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Bayou Bend is a 14-acre (5.7 ha) facility of the Museum of Fine Arts that houses one of America's most prominent collections of decorative art paintings and furniture Bayou Bend is the former home of Houston philanthropist Ima Hogg; . Other devastating Texas hurricanes include the 1915 Galveston hurricane Hurricane Audrey in 1957 which killed over 600 people Hurricane Carla in 1961 Hurricane Beulah in 1967 Hurricane Alicia in 1983 Hurricane Rita in 2005 and Hurricane Ike in 2008 Tropical storms have also caused their share of damage: Allison in 1989 and again during 2001 and Claudette in 1979 among them. Homes in the Heights have varied architectural styles including Victorian Craftsman and Colonial Revival the neighborhood is composed of several large homes and many smaller cottages and bungalows many built in the late 19th and early 20th century. After 1905 Victorian cottages tended to be replaced by bungalows, Bunker Hill Village The Gulf Building now called the JPMorgan Chase building is an Art Deco skyscraper Completed in 1929 it remained the tallest building in Houston until 1963 when the Exxon Building surpassed it in height Designed by architects Alfred C Finn (designer of the San Jacinto Monument) Kenneth Franzheim and J.E.R Carpenter the building is seen as a realization of Eliel Saarinen's acclaimed second-place entry to the Chicago Tribune Tower competition Restoration of the building was started in 1989 in what is still considered one of the largest privately funded preservation projects in American history. . When Europeans arrived in the Texas region there were several races of Native peoples divided into many smaller tribes They were Caddoan Atakapan Athabaskan Coahuiltecan and Uto-Aztecan the Uto-Aztecan Puebloan peoples lived neared the Rio Grande in the western portion of the state the Athabaskan-speaking Apache tribes lived throughout the interior the Caddoans controlled much of the Red River region and the Atakapans were mostly centered along the Gulf Coast at least one tribe of Coahuiltecans the Aranama lived in southern Texas This entire culture group primarily centered in northeastern Mexico is now extinct It is difficult to say who lived in the northwestern region of the state originally By the time the region came to be explored it belonged to the fairly well-known Comanche another Uto-Aztecan people who had transitioned into a powerful horse culture but it is believed that they came later and did not live there during the 16th century it may have been claimed by several different peoples including Uto-Aztecans Athabaskans or even Dhegihan Siouans, Main article: Eastern Front (World War II), Houston Texas Business Directory.

Further information: List of University Interscholastic League events As of the colonial period Texas was largely divided between 6 culture groups the Caddoan peoples occupied the area surrounding the entire length of the Red River Upon contact with Europeans they formed four collective confederacies known as the Natchitoches the Hasinai the Wichita & the Kadohadocho (Caddo) All four of them held some land in what is now Texas. Along the Gulf Coast region were the Atakapa tribes with at least one Coahuiltecan tribe (a culture group primarily from Northeast Mexico) a little further west on the Rio Grande Largely between the Rio Grande & Peco River were the Puebloan peoples part of an extensive civilization of tribes that lived in what are now the states of Texas New Mexico Colorado & Utah While the northern-most groups faced a cultural collapse due to a drought many of the southern tribes survive to the present North of the Pueblos were the Apachean tribes Although commonly referred to as one single nation they are actually a culture group. North of the Apacheans in the Northern Panhandle region were the Comanches; ; The solution was to install a new type of artificial grass on the field ChemGrass which became known as AstroTurf Because the supply of AstroTurf was still low only a limited amount was available at the start of the 1966 season There was not enough for the entire outfield so the first phase covered only the traditional grass portion of the infield and foul territory at a cost of $2 per square foot it was installed in time to test out during exhibition games against the Dodgers in March the outfield remained painted dirt until after the All-Star Game the team was sent on an extended road trip before the break and on July 19 the installation of the outfield portion of AstroTurf was completed for a game with the Phillies thus covering the entire field with AstroTurf. Groundskeepers dressed as astronauts kept the turf clean with vacuum cleaners between innings the infield dirt remained in the traditional design with a large dirt arc similar to natural grass fields. District 9 Al Green Democratic 2004 Alief Southwest Houston Houston's Southside Houston's environmental problems stem from a long history of pollution Houston may be considered the air-conditioning capital of the world due to its hot and humid metropolitan Since the 1930s air-conditioning was built into all commercial buildings like theaters malls and corporations Even the Astrodome was air-conditioned making baseball players and fans comfortable for decades This led to the possibility of an energy crisis because of the popularity of air-conditioning in Houston energy costs are generally higher than normal. The Rice University Kinder Institute for Urban Research a think tank has described Greater Houston as "one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse metropolitan areas in the country". Houston's diversity fueled by large waves of immigrants has been attributed to its relatively low cost of living strong job market proximity to Latin America and role as a hub for refugee resettlement a 2012 Kinder Institute report found that based on the evenness of population distribution between the four major racial groups in the United States (non-Hispanic white non-Hispanic black Hispanic or Latino and Asian) Greater Houston was the most ethnically diverse metropolitan area in the United States ahead of New York City in 2017 according to the U.S Census Bureau non-Hispanic whites made up 24.9% of the population of Houston proper Hispanics or Latinos 44.5% Blacks or African Americans 22.9% and Asians 6.7%.