Galveston Audio Walking Tour

Highlights

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  Elissa

  Picture a three-masted barque launched in Aberdeen in 1877, now moored right here in Galveston as the museum ship Elissa. Launched in Aberdeen, Scotland on 27 October 1877, Elissa is one of the oldest ships sailing today and was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1990.

• University of Texas Medical Branch

  Since 1891 the University of Texas Medical Branch has grown from one building into the more than 70 that anchor this part of Galveston. Founded in 1891 as the University of Texas Medical Department, UTMB began as one building with 23 students and 13 faculty, and has grown to more than 70 buildings, more than 2,500 students, and more than 1,000 faculty.

• Texas A&M University at Galveston

  Sea Aggies study on Pelican Island at Texas A&M University at Galveston, the ocean-oriented branch campus spread out in front of you. Here students known affectionately as "Sea Aggies" pursue both undergraduate and graduate degrees in programs that are, above all, ocean-focused.

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  Galveston Seawall

  Picture the concrete rising here after the deadly 1900 hurricane, a barrier built to hold back future storms. Construction began in September 1902, and the initial segment was completed on July 29, 1904.

• Ball High School

  Ball High School serves grades 9 through 12 here in Galveston, Texas. This is the school that serves grades 9 through 12 as part of the Galveston Independent School District, and it welcomes students from Galveston and Jamaica Beach as well as the unincorporated communities of Port Bolivar and Crystal Beach on the Bolivar Peninsula.

All 26 stops

• Galveston Railroad Museum (The Strand)

  Notice the former Santa Fe Railroad station at 25th and Strand, now packed with locomotives from the Galveston Railroad Museum's astonishing roster.

• Strand Historic District (Strand Historic District)

  Five blocks of restored Victorian commercial architecture make up the Strand Historic District in downtown Galveston.

• Elissa (Galveston Historic Seaport)

  Picture a three-masted barque launched in Aberdeen in 1877, now moored right here in Galveston as the museum ship Elissa.

• Ocean Star Offshore Drilling Rig & Museum (Strand National Historic Landmark District)

  Look up at a retired jack-up rig now moored in Galveston harbor.

• United States Customs House and Court House (Galveston)

  Completed in 1861, the Old Galveston Customhouse in front of you once held the custom house, the post office, and the federal courts.

• Rosenberg Library (Galveston)

  Rosenberg Library, the oldest continuously operating library in Texas, faces you in light-colored brick and terracotta trim, headquarters of the Galveston County Library System.

• Grand 1894 Opera House (Historic Downtown Cultural Arts District)

  Picture Henry Greenwall raising $100,000 to build this Romanesque Revival house at 2020 Post Office Street.

• Texas Heroes Monument (Galveston)

  Granite and bronze rise at the corner of Broadway and Rosenberg Avenue, where the Texas Heroes Monument towers over the intersection.

• Galveston Seawall (Galveston)

  Picture the concrete rising here after the deadly 1900 hurricane, a barrier built to hold back future storms.

• Galveston Island Historic Pleasure Pier (Galveston Island)

  Reopened in the summer of 2012, the Galveston Island Historic Pleasure Pier stretches 1,130 feet out over the Gulf of Mexico from Galveston, Texas.

• East End Historic District (East End Historic District)

  Greek Revival houses and 19th-century streets fill the East End Historic District, the residential quarter of eastern Galveston you are walking through.

• Bishop's Palace (East End Historic District)

  Gresham's Castle, also known as the Bishop's Palace, packs 19,082 square feet of ornate Victorian‑style house onto the corner of Broadway and 14th Street in…

• Moody Mansion (Galveston)

  Thirty-one rooms fill the Romanesque Willis-Moody Mansion at 2618 Broadway Avenue, better known today as the Moody Mansion.

• Ashton Villa (Galveston)

  Ashton Villa holds the corner of 24th and Broadway in Galveston, Texas, a fully restored three-story home from 1859.

• Michel B. Menard House (Galveston)

  Here at 1605 Thirty-Third Street, also listed as 1604 33rd St, the Menard House known as The Oaks has stood since 1838, the oldest surviving…

• Samuel May Williams House (Galveston)

  Ten piers lift the Samuel May Williams House seven feet off the ground, the second-oldest surviving residence in Galveston, listed on the National Register of…

• Bryan Museum (Galveston)

  The historic Galveston Orphans Home now houses The Bryan Museum.

• Ashbel Smith Building (Galveston)

  Old Red is what locals call the Ashbel Smith Building, red brick and sandstone in front of you.

• Texas A&M University at Galveston (Pelican Island)

  Sea Aggies study on Pelican Island at Texas A&M University at Galveston, the ocean-oriented branch campus spread out in front of you.

• University of Texas Medical Branch (Galveston)

  Since 1891 the University of Texas Medical Branch has grown from one building into the more than 70 that anchor this part of Galveston.

• St. Mary Cathedral Basilica (Galveston)

  St. Mary Cathedral Basilica in Galveston is the mother church of Texas Catholics.

• Congregation B'nai Israel (Galveston)

  Congregation B'nai Israel takes its Hebrew name from the words Sons of Israel.

• Reedy Chapel A.M.E. Church (Galveston)

  Reedy Chapel A.M.E. Church faces you at 2013 Broadway in Galveston, founded in 1848 by enslaved African Americans.

• Grace Episcopal Church (Galveston)

  Stone High Victorian Gothic walls front Grace Episcopal Church at 1115 36th Street, and the story of this block is written into them.

• Ball High School (Galveston)

  Ball High School serves grades 9 through 12 here in Galveston, Texas.

• City Hall (Galveston)

  Galveston City Hall waits at 823 Rosenberg Avenue, the first of three city halls constructed for Galveston.

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