Stone Lantern

Stone Lantern is a monument in Harris County, Texas. Stone Lantern is situated nearby to Japanese Garden, as well as near the grassland Whistletop Prairie.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Japanese Garden and Houston Museum of Natural Science.

Japanese Garden

Garden

Photo: Another Believer, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Houston's Japanese Garden is a 5.5-acre Japanese garden in Hermann Park, in the U.S. state of Texas. The garden was designed by Tokyo landscape designer Ken Nakajima and opened in 1992.

Houston Museum of Natural Science

Museum

Photo: manousek, CC BY 2.0.

The Houston Museum of Natural Science is a natural history museum located on the northern border of Hermann Park in Houston, Texas, United States. The museum was established in 1909 by the Houston Museum and Scientific Society, an organization whose goals were to provide a free institution for the people of Houston focusing on education and science. Houston Museum of Natural Science is situated 1,300 feet northeast of Stone Lantern.

Hermann Park/Rice University station

Railway station

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Hermann Park/Rice U is a light rail station in south-central Houston, Texas, United States. The station serves the Red Line of the METRORail system. It is located on the western side of Hermann Park at the intersection of Fannin Street and Sunset Boulevard. Hermann Park/Rice University station is situated 510 feet northwest of Stone Lantern.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Houston Museum District and Texas Medical Center.

Houston Museum District

Suburb

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The Houston Museum District is an association of 21 museums, cultural centers and community organizations dedicated to promoting art, science, history, and culture, located in Houston, Texas, United States.

Texas Medical Center

Suburb

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The Texas Medical Center is a neighborhood in south-central Houston, Texas, United States. It is immediately south of the Museum District and west of Texas State Highway 288.

Central City

Neighborhood

Central City is a neighborhood in Houston, Texas, United States. In 2009, residents of Central City supported a bill by Garnet Coleman that would limit the ability of Texas Medical Center, Inc. to exercise its eminent domain rights on residential property.

Stone Lantern

Type: Monument
Category: historic site
Location: Harris County, Texas, United States, North America
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Latitude

29.71919° or 29° 43′ 9″ north

Longitude

-95.39231° or 95° 23′ 32″ west

Open location code

76X6PJ95+M3

OpenStreetMap ID

node 4287062610

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=monument

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