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Experience the past of Hermann Park with our History Guide! The guide features destinations with historical significance to help you navigate and imagine what the Park once was.
Hermann Park is a 445-acre (180-hectare) urban park in Houston, Texas, situated at the southern end of the Museum District. The park is located to the immediate north end of the MD Anderson Cancer Center at Texas Medical Center and Brays Bayou, east of Rice University, and slightly west of the Third Ward.
Interactive Map. Click on the checkboxes at the bottom to see more features & destinations in Hermann Park! Download a printable map. Amenities. Art in the Park. Cafe. Fountains, Monuments, Sculptures. McGovern Centennial Gardens. Parking.
Houston’s Hermann Park has been a treasured oasis of green and blue in the heart of the city since its open-ing nearly a century ago.
7 lut 2019 · Hermann Park has a pretty interesting history. George Hermann donated the land that encompasses the park to the city of Houston in 1914, only 6 months before he passed away from stomach cancer. Up until then Houston only had one park, Sam Houston Park (finished in 1899) which still welcomes visitors today.
1940s. - 1948 - Zoo expansion, construction of Miller Hill, lease of 4.5 acres to the Museum of Natural Science outside the zoo’s boundary. 1950s. - 1957 - Miniature Train opened in the park. - 1958 - “Grand basin” expanded and opened as 4-9-acre Hermann Park Lake. 1960s. - 1968 - Miller Outdoor Theatre.
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.
