įrom 1980 to 2017, about 100 houses and other properties in the Heights have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Houston Heights Association opened in 1973. Census to the 1990 Census, the population of the Houston Heights declined by more than 1,000 people per square mile. Other teens from the area were targeted simply because the two teens knew many of them which made it easier to entice them to Corll's various residences during the period. For most of the period of his crime spree, Corll lived in or close to Houston Heights as his two teenage accomplices resided there. On December 13, 1970, Dean Corll began luring and killing children from the Houston Heights which became known as the Houston Mass Murders. In 1973 the Houston Heights Association (HHA) was established to reverse this trend. In the 1970s the Houston Heights was considered to be a low income area of the city. In that period several units of housing were subdivided into apartments and maintenance declined. Marilyn Bardsley of Crime Library stated that the Houston Heights became 'decrepit' and 'tired' after World War II. Some of her research stemmed from a document and photograph collection organized by Jimmie May Hicks, the head librarian at the Heights Public Library from 1931 to 1964. Agatha wrote the book History of the Houston Heights, published in 1956. Īfter World War II industrial interests moved into the Houston Heights. By 1919 the city government experienced difficulty collecting sufficient tax revenue to fund the school system and so the small community agreed to be annexed to the city of Houston. Census of 1900 the area had 800 residents and had its own school system, hospital and emergency services. It had its own municipality, established on Jand William G. Another appealing factor to potential residents was that the area is 23 feet higher in elevation than Houston, which was experiencing yellow fever outbreaks along with other waterborne illnesses due to excessive flooding and high levels of mosquitos. As one of Texas's early planned communities, Houston Heights was founded as a streetcar suburb of Houston and attracted residents who did not wish to live in the dense city but had a way to commute back and forth for work. The company purchased 1,756 acres (7.11 km 2) of land and established infrastructure, including streets, alleys, parks, schools, and utilities, worth $500,000. In 1886, Oscar Martin Carter, a former bank president from Nebraska arrived in Houston and by 1891 he and a group of investors had established the Omaha and South Texas Land Company, managed by Carter and a subsidiary of the American Loan and Trust Company.

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