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Portable Buildings are common in
Houston,
Texas! We
deliver
Derksen buildings to
Houston
almost everyday.
If you live in the Houston
area or Houston,
Texas you probably have seen some of our portable buildings.
Maybe a small shed,
cabin,
garage,
playhouse,
horse barn or utility building.
Derksen Buildings makes them all.
Right here in Texas!
Portable building sales in
Houston, Texas! Derksen portable buildings can be
delivered to your Houston
location! We have many happy customers in the gulf coast and
the Houston, Texas area.
Free delivery within 50 miles of
Houston,
Texas!
Houston is the fourth
most populous city in the United States of America, and the
most populous city in the state of Texas. According to the
2010 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 2.1 million
people within a land area of 599.6 square miles.
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the gulf coast area, please check our
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requirements before calling to order. Any
Texas City will be in our area,
however; it is best to call for
color options and custom
build outs. Contact us or come to the Uvalde,
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today.
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Alive with energy and
rich in diversity, Houston is a dynamic mix of imagination,
talent and first-class attractions that makes it a
world-class city. Home to a vibrant economy, beautiful
surroundings and a population full of optimism and spirit,
it's no wonder that Houston is a popular international
destination.
In this section we
provide you with options that will give you a good idea of
what Houston is all about. You can also view our Calendar of
Events to see more than 400 events in the Houston area
throughout the next 12 months.
And be sure to visit
the Exploring Houston page for quick links to many more
featured places to go and things to do which celebrate the
uniqueness of our City.
You can enjoy
Houston's outstanding performing and visual arts venues. Try
one of the countless restaurants available, offering cuisine
in everything from Tex Mex and South American to Middle
Eastern and Vietnamese. For sports fans we have local teams
representing all major sports. Do some shopping; Houston
offers something to fit every budget - from the exclusive
shops in Houston's Uptown area to the outlet malls just
outside the City.
And that's just the
beginning.
Houston, Texas City Seal
Houston, Texas
History
Houston was an entrepreneurial place
from the moment of its founding. In 1832 two brothers from
New York State-John K. Allen, a shopkeeper and dreamer, and
his brother Augustus, a bookkeeper and a pragmatist-joined
hundreds of Americans who gobbled up cheap scrip offered by
Galveston Land Company and authorized by Mexico. It conveyed
the right to settle the wide-open Mexican state of
Coahuila-Texas. The Allens headed for Nacogdoches, a town of
intrigue on the border between Mexican Texas and American
Louisiana, where talk of revolution against Mexico
fermented. They befriended Sam Houston, a giant of a man who
had served as Tennessee governor and a U.S. congressman
before he countrified and rode to Texas to stir up trouble
on behalf of President Andrew Jackson. That unrest would
explode into rebellion and the nitrous slaughter of William
Travis, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett and about 140 other men at
the Alamo in San Antonio in late February and early March
1836. A month later on the San Jacinto River in East Texas,
Houston wreaked revenge, leading Texas forces to kill more
than six hundred Mexican troops and capturing their
commander, General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna.
With victory came independence for the rough-hewn Republic
of Texas. The Allen brothers, who had been busy scouting for
land on which to build a speculative city, purchased 6,642
acres along the west bank of Buffalo Bayou, a muddy,
meandering stream that lolled southward to the bustling port
of Galveston.
Every nation needs a capital, the Allens realized. Why not
this barren place they had grandly named in honor of their
friend? They even built a two story, wooden capitol building
to house a government. Sure enough, in April 1837 the new
Texas Congress moved from Columbia to this muddy frontier
town. The coastal prairie was soon dotted with log cabins,
taverns, and shacks passing for shops-but mostly lean-tos
and crude tents-so anxious were people to get a foothold in
this wild and wooly place. A theater went up in a matter of
weeks, but it was three years before Houston saw its first
church.
The flat land was easy to subdivide, and the Allens made a
killing selling lots. But Houston soon lost its standing as
state capital. In 1839 Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar, who
succeeded Sam Houston as Texas president, moved the capital
to yet another town, Waterloo in the Texas Hill Country. It
was soon renamed Austin in
honor of the "father of our country."
To everyone's surprise, Houston flourished anyway. Freight
wagons and railroad from the fertile Brazos River country
converged on the little town, carrying cotton and hides
bound for Galveston.
Before long, the chamber of commerce began advertising
Houston as the place "where 17 railroads meet the sea."
Never mind that the Gulf of Mexico was 50 miles away. The
first automobile, proudly purchased by the Houston Left Hand
Fishing Club, sputtered into town in 1901. Air passenger
service would arrive with a Braniff Airlines flight in 1935.
Houston did indeed become the Texas capital-of commerce. So
fast would it grow, in such scintillating fashion and with
such a profusion of ideas, dreams, wealth and schemes, that
one astonished observer dubbed it "Babylon on the Bayou."
From the moment a steamboat first made its way up Buffalo
Bayou to Houston in 1844, city burghers magnanimously dubbed
their humble docks the "Port of Houston." The community's
business leaders beseeched the U.S. Congress to pay for
widening and deepening the bayou so it could truly become a
deep-water channel. In 1910 they won the day, after
promising to foot half the bill. Four years later, just in
time to profit from the war in Europe, the 36-foot-deep
Houston Ship Channel was completed, leading into a huge
turning basin in the old town of Harrisburg, by then a part
of fast-growing Houston on the east.
