Cultural, Art, Historical and Other Assets
| Notable Educational Institutions | Art | Recreation | Media | Live Music | Social Service Organizations | Advocacy Organizations | Notable Restaurants | Other Notable Businesses | Notable Churches | Historical Markers and Archives |

Notable Educational Institutions

1. Blackshear Elementary School
2. Jack Yates Sr. High School
3. Texas Southern University (TSU)
4. University of Houston (UH)
5. The Lawson Academy
6. Yellowstone Academy
7. Bob Lanier KIPP Academy
8. Generation One
9. Dinky Drum Company
10. Community Music Center of Houston

Art

1. University Museum at TSU
2. Blaffer Gallery at UH
3. Public Art at UH
4. Project Row Houses
5. Community Artists Collective
6. The Ensemble Theatre
7. Gite Gallery
8. Hogan Brown Gallery at Eldorado Building
9. Station Museum
10. Buffalo Soldiers Museum
11. George Floyd Murals throughout Third Ward
12. Murals at Blackshear Elementary School
13. Ceramic Mosaic Art by Reginald Adams Honoring 4 of the Founders of Emancipation Park
14. John Biggers Murals inside the following buildings:University Museum at TSU
    
    1. University Museum at TSU
    2. TSU Main Administration Bldg.
    3. TSU Jesse H. Jones School of Business
    4. Blue Triangle Multicultural Center
15. Cleveland Turner “The Flower Man" Memorial
16. Sculpture by Anthony Mills “Zin”, Co-founder, All Real Radio
17. Shrine of the Black Madonna Cultural Center

Recreation

1. Emancipation Park
2. MacGregor Park
3. Peggy Park
4. Park at Palm Center
5. OUR Park
6. Riverside Park
7. Lynn Eusan Park (on UH campus)
8. Third Ward Chess Park
9. Columbia Tap hike and bike trail
10. Zina Garrison Tennis Academy
11. Professional Amateur Boxing Association (PABA)
12. Houston Texans YMCA
13. Blue Triangle Multi-Cultural Center
14. Judson Robinson Jr. Community Center

Media

1. KCOH Radio Station
2. All Real Radio Station
3. The Forward Times
4. The Defender
5. The Houston Sun Newspaper

Live Music

1. Eldorado Ballroom & Lounge
2. Grooves
3. 5015 Bar and Lounge
4. Café 4212
5. The Address

Social Service Organizations

1. SHAPE Community Center
2. Civic Heart (formerly Change Happens)
3. Third Ward Community Cloth (TWCC)
4. Emancipation Economic Development Council (EEDC)
5. Houston Area Urban League at Palm Center (HAUL)

Advocacy Organizations

1. Houston Branch of the NAACP
2. The Black United Front (BUF)
3. Super Neighborhood 67 (SN67)
4. CCPPI – Center for Civic and Public Policy Improvement
5. HOUSTON SOUTHEAST - Greater Southeast Management District
6. Tirz # 7 – OST/Almeda Corridors Redevelopment Authority

Notable Restaurants

1. This is It Soul Food
2. Alfreda’s Soul Food
3. Frenchy’s Creole Kitchen
4. Turkey Leg Hut
5. Ray’s Barbecue
6. Reggae Hut
7. Davis Street
8. Rado sandwich shop
9. Doshi House Coffee shop
10. Louisiana Fish
11. Nedzra’s Café
12. Sunshine’s
13. Crumbville pastries
14. Savoy
15. Green Seed vegan restaurant
16. Soul Food Vegan

Other Notable Businesses

1. Unity National Bank
2. Womack Real Estate and Development Company
3. Mayberry Homes
4. Houston Business Development Inc. (HBDI)
5. Mc Queen's Fashion
6. Kay Davis Associates Furniture
7. Kindred Books
8. Gulf Coast Cosmos Comic Book Co.

Notable Churches

1. Trinity United Methodist Church
2. Trinity East United Methodist Church
3. Boynton United Methodist Church
4. Wesley Chapel AME Church
5. Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church
6. Good Hope Baptist Church
7. St. John’s Baptist Church
8. St. Mary of the Purification Catholic Church
9. St. Peter the Apostle Catholic Church
10. Shrine of the Black Madonna

Historical Markers and Archives

1. Mickey Leland Archives at the Mickey Leland Center for Hunger, Poverty and World Peace at Texas Southern University. The Archives include papers and other materials from the late Congressman's public service career from 1970 -1989.