Allen Brothers Office,  Rice Museum District, Houston, TX 77005

The Principals

David P. Bryan

• Licensed Texas Real Estate Broker since 1986.
• Member Since 1984: National, Texas and Houston Association of Realtors
• Member since 1996: CCIM-National*, CCIM-Houston/Gulf Coast Chapter, IREM-Houston Chapter, NAR, TAR, and HAR
• Member since 2009: CPM-International**, Institute of Real Estate Management-IREM-International, IREM-Houston Chapter

*A Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) is a recognized expert in the disciplines of commercial and investment real estate. A CCIM is an invaluable resource to the commercial real estate owner, investor, and user, and is among an elite corps of 7,000 professionals across North America who hold the CCIM designation — the “Ph.D. of commercial real estate.”

**A Certified Property Manager (CPM) is a member of an international community of real estate managers and asset managers across all property sectors who are dedicated to ethical business practices and maximizing the value of real estate. An affiliate of NAR, a CPM is a trusted source of knowledge, advocacy and networking for the real estate community.

Susan Allen-Bryan

• Licensed Texas Real Estate Agent since 1987 specializing in high end residential properties primarily in the inner-loop Houston area.
• Member since 1987: National, Texas, and Houston Association of Realtors

The Allen Brothers, Founders of Houston

ALLEN’S LANDING, TEXAS. Allen’s Landing is located at the site of the original city of Houston on the south bank of Buffalo Bayou and a fork of White Oak Bayou in central Harris County. The landing, at a natural turning basin, originally served as a boat dock for Houston real estate development at the “head of navigation” on Buffalo Bayou. Oceangoing ships, steamers, and sailing vessels loaded from its wharves, and the steamer Laura first docked there on January 26, 1837. The city of Houston officially established the port in June 1841, and in 1910 the federal government approved funding for the dredging of a ship channel from the Gulf to the present turning basin four miles to the east of Allen’s Landing. A historical marker was placed at the nearly two-acre park site when it was dedicated as Allen’s Landing Memorial Park in 1967. The park serves as a memorial to Houston founders John K. and Augustus Chapman Allen. The Southern Pacific Railroad also donated 4,000 square feet of land to the park, which was developed by the Houston Chamber of Commerce, the City of Houston, and the Harris County Navigation District.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Houston Metropolitan Research Center Files, Houston Public Library. Marie Phelps McAshan, A Houston Legacy: On the Corner of Main and Texas (Houston: Gulf, 1985). David G. McComb, Houston: The Bayou City (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1969; rev. ed., Houston: A History, 1981). Ray Miller, Ray Miller’s Houston (Houston: Cordovan Press, 1982).

Diana J. Kleiner Recommended citation: ALLEN’S LANDING, TX. The Handbook of Texas Online. The Handbook of Texas Online is a joint project of The General Libraries at the University of Texas at Austin and the Texas State Historical Association. Copyright © The Texas State Historical Association, 1997-2002. Last Updated: September 4, 2016. Comments to: TSHA Comments Page.