The Port of Houston quickly prospered, in part through the
misfortune of rival Galveston, which had been devastated by
the killer hurricane of 1900. At the time, Galveston boasted
the nation's second largest per capita number of
millionaires, virtually all of whom made their fortunes in
shipping. Galveston dallied in rebuilding its port and when
it did, it found that it had lost much of its business to
the upstart port upstream. Houston dangled cheaper prices,
abundant fresh water, and before long, docks and refineries
protected from the direct brunt of gulf storms. By 1930
Houston's port facilities at the end of what folks in town
called "our little ditch" had already become the nation's
eighth largest.
Prosperity for the Port of Houston and the rawboned town as
a whole was assured after 1901. In that year, the monumental
Spindletop gusher blew at Gladys City near
Beaumont. Soon wooden
derricks filled the prairies of East Texas, fortunes were
made and lost and oil refineries sprang up along the Houston
Ship Channel feeding the nation's insatiable appetite for
gasoline and oil. Giant oil companies set up shop in
Houston, sophisticated chemical operations evolved and the
World's Energy Capital was born.
Houston's shipbuilding, oil production, and steel
manufacturing were critical contributors on the home front
during World War II. These were the days of idiosyncratic
giants such as "Mr. Houston" Jesse Jones, a
lumberman-turned-banker who financed a skyscraper a year in
downtown Houston and hosted a weekly high-stakes poker game
in suite 8F at the Lamar Hotel. More than once, Jones would
start the game by announcing, "Boys the United Way drive (or
another worthy undertaking) is running a little behind. All
the money we bet here tonight goes to the united way, and it
costs $5,000 to get in." Each player would write a check for
$5,000 before the first deal.
Houston nurtured other legendary figures as well. There was
Will Clayton, who had been president of the world's largest
cotton company. Soon after he took office as the nation's
first undersecretary of state for economic affairs in 1946,
he wrote a long memorandum proposing massive aid for
war-ravaged Europe; the memo inspired much of the language
of a June 6, 1947 speech by his boss, Secretary of State
George C. Marshall, that heralded the sweeping Marshall Plan
to rescue Europe.
Roy Hofheinz was a page in one of Jesse Jones's hotels. As a
cantankerous mayor in the 1950s the former Harris County
judge fought constantly with the city council and was nearly
impeached. But his administration refurnished downtown and
in 1965, as head of the Houston Sports Commission, he
brought the city the "eighth Wonder of the Modern World,"
the 76,000-seat Astrodome, the first gigantic, domed
baseball and football stadium.
Sophistication, incredible generosity and civic selflessness
permeated the coarse commercialism of the emerging
megalopolis on the East Texas plain. A prime example is the
altruism of M.D. Anderson, an assiduous partner with Will
Clayton in Houston's biggest cotton brokerage. When
Anderson, a bachelor who lived alone in a downtown hotel,
died in 1939, he left most of his substantial fortune to a
foundation to be dedicated in part to hospitals "for the
care of the sick, the young, the aged, the incompetent and
the helpless among the people." Three years later his
executors approved the expenditure of funds to locate the
University of Texas' new cancer treatment center, named for
Anderson in Houston. Soon Baylor University would move its
medical school from Dallas to
the budding medical center complex. Combined with the
existing Memorial Hermann Hospital on the city's new outer
belt road, and the Texas Dental College, the M.D. Anderson
hospital and Baylor College of Medicine formed the core of
the revolutionary Texas Medical Center, now more than 40
independent institutions in 100 buildings on 670 acres in
the world's largest medical center complex.
Excerpts from the book Houston, Deep in the Heart
by Carol M. Highsmith and Ted Landphair
Houston, Texas
An Abbreviated Timeline
1836
Brothers Augustus Chapman Allen
and John Kirby Allen found Houston
1845
Texas becomes the 28th state in
the Union
1870
Congress designates Houston a port
1899
Houston's first park opens. The
site, now Sam Houston Park, contains several of
Houston's earliest buildings
1948
Voters first reject proposed
zoning ordinance. It's rejected again in 1962 and 1993.
1932
First Houston Livestock Show and
Rodeo held
1943
Texas Medical Center founded
1947
Alley Theatre established
1969
"Houston" is first word spoken
from the lunar surface
1971
Shell Oil Co. relocates corporate
headquarters to Houston. More than 200 major firms move
headquarters, subsidiaries and divisions here in the
years following.
2000
Census finds Houston MSA has no
racial or ethnic majority
2004
First modern light rail line-7.5
miles-begins operations.
We have every building in stock and ready to
deliver. If you are in
Houston, Texas and are looking for a shed,
storage building,
garage,
barn,
playhouse, utility building or cabin, we have
it! Portable buildings in the Houston area can e delivered
to your home or business.
Just contact
us and we will get your portable building to you asap!
Derksen Portable Buildings in
Houston,
Texas constructs quality storage buildings including:
Barns, Lofted barns, Lofted Barn Cabins, Cottage Sheds,
Utility Sheds, Garages, Cabins, and a variety of custom
combinations of these basic designs. All buildings may be
purchased in treated wood, painted treated wood, or metal,
exteriors. Portable Buildings
Houston,
Texas.
Please check our
delivery requirements
before calling to order. Any
Texas City
will be in our area, however; it is best to call for
color options
and
custom build outs.
Derksen Portable Buildings in
Houston,
Texas
Barns
Cabins
Deluxe Cabins
Lofted Barn Cabins
Portable Garages
Utility Buildings
Side Lofted Barns
Playhouses
Lofted Barns
Cottage Sheds
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Treated
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