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Today I noticed a For Sale sign that said 1.58-Acres For Sale. The parcel is located across the street from 6017 Ardmore Street. The realty company listed is Integral Properties, Inc.
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There is a park that spans a few blocks called MD Anderson Wortham Linear Park that contains the Levit Family Garden located at 1212 Holcombe Boulevard. The small park actually has 2 separate water fountains! Impressive. I know who Gus Wortham is but I'm not sure who the Levit family would be. I assume the garden is named after Joe Levit, of Grocers Supply Company. The park starts on the outside of the Lowry and Peggy Mays Clinic.- 1 reply
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I never looked hard enough at this beautiful garden and fountain. I don't know who Dorothy Hudson is, but LeRoy Melcher is a commercial real estate developer. Smaller company with only a handful of properties but he has been in the business for a while. Spring season so the flowers are blooming! Very nice arrangement. Here are a few pictures I took over the weekend: The Dorothy H. Hudson Memorial Garden: Welcome to the Chrysalis Gardens, A Place of Healing and Discovery. Flame sculpture art. A symbol of knowledge, achievement, and hope for the future. Commissioned to mark the Golden Jubilee of The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and to honor patients and employees. Celebrated in 1991. LeRoy Melcher, Jr. Memorial Fountain A reminder that peace and tranquility, are best shared. A gift to the patients and employees of The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center from Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Melcher, Sr., LeRow Melcher III, Pierre Melcher, Marc Melcher, Dodd Melcher. And other devoted family members and friends Established 1990.
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The Texas Medical Center Parking Garage 14 located at 1919 South Braeswood Boulevard appears to be contract-only. The garage is a smaller structure. I wonder if they would ever demolish the building an add onto their Administrative campus on Greenbriar and Braeswood. Photos I took this weekend:
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Interesting to note, the Texas Medical Center Parking Garage 11 located at 1102 Bates Avenue is contract-only. This isn't a public garage. I do wonder if a patient could apply for a monthly parking pass, just as an employee of the TMC would. The building/street signage is kind of hidden. I believe it's not well displayed because it's a private garage. Photos I took over the weekend:
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This building isn't very well marked. I never knew this was number 2. This is the Texas Medical Center Parking Garage 2 located at 6740-6798 Bertner Avenue. The Texas Medical Center Police has a police station on the bottom floor of the garage. Here are a few photos I took this weekend.
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Designed by Alfred C. Finn in 1945, the Naval Hospital was located on a 118-acre site donated by the George H. Hermann Estate. In 1946, the hospital transferred into the United States Veterans Administration Hospital. Edit: This would have been at Marlborough Drive and Almeda Road. Marlborough Drive was renamed to Holcombe Boulevard a decade later. The Naval hospital sits exactly where the current Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center is located. The address to the current VA hospital is 2002 Holcombe Blvd if you want to use it as a reference, or mapping point. I researched, for weeks, the address on Marlborough Drive. I could never find it. Should we just use the current VA hospital address? 2002 Marlborough Drive? If I recall correctly, there was a Baylor College of Medicine team working at the Naval hospital as well. Maybe even MD Anderson and Hermann Hospital as well? Found a rare photo of the Naval Hospital building signage. You don't see this everyday.
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The Institute for Religion and Health located at 1129 Wilkins Boulevard was demolished to make way for the Houston Methodist Research Institute. ISH now has located further south to 8100 Greenbriar Drive. Original building was cool. The building featured a tall, slender tower.
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This post office isn't well known, or spoken about much. Post offices in Upper Kirby and The Heights are often discussed. This is the United States Post Office Medical Center Station located 7205 Almeda Road. After researching the building for more information, it seems that the building is sitting empty. In August 2023, the post office had closed temporarily. Not sure if it's even open today? Could see a redevelopment here if the post office remains closed. Stopped by today to take a photo of the building.
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Today I discovered a whole new building! Hidden away behind the Cullen Building, is the Jesse H. Jones Building. I believe within the building there is a space called Anderson Hall. Presumably named after Monroe Dunaway Anderson. All the old oil wildcatters definitely donated a lot to our Texas Medical Center. Lots of buildings are named after The Cullens, The Fondrens, The Alkeks, The Jones', etc. One strange thing I noticed is John H. Kirby didn't donate much to the TMC. I don't think there are buildings named after him. The Kirby family must not have been into philanthropy. His career was lumber and eventually petroleum, so maybe not a wildcatter like the rest of them. Edit: Here's the photo I took today:
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Forgot about the Baylor College of Medicine The Vivian and Bob Smith Medical Research Building. Very cool green space and fountain! Love how it creates a peaceful place that's sandwiched on all sides with buildings. The building was undergoing a fresh paint job and power washing. Good for them for taking care of the place. Photos I took today:
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A little confusing. Didn't Houston Methodist demolish a hospital called West Pavilion? Although, I believe that was the nickname and the proper name was medical related? Maybe the old West Pavilion was demolished for a direct replacement? I'll have to find the Historic Houston thread on the (now demolished) hospital for better clarification. I wanted to research more about this so today I sopped by the Houston Methodist West Pavilion located at 6447 Main Street. Here are the photos I took.
