Allen Brothers Commercial
Houston, TX
800-377-2292
800-377-2292
Allen Brothers main office - 1828 Bissonnet, Rice Museum District
Texas Corporation incorporated 1988 d/b/a:
Allen Brothers, COMMERCIAL
1828 Bissonnet St. at Woodhead, Houston, TX 77005
David P. Bryan, CCIM, CPM
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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 Lauraqv 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.qqv 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. In 1990 the landing was a dock for the Laura.
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 (http://www.lib.utexas.edu) and the Texas State Historical Association (http://www.tsha.utexas.edu). Copyright ©, The Texas State Historical Association, 1997-2002 Last Updated: July 23, 2002 Comments to: http://www.tshaonline.org/contact-us/handbook