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Up next | June 10: Main Street & Montrose Boulevard
 After Rice University and Hermann Park opened in the early 1910s, the area now known as the Museum District became one of Houston's most desirable neighborhoods. It also became one of the city's most beautiful areas, thanks in part to a plan influenced by the City Beautiful movement and buildings designed by some of Houston's most prominent architects, including William Ward Watkin, Alfred C. Finn, Joseph Finger and MacKie & Kamrath.
Our walking tour includes the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston's complex, tracing its evolution from the original Watkin-designed building (pictured) through additions by Kenneth Franzheim, Luwdig Mies van der Rohe and Rafael Moneo, and also explores the museum's auxiliary buildings along Montrose Boulevard as well as Isamu Noguchi's Cullen Sculpture Garden. We will also discuss the charming 1920s-era neighborhoods of Chelsea Place, Cotswold Court and Colby Court, which were developed just north of the museum, and the imposing churches of Main Street.
Tickets will be sold beginning at 5:30 p.m. in front of the Jung Center, 5200 Montrose Boulevard. Admission is $10 per person ($7 for students with valid ID and Preservation Houston members). Children 11 and under are admitted free, and tour participants who walk, bike or ride public transit to the tour will receive a $2 discount on admission. Street parking is available free of charge near the Jung Center. The tour start point is also a short walk from MetroRail's Museum District station.
Please note that this is an exterior walking tour only. The tour will not visit the interiors of any buildings.
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Photo: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (1924, 1926, William Ward Watkin) by Jim Parsons. |
