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Houston's Hermann Park : A Century of Community /

Richly illustrated with rare period photographs, Houston's Hermann Park: A Century of Community provides a vivid history of Houston's oldest and most important urban park. Author and historian Barrie Scardino Bradley sets Hermann Park in both a local and a national context as this grand pa...

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Autor principal: Bradley, Barrie Scardino, 1945-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, 2014.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Then -- Before Hermann Park, 1836-1909 -- Houston gets a park, 1910-1914 -- The Kessler Plan, 1915-1923 -- Hare & Hare, 1924-1951 -- No plan, 1952-1961 -- Other plans, 1962-1989 -- Now -- Community action -- Hermann Park Conservancy -- The Olin Plan -- It happens! -- Appendixes -- Appendix 1: Hermann Park-Houston chronology -- Appendix 2: Remarks of George Hermann, June 7, 1914 -- Appendix 3: Last will and testament of George Henry Hermann -- Appendix 4: Trees of Hermann Park -- Appendix 5: Birds of Hermann Park -- Appendix 6: Directors of the Hermann Park Conservancy (1992-2014) -- Appendix 7: The institutions of Hermann Park -- Bibliography -- Index. 
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