Fifth Ward Neighborhood Mural

Welcome to the Fifth Ward 

Mosaic Mural at School named in honor of late Congressman Mickey Leland

Mickey Leland College Preparatory Academy for Young Men

Mickey Leland College Preparatory Academy for Young Men is a boys' secondary school in the Fifth Ward opened in 2011 in the former E.O. Smith Education Center campus. The HISD magnet school is named after George Thomas "Mickey" Leland (November 27, 1944 – August 7, 1989), a civil rights leader, advocate for poor people, TSU graduate, and local politician who served in the Texas House of Representatives and as a Congressman in Washington, representing Texas Congressional District 18. Leland perished in 1989 in an airplane crash in Africa. The current U.S. Representative for District 18 is Sheila Jackson Lee. The federal building on the Southwestern edge of Downtown Houston right next to the Gulf Freeway (I-45) is also named for Leland. --> Mickey Leland Federal Building at 1919 Smith Street Houston, TX 77002 (renovation).

Mickey Leland Academy - Fifth Ward Welcome Mural - 1510 Jensen Dr, Houston, TX 77020

Fifth Ward Neighborhood Civil Club - Seasonal esplanade decor 

Dick Dowling - White marble statute of Civil War figure at Hermann Park and grave in the East End

Long dead, but still controversial: Irishman-Southerner Dick Dowling,

of Civil War battle fame 

The way to other Hermann Park Destinations
Hermann Park sign with Dowling top right
 - Cambridge St. at S. MacGregor Way 

Cambridge St: Dick Dowling Statue with Texas Historical Commission Marker 

DOWLING GRAVE AT ST VINCENT'S CEMETERY 

IN THE EAST END 

Dick Dowling plaque at burial site in historic St. Vincent's cemetery
on Navigation Blvd. 

Dick Dowling is buried at St. Vincent's Cemetery adjoining Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church
on Navigation Boulevard in Houston's East End 

Julia Ideson Public Library Building night-time view

Houston Public Library Julia Ideson Building

500 McKinney, Houston, Texas 77002

James Baker Commemoration at Downtown Houston Park

James Baker III - Statute with American Flag

James A. Baker statute overlooking Sesquicentennial Park
and Buffalo Bayou

Names of donors for James A Barker Monument engraved

George and Barbara Bush Grove in Memorial Park

George Bush Monument on Buffalo Bayou

Statute of George H W Bush and Houston Skyline

James A. Baker, III: Monument in bronze and stone at Downtown park overlooking the Bayou

James A. Baker Statue (head detail) at Baker Commons near Wortham Center

Statesman James A. Baker III in bronze with American Flag

Stone tablets with biographical information on Statesman James A. Baker III 

at Downtown Houston memorial site

The Baker Monument honors three generations of a prominent Houston family and has its own website (click link)

Stone tablet at the James A Baker Monument
with List of Donors

Baker Commons overlooking Buffalo Bayou at the bend in Downtown Houston near Post Office

Statue of James A Baker III overlooking Buffalo Bayou

Two of the Baker Dynasty: James A. Baker III; and James A Baker, Jr