A Houston landmark is facing demolition, and the clock is ticking. The Garden Oaks Theater, a 1947 neighborhood cinema with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nearly five years after preservationists helped save the historic River Oaks Theatre from demolition, a new battle is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The former Garden Oaks theater was converted into a church and is now empty. Photographed in Houston on Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026.

Houstonians residing in the Heights, Garden Oaks, and far beyond were thrown into a tizzy last week by the abrupt news that the Garden Oaks Theater had been purchased by commercial developers in a ...

After purchasing the historic Garden Oaks Theater, the developer Heights Investment Fund has told Arthouse Houston it intends to demolish the 87-year-old building. "We will be urgently looking for a ...

Five years ago, architectural preservationists sounded the alarm about saving the shuttered River Oaks Theatre. Their efforts proved successful as the vintage theater was spared the wrecking ball and ...