Details for Teas Nursery Company

Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5201010788

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Marker Number 10788
Atlas Number 5201010788
Marker Title Teas Nursery Company
Index Entry Teas Nursery Company
Address 4400 Bellaire Blvd.
City Houston
County Harris
UTM Zone 15
UTM Easting 262966
UTM Northing 3288749
Subject Codes Botany; Business topics, general
Marker Year 1992
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark No
Marker Location Marker reported inaccessible to the public on city property under renovation Mar. 2010.
Private Property No
Marker Condition In Situ
Marker Size 27" x 42"
Marker Text Teas Nursery Company traces its history to 1843, when John C. Teas (1827-1907) began selling apples out of his back yard in Indiana. After moving the business to Missouri in 1868, Teas became a nationally prominent horticulturist. In 1908 his son, horticulturist Edward Teas, Sr. (1870-1951), met developer W. W. Baldwin who was then planning the community of Westmoreland Farms and the town of Bellaire in southwest Harris County. Baldwin hired Teas to execute the planting designs for Bellaire Boulevard and adjacent streets. Teas started work in Bellaire early in 1909. The next year, he moved his family from Missouri to this site and opened Teas Nursery Company. Initially specializing in the sale of fruit trees and flowering shrubs and plants, the business was later expanded to include landscaping services. The company's early projects included the landscaping of Rice Institute (now Rice University) and the River Oaks subdivision. By 1951 Teas Nursery had planted over one million trees in the Houston area. Edward Teas died the same year, leaving ownership of the nursery to his descendants.

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