DBP -
Here are a few things that come to mind at the moment (I will add more later, as they come to me).
>The Villa de Matel - a convent chapel of outstanding Romanesque beauty, built in the thirties. Visser-Rowland organ
>St Mary's Seminary Chapel, a Romanesque architectural treat, built (thankfully) just before the Council (very bad and decrepit organ, though).
>The Church of St Vincent de Paul, good fifties modern church with a fine Reger organ
>Co-Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, one year old, very disappointing as a work of monumental architectural art, Martin Pasi organ due this summer
>St Anne's Church, a Spanish colonial architectural treat from the thirties (same architect as the Villa), with a Visser-Rowland organ
>Christ Church Cathedral (Episcopal) - lovely XIX. cent Gothic revival with a marvelous Aeolian Skinner and some outstanding stained glass, some by Tiffany
>Holy Rosary - Norman Gothic from the thirties - fine glass, no real organ
>Palmer Memorial (Episcopal) - Italian renaissance with a fine Fisk organ (this church copied after one in Venice in which the sanctuary is
about eight steps above the nave so that a canal could pass under it) beautiful building, outstanding organ
>The Church of our Lady of Walsingham - architect: the successors to Ralph Adams Cram, XV. cent English Gothic, Redman (rebuilt) organ of about 20 ranks, very fine stained glass, the high altar a replica of that of the Slipper Chapel at the Shrine in England - the Tabernacle, designed just for us, is a representation of the Ark of the Covenant.
>Rice University - some outstanding architecture from early XX. cent. to now, in a style developed for the campus by Ralph Adams Cram - a rich mixture of
Renaissance classicism, Moorish, and Gothic influences. The organ in Alice Pratt-Brown Hall is a large Fisk-Rosales in a room which really does have 'cathedral acoustics'.
>The Museum of Fine Arts - a rich and varied collection from numerous cultures crowned by a very fine European collection which spans the centuries from
mediaeval to modern, with a decent showing of Classical sculpture, bronze, and artifacts. The original building is Greek in the Ionic Order with a 60's wing by Mies van der Rohe, joined by a new, very contemporary neighbouring building.
>The Menil Collection - an eclectic array of modern, surrealist, and early works, together with some very fine mediaeval and classic works, sculptures & artifacts. Architect: Phillip Johnson. A nearby building in the shape of a mediaeval Greek church houses some Byzantine frescos from Cyprus.
>St Basil's Chapel at the Univ of St Thomas - austere, with outstanding acoustics, by Phillip Johnson - disappointing organ by Schoenstein
>If you like theatre, there may be something of interest playing at the famed Alley Theatre, downtown
>Ditto the Houston Symphony at Jones Hall, downtown
>Christ the King Lutheran Church near Rice Univ is an interesting building with a fine and famed Bach organ inspired by Schnitger instruments
>The Church of St John the Divine (Episcopal) on River Oaks Blvd - a fine fifties building reminiscent of F L Wright, with new Letourneau organ
>There are numerous chamber and early music societies, such as Mercury Baroque, etc., which may have offerings, though the season is pretty
much over by June.
>Numerous good restaurants - a favourite: The Black Labrador, an English pub with very fine food and atmosphere
>More later if something worthy comes to mind.
>Looking forward to meeting you. Are you Anglican Use?

I hope to see you at the conference. You are so, so, right. I don't think the majority of Catholics comprehend how really Catholic devoutly orthodox Anglicans are - and how UnThinkable it is for them to 'convert' into a Church which passes off what it does as liturgy of the Roman (or Western) Rite, which betrays hardly more than a purely formal connection with Magisterium. Alas, the Anglican story is all the more lamentable since they threw their claim to Apostolical lineage and authority to the winds with the what-would-be ordinations of women, & cet.

Yes, Steve (greetings!), St Thomas', with its rather bland, clumsy, adaptation of a Romanesque architectural vocabulary, would be of interest to visit. It has a relatively new three manual Shoenstein. And, if one is there when the pipe band is practicing, that is always a treat. When did Palmer aquire enough bells for change ringing? This must be Very Recent. (One might add that our bells at Walsingham are real [visitors frequently observe that 'everything here is real!'].) And, yes, St Paul's Methodist (Schantz organ) is interesting as architecture. It is Houston's grandest, finest, Gothic pile and is quite a sight on its green acre across from the Museum.

If you like organs, you can come and play our new one at St. Theresa, Aeolian-Skinner/Qumby, 53 rks.
ghmus7@hotmail.com

It sounds like Houston is a place I would enjoy visiting.