• ‘As welcoming as the shadow under a tree’: the new home for the man who built Houston

    The endowment founded by developer Jesse Jones – who did much to shape the modern Texas city – has a bold, innovative new HQ based on that classic southern space – the porch Few figures have shaped the form and fortunes of a city as much as Jesse H Jones moulded Houston’s. From the early 1900s, the lumberyard owner turned real estate developer, turned banker and Democrat politician, built more than 35 skyscrapers across the Texan “bayou city”. Known as “

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