higher-paying jobs President Roosevelt had established a policy of nondiscrimination for defense contractors and blacks gained some opportunities especially in shipbuilding although not without resistance from whites and increasing social tensions that erupted into occasional violence Economic gains of blacks who entered defense industries continued in the postwar years. Some other race: 10.5 percent, 16.8 Reconstruction Navigation It should be noted however that pollution rankings from the EPA and ALA are administered in terms of peak-based standards focusing strictly on the worst days of the year; on average ozone levels in Houston are lower than those seen in many other cities of the country due to dominant winds off the Gulf that ensure clean marine air. 1 Population demographics and government December 4 2009: Broke the earliest accumulating snowfall record, Universities in Texas host three presidential libraries: George Bush Presidential Library at Texas A&M University the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum at the University of Texas at Austin and the George W Bush Presidential Library at Southern Methodist University.

The Astrodome was added to the National Register of Historic Places in January 2014, A high rise building with many tiers and a ten-columned cupola topping it. Houston has sports teams for every major professional league except the National Hockey League the Houston Astros are a Major League Baseball expansion team formed in 1962 (known as the "Colt .45s" until 1965) that won the World Series in 2017 and previously appeared in 2005 It is the only MLB team to have won pennants in both modern leagues the Houston Rockets are a National Basketball Association franchise based in the city since 1971 They have won two NBA Championships one in 1994 and another in 1995 under star players Hakeem Olajuwon Otis Thorpe Clyde Drexler Vernon Maxwell and Kenny Smith the Houston Texans are a National Football League expansion team formed in 2002 the Houston Dynamo is a Major League Soccer franchise that has been based in Houston since 2006 winning two MLS Cup titles in 2006 and 2007 the Houston Dash team plays in the National Women's Soccer League the Houston SaberCats are a rugby team that plays in Major League Rugby! . ; ! While there are a few examples in the Heights of the columned Colonial Revival the most popular "elite" house type in the 1910 era other upscale houses were adapted from specific historical models popular in the 1920s such as the Shefer House with its Dutch Colonial gambrel roof and the stucco-surfaced Mediterranean villa-type Tibbott House on Harvard Street with French doors opening the interior of the house to its site and an east side loggia replacing the old-fashioned front porch. Since deed-restriction enforcement is mandated in the Heights area a majority of the houses built at the start of the 20th century and early 20th century still retain the old Heights character.