American Statesmanship Park

1400 Elder St, Houston, TX 77007, United States

American Statesmanship Park

About the Company

rating: 4.3

Small, freeway-side park holding outsize busts of U.S. presidents & Texas statesmen.

Categories

  • Park
  • Tourist attraction

Contact Information

Phone: +1 713-344-6568

Website: https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMNHPK_Mount_Rush_Hour_Houston_TX

Address: 1400 Elder St, Houston, TX 77007, United States

Working hours
  • Monday: Open 24 hours
  • Tuesday: Open 24 hours
  • Wednesday: Open 24 hours
  • Thursday: Open 24 hours
  • Friday: Open 24 hours
  • Saturday: Open 24 hours
  • Sunday: Open 24 hours

Photos

Reviews

Review №1

Rating: 5

Date: 2 weeks ago

Review №2

Rating: 5

Pretty cool little park. Interesting why they have these bust.statues...hidden to. Just by chance I noticed it from the highway.

Date: a month ago

Review №3

Rating: 1

Not a park, this place a joke, cannot even take pictures, tall houses behind. No playground or restrooms... lol.. county had sold all land around the park to investors

Date: a month ago

Review №4

Rating: 3

This is hardly a park. Just drive by and see the presidents heads is really all you can do here. No parking. No playground or restrooms, or picnic area.

Date: 2 months ago

Review №5

Rating: 5

Date: 3 months ago

Review №6

Rating: 5

Stop by, just for the picture.

Date: 3 months ago

Review №7

Rating: 5

Stuck in stop-and-go traffic on the interstate, I was able to enjoy this park at 5 to 10 miles an hour. A surprising little bright spot in an otherwise frustrating afternoon and affectionately nicknamed Mount Rush Hour (like Mount Rushmore but with traffic). The park has 18 foot tall busts of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Stephen F. Austin, and Sam Houston. (Yes, for you non-Texans, the cities of Austin and Houston are named after those last two.) The park is operated by Harris County and these artworks by sculptor David Adickes were added in 2012. He titles them, A Tribute to American Statesmanship. Enjoy if youre going slow. Or if you want a better look, the park is open to the public but not directly accessible from the interstate.

Date: 4 months ago

Review №8

Rating: 5

Date: 8 months ago

Review №9

Rating: 5

So cool love this!! Finally stopped by for the geocache here.

Date: 9 months ago

Review №10

Rating: 5

Date: 9 months ago

Review №11

Rating: 5

Beautiful sculptures indeed. But the park sits in an approximate of 5000 sqft ft lot, next to a condensed residential neighborhood. I wish the sculpture would sit in a better location instead

Date: 10 months ago

Review №12

Rating: 4

Very beautiful

Date: a year ago

Review №13

Rating: 4

They lack maintenance, they are deteriorating

Date: a year ago

Review №14

Rating: 2

Date: a year ago

Review №15

Rating: 5

Date: a year ago

Review №16

Rating: 3

Date: a year ago

Review №17

Rating: 3

Good place to take a picture but this area is part of residential area. Small area.

Date: a year ago

Review №18

Rating: 4

Date: a year ago

Review №19

Rating: 4

Date: a year ago

Review №20

Rating: 5

Date: a year ago

Review №21

Rating: 5

Date: a year ago

Review №22

Rating: 3

The small memorial is cool but the place they put them is nothing cool

Date: a year ago

Review №23

Rating: 4

Its in the middle of nowhere but still good to take a picture there

Date: a year ago

Review №24

Rating: 4

Magnificent place to have the experience of seeing these statues, they should improve the area as it is somewhat touristy

Date: a year ago

Review №25

Rating: 4

You never realize how big these guys are until youre standing in front of them

Date: a year ago

Review №26

Rating: 5

Date: a year ago

Review №27

Rating: 4

Date: a year ago

Review №28

Rating: 5

RICHKID678

Date: a year ago

Review №29

Rating: 5

Can I buy a large presidential head? It would be a great addition to a large property.

Date: a year ago

Review №30

Rating: 5

Love it!!

Date: a year ago

Review №31

Rating: 2

Is not what I expected when they said park I feel like they just dropped this blob in some street corner, theres even an apartment building as a background which is very random. Super dissapointed.

Date: a year ago

Review №32

Rating: 2

Place is not appropriate place. I recommend that you remove them and place them in a more attractive place.

Date: a year ago

Review №33

Rating: 5

Date: a year ago

Review №34

Rating: 5

Date: a year ago

Review №35

Rating: 5

Date: 2 years ago

Review №36

Rating: 5

Be careful how you park please. Small area. Can get full of cars. Accident prone. Other than that its a wonderful place to visit if you cant get to the big one. Lol

Date: 2 years ago

Review №37

Rating: 3

Boring.. but the gorgeous architecture of the house next to it was very gorgeous! These sculptures were meant to be viewed quickly from the car on the highway. Theres not a great place to view it from the ground its very much so meant for fast viewing.

