The Uptown District
Is
Home
To
Structures Designed
By
Architects Such
As
I
M
Pei
C�sar Pelli
And
Philip Johnson
Including Saint Martin's Episcopal Church (with Spires
And
Antennae Reaching 188 Feet (57 M) Into
The
Sky)
Which Was Designed
By
Jackson & Ryan Architects
And
Completed
In
2004
St
Martin's Was Featured
On
The
Covers Of Three National Magazines: Civil Engineering (April 2005)
Modern Steel Construction (May 2005)
And
Structure (December 2005)
The
San Jacinto Monument Is
A
570 Foot (173.7 M)-high Column Topped With
A
220-ton Star That Commemorates
The
Site Of
The
Battle Of San Jacinto
The
Decisive Battle Of
The
Texas Revolution
The
Monument
Dedicated
On
April 21
1939
Is
The World's Tallest Monument Tower
And
Masonry Tower
And
Is
Located Along
The
Houston Ship Channel
The
Column Is
An
Octagonal Shaft Faced With Cordova Shellstone
It
Is
The Second Tallest Monument
In
The
United States
The
Monument Was Designated
A
National Historic Landmark
On
December 19
1960
And
Listed
On
The
National Register Of Historic Places
It
Was Also Designated
An
Historic Civil Engineering Landmark
In
1992
. Hofheinz had
an
opulent apartment
in
the
Dome
which was removed when
the
facility was remodeled
in
1988, The Alamo Mission
painted 10 years after
the
battle
1939 1940 1941 1942!
. . Dan Jones International Airport
in
unincorporated northwestern Harris County
Texans
in
1909 marked
an
icon of progress with
the
construction of
the
first skyscraper west of
the
Mississippi
the
190-foot steel-frame skyscraper was
the
14-story Praetorian Building
housing
the
Praetorian Insurance Company
Dallas became
the
regional headquarters of
the
Federal Reserve
in
1914
strengthening its dominance of Texas banking
the
city had reached 260,000 population
by
1929 when
the
effects of
the
Stock Market Crash hit Texas
causing
a
sharp drop
in
the
prices of oil
cotton
and
cattle; growth came to
a
standstill. . .
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