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Architecture Walk: Turner Addition
July 21 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 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.
The story of Turner Addition began in 1871 when Nathaniel P. Turner platted the neighborhood more than two miles outside the Houston city limit, apparently anticipating that the city’s growth would soon fill the gap between his subdivision and civilization. As it turned out, development in Turner Addition didn’t begin until the late 1910s, when an extension of Montrose Boulevard finally linked the area with the rest of Houston. With Rice University, Hermann Park and the Museum of Fine Arts located nearby, Turner found itself at the epicenter of fashionable development in the interwar period.
Today, the Museum District neighborhood contains a fascinating variety of 20th-century residential architecture ranging from picturesque 1920s suburban homes to modern and postmodern townhouses from the 1970s and ’80s. Our 90-minute, docent-guided walking tour traces the development of the neighborhood and includes work by prominent architects such as William Ward Watkin, Alfred C. Finn, Howard Barnstone and Carlos Schoeppl.
This is an exterior architecture tour only. The tour will not go inside any buildings. There are no public restrooms along the tour route.
