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Project Row Houses
Row House Community Development Corporation
Partnerships
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* part of the 22 original shotgun houses built in the 1930’s
 1. 2-Story Building Serves as PRH office and community space  2. Mosaic Table Created by Fletcher Mackey, Jamaal Cyrus & Karen Atkinson
 3. *8 Artist Project Spaces Utilized for Summer Studios and the Rounds (2519-2505 Holman)
 4. *Artist Residence House
Renovated by Rice Building Workshop in 2007
 5. Back Courtyard
a. *Workshop Spaces
b. Small row houses The original concept created by
Carter Ernst 1999, current painting by Shy Morris
c. PRH mosaic Bench Created by Karen Atkinson
d. Concrete Art Created by Graciela Hasper, Argentina 2002  6. *Young Mothers’ Residential Houses
 7. Artist Murals First built in 2006 and last painted in 2007
■ 8. Single family Home Designed and built by
Rice Building Workshop
■ 9. Row House CDC Duplexes
a. Designed by Rice Building Workshop 2004
b. The Hannah Project Built in 2008
 10. Steps Created by Carter Ernst and youth in
PRH’s Arts/Education Program
■ 11. Rice Building Workshop
■ 12. Delia’s Lounge/RHCDC Office
■ 13. Murals Created by South African Artist Esther Mahlangu, 2005
 14. Dupree Sculpture Park Named after Ann Dupree
a. Photo in the park Original concept Karen Olivier
b. Mural Designed and painted by Beth Secor and art students from Houston Community College - Central
■ 15. Carl Hampton Memorial Park
■ 16. PABA: Progressive Amateur Boxing Association
■ 17. Kenya Shabazz’s Pyramid Shop
 18. Historic Eldorado Ballroom Designed in 1939 by
Lenard Gabert and founded by Ann Dupree
■ 19. Emancipation Park
■ 20.Bert L. Long Jr., Field of Vision
Moved to 3rd Ward from 5th Ward in 2006
 21. Solar House: Artist Residence House
Designed and built by Rice Building Workshop
 22.Extra Small House Artists Residence House
Designed and built by Rice Building Workshop
 23.Bastrop Houses 1920’s Shotgun Houses moved from
Fourth Ward
■ 24.Flower Man’s House
■ 25.True Vine Baptist Church
■ 26.Trinity United Methodist Church and
Jean Lacy’s Stained Glass Windows
Site for PRH’s Arts/Education Program
■ 27-28. Single Family Houses Under renovation
■ 29.Ryan Middle School
Project Row Houses/Row House CDC
Project Row Houses
is funded in large part by the following:
CHEVRON
Houston Endowment, Inc.
The Brown Foundation, Inc.
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
Leveraging Investments In Creativity (LINC)
The Ford Foundation
The National Endowment for the Arts
The Houston Arts Alliance
The William J. Hill Land & Cattle Company
Adelaide de Menil
Bruner Foundation, Inc.
The Susan Bay and Leonard Nimoy Foundation
Texas Commission on the Arts
Continental Airlines
St. Luke’s Episcopal Health Charities
The Powell Foundation
Louisa Stude Sarofim
Shell
Joan Wich
Betty Pecore
Anonymous
Row House Community Development Corporation
(Row House CDC),
formed in August 2003 as a sister organization
to Project Row Houses, was based in
Houston’s historic Third Ward.
The Row House CDC development plan envisions
mixed-income housing, green space, public
facilities, artists’ living/studio spaces and
historic preservation.
The Row House Community Development Corporation
is funded by:
Houston Endowment Inc.
The Meadows Foundation
The Sisters of Charity of Incarnate Word
Bridgeway Charitable Foundation
Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC)
Brooks Family
Bruner Foundation
John Walsh
The Brown Foundation, Inc.
CDS Market Research
Stewart Title Company
Baker Botts LLP
Row House District Collaborative
Landtech Consultants
Rebuilding Together-Houston
Mission Statement:
Walking Map
Project Row Houses (PRH) is a neighborhoodbased nonprofit art and cultural organization in
Houston’s Northern Third Ward, one of the city’s
oldest African-American communities. PRH began in 1993 as a result of discussions among African-American artists who wanted to establish
a positive, creative presence in their own community. Artist and community activist Rick Lowe
spearheaded the pursuit of this vision when he
discovered the abandoned 1 1/2
block site of
Photo/Chuy Benitez
twenty-two shotgun-style houses in Houston’s
Third Ward. The shotgun houses became the
perfect opportunity to pursue the creation of
a new form of art. They had two key elements:
1) a beautiful form recognized by the renowned
Houston artist Dr. John Biggers to be filled with
architectural, spiritual, and social significance,
and 2) a need for social action among the community to bring the project to life.
PRH is founded on the principle that art-and the
community it creates-can be the foundation for
revitalizing depressed inner-city neighborhoods.
This principle was is in part based on the philosophy of German artist Joseph Beuys (1921 - 1986)
“To develop housing for low-to-moderate
income residents, public spaces, and facilities
to preserve and protect the historic character
of the Third Ward.”
Our goal is to relocate families from substandard
housing into new or renovated affordable rental
units, while buying land for the construction and sale
of affordable, owner-occupied homes over time.
Project Row Houses
who coined the phrase “social sculpture,” which
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transformed the idea of sculpture as an art form
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into a social activity. Thus, the mission of Project
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Row House CDC
3409 Dowling • Houston, TX 77004-4233
phone 713.521.2600 • fax 713.521.1298
www.rowhousecdc.org
Row Houses is to transform community through
the celebration of art, African American history
and culture.