National Register of Historic Places listings in Harris County, Texas

Summary


This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places in Harris County, Texas. It is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Harris County, Texas, United States.

Location of Harris County in Texas
Contents: NRHP listings by area in Harris County  
downtown Houston - Houston Heights - inner Harris County - outer Harris County


          This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted April 12, 2024.[1]


Number of listings by area edit

The properties are distributed across Harris County. There is a concentration in "Downtown Houston", defined as the area enclosed by Interstate 10, Interstate 45, and Interstate 69. More than 100 are in the "Houston Heights" neighborhood whose borders are, approximately, Highway I-10 on the South, I-610 on the North, 45 on the East and Durham on the West. The "inner Harris County" area is defined as the rest of the area within the Interstate 610 loop; "outer Harris County" is defined as the rest of Harris County. There are no listings at all in a few of Houston's exclaves, which extend even beyond the Harris County borders.

 
Former Houston Post-Dispatch Building, downtown
 
Eaton House, Houston Heights
Area # of Sites
1 Downtown Houston 46
2 Houston Heights 123
3 Inner Harris County 98
4 Outer Harris County 33
(Duplicates): (0)[2]
Total: 300
 
Hill Street Bridge over Buffalo Bayou, inner Harris County
 
Houston National Cemetery, outer Harris County

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ National Park Service, United States Department of the Interior, "National Register of Historic Places: Weekly List Actions", retrieved April 12, 2024.
  2. ^ None for now.

External links edit

  • University of Houston Digital Library: vintage photo of the Houston Cotton Exchange Building in the early 20th−century