Texas 3.svg State Highway 3 Main article: Mexican Texas By 1912 Houston was home to twenty-five "tall buildings" ranging from six to sixteen stories Office buildings extant in 1912 include the eleven-story Scanlan Building the marble-clad South Texas National Bank Building the eight-story First National Bank Building the twelve-story Union National Bank the ten-story Houston Chronicle Building and the Southwestern Telephone Company Building the sixteen-story Carter Building was the tallest in Houston There were two major passenger train facilities Union Station and Grand Central Station Residential buildings included the Beaconsfield apartments Rossonian apartments the Savoy flats and the Hotel Bender Under construction in 1912 was the Rice Hotel. . James W Flanagan settled in Henderson Rusk County All other public universities (25 in total) Intercity buses James W Flanagan settled in Henderson Rusk County. Cycling Don Pedro de Alvarado For classical choral music Houston has several active groups including Cantare Houston the Houston Boychoir Houston Ebony Music Society (also known as the Houston Ebony Opera Guild) and the internationally acclaimed Houston Chamber Choir the city is also home to one of the finest collegiate choral ensembles in the country the UH Moores School of Music Concert Chorale, Summer Automobile ownership The Lyric Centre sits in the heart of the Theater District just across the street from the Wortham Center and adjacent to the Alley Theatre the black-and-white striped office building houses dozens of law firms but the block on which the tower sits is perhaps best known for the giant cellist playing outside. It is the work of sculptor David Addickes who also created the statue of Sam Houston outside Huntsville Texas.
; Located near the Museum District are the Menil Collection Rothko Chapel and the Byzantine Fresco Chapel Museum, Houston has hosted several major sports events: the 1968 1986 and 2004 Major League Baseball All-Star Games; the 1989 2006 and 2013 NBA All-Star Games; Super Bowl VIII Super Bowl XXXVIII and Super Bowl LI as well as hosting the 1981 1986 1994 and 1995 NBA Finals winning the latter two and co-hosting the 2005 World Series and 2017 World Series winning the latter NRG Stadium hosted Super Bowl LI on February 5 2017. Piney Point Village La Salle's colonization expedition left France on July 24 1684 and soon lost one of its supply ships to Spanish privateers a combination of inaccurate maps La Salle's previous miscalculation of the latitude of the mouth of the Mississippi River and overcorrecting for the Gulf currents led the ships to be unable to find the Mississippi. Instead they landed at Matagorda Bay in early 1685 400 miles (644 km) west of the Mississippi in February the colonists constructed Fort Saint Louis, White Oak Bayou a major tributary of the Buffalo has its source in Jersey Village and travels 25 miles (40 km) southeast through Inwood Forest Oak Forest and the Houston Heights Brays Bayou another major tributary to the south originates near Mission Bend and travels 31 miles (50 km) through Alief Sharpstown Meyerland Braeswood Place the Texas Medical Center Riverside Terrace and the East End before meeting Buffalo Bayou at Harrisburg. In 1900 Texas suffered the deadliest natural disaster in U.S history during the Galveston hurricane on January 10 1901 the first major oil well in Texas Spindletop was found south of Beaumont Other fields were later discovered nearby in East Texas West Texas and under the Gulf of Mexico the resulting "oil boom" transformed Texas. Oil production eventually averaged three million barrels per day at its peak in 1972. Houston's bicycle sharing system started service with nineteen stations in May 2012 Houston Bcycle (also known as B-Cycle) a local non-profit runs the subscription program supplying bicycles and docking stations while partnering with other companies to maintain the system the network expanded to 29 stations and 225 bicycles in 2014 registering over 43,000 checkouts of equipment during the first half of the same year in 2017 Bcycle logged over 142,000 check outs while expanding to 56 docking stations.
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