Tour tells of history of Second Ward area
By Danny Perez
(Houston Chronicle article featuring historic Second Ward and Frost
Town)
The historic Frost Town site is a significant element
within the James Bute Park. We host historic site tours for the Greater
Houston Preservation Alliance and the Rice Design Alliance. We continue
to expand our fundraising and active pursuit of additional property
to conserve as park. AEA also is in a legal process in District Court
129 to resolve title issues on 10,000 square feet of critical Frost
Town property.
At the end of 1999 and the beginning of 2000, Art and
Environmental Architecture raised $62,000 in contributions for the acquisition
of remaining private lots in the Frost Town Addition, to expand the
park as a historic site. Additional cash funds are still being raised
to secure remaining non-government owned sites that are part of the
original Frost Town Addition.
In early 2000, AEA began working in partnership
with the Second Ward Association as part of the Mayor Lee Brown's agenda
for neighborhood-oriented government. The Second Ward area has been
named a Super Neighborhood by the Mayor's office. With the City of Houston's
Director of Public Works and Engineering, Jerry King, AEA became part
of a public Capital Investment Project (CIP) in conjunction with the
Building Services Department. Several million dollars will be spent
on embellishments to city-owned rights-of-way at the Frost Town Historic
Site, and these will include Frost Town.
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