![[Flag of Houston, Texas]](../images/u/us-tx-hu-l.gif)
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image(s) from American City Flags,
Raven
9-10 (2002-2003), courtesy of the North American Vexillological Association,
which retains copyright.
Proportions: 1:2 (official); 17:30 (usage)
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Text and image(s) from American City Flags, Raven 9-10 (2002-2003), courtesy of the North American Vexillological Association, which retains copyright. Image(s) from American City Flags by permission of David B. Martucci.
Houston’s flag has a field of medium blue with a large
white five-pointed star taking up about the center third of the flag. On
a field of 17 by 30 units, the two upper points of the star are equidistant
from the flag’s edges at 6 units each, and the distance between the
two points from each other is therefore 18 units. In the center of the
star is the circular city seal with a diameter of 6 units. The seal has a
golden yellow, braided edge. Within it is a smaller, concentric golden
yellow beaded circle. Between these two circles is a blue field on which
CITY OF HOUSTON is inscribed, curved over the top half in golden
yellow letters running clockwise. Curved below, and centered with a
small cluster of three golden yellow leaves at either side, is TEXAS, in
golden yellow letters running counter-clockwise. In the seal’s center,
on a white field, is a golden yellow locomotive of 1840s vintage, smoke
rising from its funnel-shaped smoke stack, and steam escaping from its
whistle as it heads toward the hoist. Centered above it is a golden
yellow five-pointed star, and below, an old-fashioned field plow, headed
toward the fly. The shadings on the golden yellow elements are in red.
John M. Purcell, American City Flags,
Raven
9-10, 2002-2003
On 24 May 1915, the city council authorized
Mayor Ben Campbell to appoint a six-person committee to select a flag
from submitted suggestions. Besides the mayor, who served ex officio,
the others on the committee were Major F. Charles Hume, Judge E. P.
Hamblen, and Mesdames Charles Stewart, M. Looscan, and Gentry
Waldo.
Flag adopted: 13 September 1915 (official).
John M. Purcell, American City Flags,
Raven
9-10, 2002-2003
W. A. Wheeldon. (No honorific is supplied, so one assumes
that it is “Mr.” Wheeldon; ladies of the day were always referred
to by an honorific.)
John M. Purcell, American City Flags,
Raven
9-10,
2002-2003
![[Flag of Houston, Texas]](../images/u/us-tx-huo-l.gif)
image(s) by permission of David B. Martucci
image(s) from American City Flags,
Raven
9-10 (2002-2003), courtesy of the North American Vexillological Association,
which retains copyright.
At some point in the 1990s, several
artistic alterations were made in the
seal, apparently unofficially, and the
blue of the field was lightened
slightly. When the flag was first
adopted, the seal was depicted according to the specifications of the
ordinance of adoption with a navy blue ring around it. The seal’s outer
ring was white, and the lettering, with a small star on either side of
TEXAS instead of the leaves that were on the original seal, was black. The inner edge of the white ring had a smaller, narrow red circle within
it around the field of the seal in white. The locomotive, star, and plow
were also black. The flag’s field was navy blue.
John M. Purcell, American City Flags,
Raven
9-10,
2002-2003
![[City seal]](../images/u/us-tx-hu).gif)
image located by Paul Bassinson, 31 December 2019
Source:
http://www.jerdonlp.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/City-of-Houston-Seal.gif
Paul Bassinson, 31 December 2019
![[Houston Methodist Center]](../images/u/us-tx-hu-hmc.jpg)
image located by Dave Fowler, 17 May 2023
TMC is a vast complex of many hospitals, universities and clinics in Houston.
There is a logo flag that appears to have a dark blue background, however
branding seems to show only black and gray base colors. It could possibly be
Gray 11.
Presentation on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Medical_Center
Branding
information:
https://www.amusedigital.com/work/tmc-corporate
Dave Fowler, 17 May 2023
![[Houston Methodist Hospital]](../images/u/us-tx-hu-hmc-l.gif)
image located by Dave Fowler, 17 May 2023
![[Houston Methodist Hospital]](../images/u/us-tx-hu-hmh.jpg)
image located by Dave Fowler, 17 May 2023
The flag is a logo on white, presented on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston_Methodist_Hospital
Branding:
https://www.houstonmethodist.org/-/media/files/marketing/brand/documents/houstonmethodist_brandguide.ashx
Dave Fowler, 17 May 2023
![[Houston Methodist Hospital]](../images/u/us-tx-hu-hmh-l.gif)
image located by Dave Fowler, 17 May 2023
![[City seal]](../images/u/us-tx_ph.gif)
image by Tomislav Todorovic, 12 October 2022
based on photo located
by Dave Fowler, 6 October 2022
The Port of Houston, styled as "Port Houston" has a logo flag on white.
Dave Fowler, 6 October 2022
