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Architecture Walk: Allen’s Landing
January 14 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
$7 – $10
Event Admission
Admission is $10 per person for the general public ($7 for Preservation Houston members and students.) Children 11 years old and under are admitted free. Advance ticket purchase is required. Reservations are offered on a first-come, first-served basis. We are not able to accommodate walk-ups the day of the tour. There are no refunds for tour reservations. Registrants will receive parking and check-in information via e-mail. In the event of inclement weather that prevents the tour from being offered as planned, we will notify registrants as far in advance as possible about their options to attend a rescheduled tour or transfer their reservations to another Preservation Houston tour.
Allen’s Landing is sometimes called “Houston’s Plymouth Rock,” and with good reason: It is the spot where the city’s founders, Augustus and John Kirby Allen, are said to have set foot on the land that would become Houston. Allen’s Landing became the original site of the Port of Houston in 1840 and for many years was the center of trade in the city. The site fell into decline through the 20th century, but is now finding new life as a link in the system of parks being developed along Buffalo Bayou’s banks.
Our 90-minute, docent-guided walking tour of the neighborhood tells the story of Allen’s Landing and looks at historic buildings nearby, including turn-of-the-century warehouses, a former neighborhood saloon with a checkered past and the restored Willow Street Pump Station, the centerpiece of Houston’s first sewer system. We’ll also get a unique perspective on Allen’s Landing as we walk across the historic Main Street Viaduct, one of the city’s major public works projects of the 1910s.
