Fun Houston Blog

We are Fun Houston Tours, a small-group company devoted to revealing the layers of history, culture, and architectural ingenuity that define Galveston. Among the city’s most remarkable residential landmarks, the...

At Fun Houston Tours, we believe that every landmark tells a story about the people who built it, the challenges they faced, and the spirit that continues to shape the...

We are Fun Houston Tours, a small-group company dedicated to revealing the layers of history, culture, and design that define Houston. The McGovern Centennial Gardens, located in the heart of...

We are Fun Houston Tours, a small-group company that reads buildings as records of civic ambition, architectural innovation, and corporate culture. The Chevron Building Auditorium in downtown Houston exemplifies how...

We are Fun Houston Tours, a small-group company that believes learning emerges from curiosity, exploration, and context. The Downtown Aquarium in Houston is more than a collection of tanks and...

At Fun Houston Tours, we design small-group excursions that treat Houston’s buildings as sources of evidence. When we take guests to the Harris County Courthouse, the goal is not only...

Buffalo Bayou is a living document: its channel, banks, bridges, and parkland record settlement choices, industrial growth, flood fights, and a slow civic decision to repair and reconnect the city...

When we bring guests to The Rice Hotel site, our aim is to move past postcard versions and tell the property’s full story: how a Republic-era lot became a civic...

Congress Plaza rewards careful attention: its facades, thresholds, and storefronts record changing economies, municipal functions, and the everyday circulation that kept downtown alive across two centuries. Our aim on site...

When we guide guests through Houston, we often notice how sports architecture can tell stories about commerce, memory, and civic identity. Minute Maid Park is not just a ballpark but...

For many visitors the place was obvious on arrival: raw walls saturated with layers of paint, tags layered over full-scale murals, memorials painted into corners, and a steady turnover of...

Annunciation’s story begins in the decades after the Civil War. The parish traces its formal foundation to the late 1860s, when Bishop Claude M. Dubuis and Father Joseph Querat secured...