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Historic American Buildings Survey,
Engineering Record, Landscapes Survey
Emancipation Park, 3018 Dowling Street, Houston, Harris County, TX
- Title: Emancipation Park, 3018 Dowling Street, Houston, Harris County, TX
- Creator(s): Historic American Landscapes Survey, creator
- Related Names:
Lincoln, Abraham
Houston City Architect
Houston Park Department
Watkin, William Ward
Public Works Administration (PWA)
Hare & Hare
Houston City Planning Commission
Houston Board of Park Commissioners
Model Cities Program
Marmon Mork & Green, Inc.
Marmon & Mok Associates
Larvin Enterprises, Inc.
Houston Parks and Recreation Department
City of Houston
Almeda Corridors Redevelopment Authority
Partners for Public Spaces
Freelon, Phillip
Hamilton, A. J.
Granger, Gordon
Allen, Richard
Yates, Jack
Dibble, Elias
Wellborn, Sarah J.
Wellborn, Marshall C.
Wellborn, William
Brock, Richard
Keeland, Frank
Seesums, John
Rice, Johnson
Burk, Taylor
Rilley, Daniel
Graham, John
Bush, Tillman
Colored People of Harris County
Festival Association
Colored Emancipation Park Association (CEPA)
The Friends of Emancipation Park
Park Improvement Club
Stevens, Chris , transmitter
Stevens, Chris - Date Created/Published: Documentation compiled after 2000
- Medium: Data Page(s): 11
- Reproduction Number: ---
- Rights Advisory:
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html)
- Call Number: HALS TX-7
- Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
- Notes:
- Entry and Third Place Recipient (tie) 2011 HALS Challenge: Celebrating Cultural Landscapes of Diversity
- Significance: Since 1872, Emancipation Park has been the site of community and family celebrations for African-Americans in Houston. Although President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in January 1863, slavery in Texas did not end until June 19, 1865, when the Union Army landed at Galveston to enforce it. The anniversary of emancipation in Texas, known as Juneteenth, is now an official state holiday in more than 25 states in America and is celebrated around the world. As the site for the original Juneteenth celebration in 1866 and one of the first parks in America purchased by African-Americans specifically for this event, in 1872, Emancipation Park remains an important symbol of a turning point in Texas and United States history.
- Survey number: HALS TX-7
- Building/structure dates: ca. 1866 Initial Construction
- Building/structure dates: ca. 1872 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: ca. 1917 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: ca. 1921 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: ca. 1927 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: ca. 1938- ca. 1939 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: ca. 1948 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: ca. 1975 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: ca. 1987 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: ca. 1998 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: ca. 2008- ca. 2009 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: ca. 2011 Subsequent Work
- Subjects:
- Place:
- Latitude/Longitude: 29.737251, -95.365268
- Collections:
- Part of: Historic American Landscapes Survey (Library of Congress)
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- Reproduction Number: ---
- Call Number: HALS TX-7
- Medium: Data Page(s): 11
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- Call Number: HALS TX-7
- Medium: Data Page(s): 11
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