ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Jessie Anderson – black historian

Thomas Anderson – attorney-at-law

Thu Nhi Barrus – opera expert

Vivian Bennett – my second biggest supporter

August C. Bering III – multigenerational Houstonian

Trevia Wooster Beverly – Texas historian

Kelly Blakley – Gandalf of Graphics

Lou Carvelli – CBI Corporation

Katherine Center – Heights resident

Betty Trapp Chapman – Houston historian

Sherrie Chisholm – Norhill Historic District

Karla Cisneros – Spring resident

Daughters of the Republic of Texas

Carl Detering Jr. – multigenerational Houstonian

Deborah Detering – multigenerational Houstonian

Gay Donehoo – editing assistant

George Donehoo – main man & research sidekick

Susan Smith Dorsey – Texas General Land Office

Joel Draut – Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Archives

Ivon Dupont – Heights resident

Lynn Edmundson – Historic Houston

Christine Farrier – Old West End Association

Kirk Ferris – Houston historian

Jan Gibson – Westmoreland Preservation Alliance

Dora Guerra – Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library

Virginia Hancock – Houston historian

Mary Lou Henry – Vernon Henry & Associates

Nancy Hernandez – Houston Chronicle

Barbara Bennett Hinton – chief editor and publisher of 1st Edition

C. Marks Hinton Sr. – old time Houstonian

Mocco Dunn Hinton – old time Houstonian

Dorothy Knox Houghton – Houston historian

Houston Heritage Society

Will Howard – manager, Texas Room, Houston Public Library

Vivian Seals Hubbard – Houston historian

Flossie Huckabee – Heights resident

Lee McClellan – River Oaks Property Owners Association

Leslie Mickellis – George’s Diner

Mary Catherine Farrington Miller – author

Syd Moen – Historic Houston

Terri Mote – Bellaire Library

Tracy Murley – Texas Medical Center

Randy Pace – Historical Preservation Officer, City of Houston

Patricia Smith Prather – Houston historian

Imogene Pulleine – LaPorte resident

Mary Ramos – Texas Almanac

John Raia – Senior Planner-Planning & Development, City of Houston

Tim Rice – thoroughbred-racing expert

Yvonne Robertson, Houston historian

Sister Wilfred Shorten – Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word

Staff at Texas Room (Ellen, Nina, Mirasol & Doug) – No request was too much

Harvey Strain – black historian

Mike Stude – multigenerational Houstonian

Courtney Key Tardy – Greater Houston Preservation Alliance

Paul Teten – Texas historian

Texas General Land Office and Texas Veterans Land Board

Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Bart Truxillo – architectural preservationist

Jerry Wood – Deputy Assistant Director-Planning & Development-City of Houston