Central Plant

Central Plant is an university building in Harris County, Texas. Central Plant is situated nearby to Engineering Quad Tent, as well as near the park Treehouse field.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Rice University School of Architecture and Houston Museum of Natural Science.

Rice University School of Architecture

University

Rice School of Architecture, also referred to as Rice Architecture, is the architecture school of Rice University in Houston, Texas. The graduate and undergraduate programs in architecture foreground design, history/theory, technology, and culture as critical academic subjects. Rice University School of Architecture is situated 770 feet south of Central Plant.

Houston Museum of Natural Science

Museum

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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 3,300 feet east of Central Plant.

Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy

University

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The Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy is an American think tank housed on the campus of Rice University in Houston, Texas. Founded in 1993, it functions as a center for public policy research. Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy is situated 1,800 feet southwest of Central Plant.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Houston Museum District and Rice Village.

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.

Rice Village

Neighborhood

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Rice Village is a shopping district in Houston, Texas, United States. Rice Village is a collection of shops, restaurants and pubs, situated about a half-mile west of the center of Rice University's 300-acre campus.

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 Plant

Type: University building
Categories: building and education
Location: Harris County, Texas, United States, North America
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Latitude

29.721° or 29° 43′ 16″ north

Longitude

-95.4001° or 95° 24′ 0″ west

Open location code

76X6PHCX+9X

OpenStreetMap ID

way 45821934

OpenStreetMap feature

building=university

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