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It looks like Baylor College of Medicine has two buildings named after Albert & Margaret Alkek. This tower is located at 6450 East Cullen Street and appears relatively new. Built in the past 20 years? The design is really good and stands out among the rest. I would even like this tower to be somewhere more prominent so more people could see it. If this was a long the "Fannin Strip". Here''s a photo of the building I took today:
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Another parking garage supporting the MD Anderson Main Building and the Houston Methodist Inpatient campus. The Texas Medical Center Parking Garage 6 is located At 1329 Moursund Street. Today I stopped by to take a few quick photos. The building is a little basic. Regular old pre-cast garage. The TMC skyline on the graphics on the pay stations is awesome! How I miss those two hypodermic needles a long Fannin Street.
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Today I stopped by the MD Anderson Operations And Maintenance Building located at 7510 Bertner Avenue. In the spare space, MDACC keeps drinking water in a shiny truck. I thought it was cool how there was an MD Anderson branded tanker truck. Pictures I took today:
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MD Anderson has office space in the GreenPark One Medical Office Building located at 7515 Main Street. I thought recently there was a change of ownership in the GreenPark buildings? I remember a few months ago there was building signage being removed. I stopped by today to snap a quick photo. It's actually not a bad looking MOB. Has that "tower" look. Gensler designed this?
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I visit the Texas Medical Center Parking Garage 7 located at 1120 John Freeman Boulevard once a week. It's actually a very nice garage and was recently being re-painted this past month. Sometimes I feel like the garage isn't big enough and needs to double its capacity. On a busy day, the garage is 90% full and the only parking spaces remaining is on the top floor. Let's build more!! I thought the TMC parking rates went up, but I don't mind paying the $5. Sometimes I get out in under 15 minutes and its free! The parking ticket system is amazing. LAZ Parking and the TMC built some really nice parking stations. During the COVID-19 Pandemic, they switched to contactless. You just wave your hand in front of the screen and you will get a ticket. Photos I took today: For once, the TMC skyline is portrayed. Love the graphics!
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The Texas Medical Center Garage 5 located at 1001 Holcombe Boulevard has a unique, curvy in parts, design. It looks like a 1950s MOD to me! I wonder the architect? Today I stopped by to take a quick picture. The curvy part is facing the MD Anderson Main Campus. Looks like I got the rear of the building.
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Today I stopped by the Texas Medical Center Garage 17 located at 1653 South Braeswood Boulevard. Interesting enough, the garage has a sky bridge to the MD Anderson Jesse H. Jones Rotary House International Hotel. I wonder if MDA leases apart of it from the TMC? Maybe a few of the top floors are allocated to MDACC. Photos I took today:
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In 1951, the The Wiess Memorial Chapel was built in the Houston Methodist campus at the Texas Medical Center. Decades later, the chapel was disabled and placed back together inside the Houston Methodist Dunn Tower which is resides today. I'd love to go look sometime. I'll have to ask my chaplain friend of they want to go visit with me. Here's a brochure/flyer from the 1950s regarding The Wiess Memorial Chapel. I'll look for actual photos of the building later on this week. Maybe the City of Houston Public Library Digital Collections will have a picture? Edit: Found a photo of the historic chapel! The chapel was located to the right of the hospital. Closer view:
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I just discovered that there really is 3 different buildings. On surface level, you see 3 different names beneath the same building. I always thought each family contributed to the building. Edit: Still doesn't explain the Alkek Tower? While looking on satellite to see each building, sure enough they are separate. TMC is dense! The Houston Methodist Brown Building is the one with the helipad on the roof. Street level photo I took last weekend.
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The different buildings a long Fannin Street are a little hard to tell apart. The area is so dense that all the buildings just blend right in together. Looking at the engravement in the brick in the front of the building, this is the Houston Methodist The Roy And Lillie Cullen Eye Institute located at 6565 Fannin Street. Established and built in 1971, with the donation gift of the Cullen family. Here are two photos of the building I took last weekend:
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Another Memorial Hermann hospital that isn't well known (in the architecture world) is the Jones Pavilion named after Jesse H. Jones. Kind of a brutalist design, not much to it. It does feel imposing, it's a large building. Here is a photo I took yesterday. It's the tower.
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I actually did not know the original 1925 Hermann Hospital is still standing. The building is covered up, or hidden, by the Heart & Vascular Institute. Last week, I tried to take a photo of the building but I couldn't see it at the time. Original, from the 1920s: 2024, satellite view:
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The MD Anderson Clinical Research Building At 6767 Bertner Avenue has a very distinct topping on the roof. I've been looking at the copper? features for years and never knew the name of the building. Today I finally figured out the building's name. I wonder what they're for? Also, what's the small building in front? I would assume a garage, but I believe it's a supportive plant for the building?
