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It is constructed of red brick in the Shadow Lawn Historic District. The home was designed by architect Vance D. Phenix. It was originally owned by Dr. Robert A. Johnston (1895-1972), a prominent ...
Pictured are damaged bricks in the historic Freedmen’s Town neighborhood in Houston on Thursday, June 5, 2025. "I don’t want to think about (Johnson) not being there to stop it," Fletcher said.
The historic building, more than 100 years old, now houses both the Houston Police Department’s Central Patrol Station and Special Operations division.
Houston’s Central Patrol Station and Special Operations have been renovated and unveiled, and a new shared parking garage for ...
The Mystery Castle in Phoenix, Ariz. (Robert Graham) Back in the 1930s, an untrained architect in Phoenix, Ariz., built a ramshackle structure resembling a sandcastle from found materials.
HOUSTON, Texas – Doris Ellis Robinson, founder and president of the Freedmen’s Town Preservation Coalition, reported that contractors damaged historic bricks in Houston’s Fourth Ward on ...