Please note that advance ticket purchase is required for this walking tour. Scroll down or click here to register.
Our tours begin at 6 p.m. from June to September.
As large as it is, Houston shares a feature with dozens of small towns across Texas: a courthouse square. On Sunday evening, September 11, we'll take a look at the history and architecture of the neighborhood surrounding the Harris County Courthouse — one of Houston's most historic areas.
The 90-minute, docent-guided walking tour will feature interesting and often amusing stories of Harris County government, tales of the elite 19th century neighborhood of Quality Hill and the stories behind some of downtown's oldest buildings. Among the highlights of the tour is the restored 1910 Harris County Courthouse, the c. 1858 Pillot Building and Christ Church Cathedral, which has occupied its site on Texas Avenue since 1839.
This is an exterior architecture tour only. The tour will not go inside any buildings. There are no public restrooms along the tour route.
About the tour
Admission is $10 per person for the general public ($7 for Preservation Houston members and students.) Children 11 years old and under are admitted free.
Advance ticket purchase is required. Reservations are offered on a first-come, first-served basis. We are not able to accommodate walk-ups the day of the tour. There are no refunds for tour reservations.
Registrants will receive parking and check-in information via e-mail.
Face masks are optional for all fully vaccinated individuals, including docents. We ask that tourgoers who are not fully vaccinated remain masked at all times during the tour, including at check in.
In the event of inclement weather that prevents the tour from being offered as planned, we will notify registrants as far in advance as possible about their options to attend a rescheduled tour or transfer their reservations to another Preservation Houston tour.
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Do you have an Architecture Walks pass?
If you have joined Preservation Houston and received a pass for a free Architecture Walk, you may redeem the pass for admission to this tour. E-mail us and we'll be happy to help.
Passes are redeemable subject to ticket availability.
This program is made possible with funding from Humanities Texas and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the federal ARP Act.
Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.