Houston Historical Tours

Houston Historical Tours We conduct tours across Houston, Texas, and the South. We customize tours from 1 person to busloads of people.

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Hi everyone. Day 2 of Beryl. Without electricity and Wifi, I am largely unable to communicate with the world. Recepti...
07/09/2024

Hi everyone. Day 2 of Beryl. Without electricity and Wifi, I am largely unable to communicate with the world. Reception is impossible at home. The temperature is 98F/37C with feel like temperatures of 108F/42C. I spent this morning cutting down branches and hauling them to the forest behind my house. I am taking 2 and 3 cold-watered showers each day. Right now, I am in my air conditioned minivan in a Home Depot parking lot. My phone is charging. It is up to 30%. Home Depot has its own generators and is open while almost everything else is closed with no traffic light working. This is what my front lawn looks like. The tree destruction is overwhelming. Yesterday, a neighbor came over to help me greatly in cutting down smaller branches to make a clearing to enable my security gates to open to drive out my vehicle. Life goes on.

Although everyone's experiences are different, Hurricane Beryl has done more damage than all previous hurricanes that I ...
07/09/2024

Although everyone's experiences are different, Hurricane Beryl has done more damage than all previous hurricanes that I have been experience. Over 2.5 million people, including me, are without electricity with no indication of when power will return. The longest I have gone without electricity twice has been 5 days with Hurricane Ike in 2008 and Winter Storm Yuri in February 2021. In my backyard, I have multiple gutters hanging, a fence with a neighbor's property knocked down, patio and deck furniture knocked around. In my front yard a major tree's crown was taken off. Most of my front yard, driveway, and sidewalk are covered with massive tree damage.

Good afternoon, everyone. I have lived through over 1/2 dozen major hurricanes (Alicia in 1983, Erin in 1995 in Florid...
07/07/2024

Good afternoon, everyone. I have lived through over 1/2 dozen major hurricanes (Alicia in 1983, Erin in 1995 in Florida, Rita in 2005, Ike in 2008, Patricia in 2015, Harvey in 2017, and Imelda in 2019) and several minor ones and tropical storms over the past 52 years in Texas and Florida. For those of you who are unfamiliar with events here is a short timeline for today:
11:15 AM - Tranquil, peaceful day.
11:17 AM - Listening to distant thunder.
11:28 AM - The house is starting to vibrate due to the nearness and power of the thunder.
11:30 AM - The sky has become overcast.
11:31 AM - The temperature begins to fall 9 degrees from 89 to 80 degrees within 30 minutes.
11:32 AM - My wind chimes are playing music due to the increase in wind velocity.
11:33 AM - The first wave of rain start pouring heavily.

Within 18 minutes, the day transformed from a hot, quiet, and serene day to a tumultuous day with recurrent showers and temperature fluctuations that will probably last at least 48 hours.

One can become nonchalant when you accept hurricanes, the loss of electricity, sporadic flooding, runs on gas stations, empty grocery store shelves, and more as a normal part of life. This too will pass.

Happy Independence Day everyone. Be safe.
07/05/2024

Happy Independence Day everyone. Be safe.

Hi everyone. Are you enjoying the heat and humidity? Here are 4 photos of the interior of the Teen How Buddhist Temple...
07/02/2024

Hi everyone. Are you enjoying the heat and humidity? Here are 4 photos of the interior of the Teen How Buddhist Temple. Notice that one set of figures are all women. The temple is beautiful.

Good morning, friends. Last week, on the Religious Sites Tour, the couple and I also visited a Buddhist temple. All Bu...
06/28/2024

Good morning, friends. Last week, on the Religious Sites Tour, the couple and I also visited a Buddhist temple. All Buddhist temples are beautiful. Here are 4 exterior photos. Nearly all Buddhist temples have ponds with koi fish and insect sticks in a shrine with sand outside that help create a peaceful surroundings before you enter. Enjoy.

Good morning everyone. Here are 4 more photos of the interior of the Chapel of St. Basil on the University of St. Thoma...
06/26/2024

Good morning everyone. Here are 4 more photos of the interior of the Chapel of St. Basil on the University of St. Thomas. Architect Philip Johnson put the 14 Stations of the Cross into the western wall. The 14 Stations of the Cross can be found in virtually all Catholic churches, but this simple method is virtually unique. The Stations of the Cross are symbolic of the 14 places that Jesus fell while carrying the cross to the site where he would be crucified. You can also see the organ pipes, a statue of the Virgin Mary and Jesus, the front of the chapel with light shining through the sun roof directly over the crucifix, and the couple pretending that they were taking their marriage vows again. Enjoy.

Good afternoon everyone. Here are 4 photos from the beautifully simple Catholic Chapel of St. Basil on the University o...
06/24/2024

Good afternoon everyone. Here are 4 photos from the beautifully simple Catholic Chapel of St. Basil on the University of St. Thomas (UST) campus. The great architect Philip Johnson designed it and the crooked cross symbol of UST. This site was on the Religious Sites Tour last week. Three of the photos are from the outside and one photo is inside the chapel. The only interior window is the crooked cross that shines light on all worshippers.

Hi ladies and gentlemen. Here are 4 more photos from the religious sites tour that I conducted on Thursday for a couple...
06/22/2024

Hi ladies and gentlemen. Here are 4 more photos from the religious sites tour that I conducted on Thursday for a couple. These are from the downtown Islamic Da'wah Center, a mosque. This building was built in 1928 as Houston National Bank. You are looking at the prayer hall, where the imam stands, and the ceiling. Enjoy.

Hi everyone. Today, I conducted a 7-hour Religious Sites Tour for a couple who are repeat customers. I took them insid...
06/21/2024

Hi everyone. Today, I conducted a 7-hour Religious Sites Tour for a couple who are repeat customers. I took them inside a Buddhist temple, Catholic chapel, Islamic mosque, Jewish temple, and a non-denominational chapel. We also drove by a Greek Orthodox Cathedral. Here are 4 photographs inside the temple.

Good wet day everyone. About 3 weeks ago, I made a post with a couple on a Religious Sites Tour. Most of the sites wer...
06/19/2024

Good wet day everyone. About 3 weeks ago, I made a post with a couple on a Religious Sites Tour. Most of the sites were Christian institutions. They liked it so much that they requested a second Religious Sites Tour of mostly non-Christian sites. This, tomorrow we will visit Buddhist, Taoist, Islamic, and Jewish houses of worship in addition to a couple of Christian chapels and lunch stop in 5-hours. I will later have more photos. In the meantime, here are some photos from outside the Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart. Enjoy.

Hi everyone! I led a Religious Sites Tour on Friday for a couple who have called Houston home for decades, but had not e...
06/02/2024

Hi everyone! I led a Religious Sites Tour on Friday for a couple who have called Houston home for decades, but had not explored many of the city's religious sites. We visited four houses of worship, a cathedral-like building, and drove by eight other worship centers. Here are four photos from our visit to Christ Church Episcopal Cathedral, where we also stopped for lunch at Treebeards. This structure is from 1893. Guess which stained-glass window is a Tiffany? LOL. Enjoy.

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