Date: 2 years ago

Review №38

Rating: 4

Good view, but the location is a bit complicated to get in to take photos.

Date: 2 years ago

Review №39

Rating: 2

Actually I d give it 2.5 if it were an option. You know, about like Laserblast.

Date: 2 years ago

Review №40

Rating: 5

Very cool quick stop

Date: 2 years ago

Review №41

Rating: 5

Date: 2 years ago

Review №42

Rating: 5

Date: 2 years ago

Review №43

Rating: 5

Date: 2 years ago

Review №44

Rating: 1

Was Put there to remind you who were in charge and obviously still in charge all had slaves

Date: 2 years ago

Review №45

Rating: 5

Date: 2 years ago

Review №46

Rating: 5

that lens

Date: 2 years ago

Review №47

Rating: 5

Date: 2 years ago

Review №48

Rating: 4

Date: 2 years ago

Review №49

Rating: 4

Another great sculpture works from Houstonian, David Adickes.

Date: 2 years ago

Review №50

Rating: 4

Place worth visiting as Houston landmark.

Date: 2 years ago

Review №51

Rating: 4

Date: 3 years ago

Review №52

Rating: 5

Date: 3 years ago

Review №53

Rating: 5

You can still see the steps and the foundation of the church that was previously there before the American Statesmanship Park was erected. My father and his cousin built that church and my father is still living. PRAISE GOD

Date: 3 years ago

Review №54

Rating: 4

I like it, but I would like to see more things like a museum.

Date: 3 years ago

Review №55

Rating: 5

Date: 3 years ago

Review №56

Rating: 1

Date: 3 years ago

Review №57

Rating: 3

Date: 3 years ago

Review №58

Rating: 5

As part of an art district tour stopped her to see the statues you see from the Freeway

Date: 3 years ago

Review №59

Rating: 5

Date: 3 years ago

Review №60

Rating: 5

Date: 3 years ago

Review №61

Rating: 5

This was different in Houston built in the hood off of the freeway.

Date: 3 years ago

Review №62

Rating: 3

The hilarious backstory to the statuary is more diverting than the minimalist park.

Date: 3 years ago

Review №63

Rating: 5

Small property, not much to see unless you want an up close view of the statues. The amount of detail and seeing how well theyre done does make it worth the look.

Date: 3 years ago

Review №64

Rating: 5

Nice place

Date: 3 years ago

Review №65

Rating: 5

Date: 3 years ago

Review №66

Rating: 4

A wee 4

Date: 3 years ago

Review №67

Rating: 5

Nice monument

Date: 4 years ago

Review №68

Rating: 5

Date: 4 years ago

Review №69

Rating: 5

Date: 4 years ago

Review №70

Rating: 5

Date: 4 years ago

Review №71

Rating: 5

It is an awesome place to bring your children.

Date: 4 years ago

Review №72

Rating: 3

Finally found the president s heads from the Goodnight Houston Book. Would help to have the names of the heads, turns out, they aren t just presidents... unless this is the wrong place mentioned in the book!

Date: 4 years ago

Review №73

Rating: 5

Date: 4 years ago

Review №74

Rating: 5

Date: 4 years ago

Review №75

Rating: 4

Cool

Date: 4 years ago

Review №76

Rating: 4

Date: 4 years ago

Review №77

Rating: 5

A wonderful little park with oversized busts of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Sam Houston and Stephen F. Austin. Great place for a quick visit and some selfies. You can also take great photos of the downtown skyline. Please like this review and follow me on Google for the next round of HONEST and UNBIASED reviews.

Date: 4 years ago

Review №78

Rating: 5

Date: 4 years ago

Review №79

Rating: 3

Date: 4 years ago

Review №80

Rating: 5

Date: 4 years ago

Review №81

Rating: 5

Date: 4 years ago

Review №82

Rating: 1

Date: 4 years ago

Review №83

Rating: 5

Date: 4 years ago

Review №84

Rating: 5

This place is a trip. Totally unexpected

Date: 4 years ago

Review №85

Rating: 4

Date: 4 years ago

Review №86

Rating: 5

Take pics here & have a good time.

Date: 4 years ago

Review №87

Rating: 5

Very impressive sculptures of the presidents, very nice place

Date: 5 years ago

Review №88

Rating: 4

Date: 5 years ago

Review №89

Rating: 5

Looks amazing. Great photo opportunities

Date: 5 years ago

Review №90

Rating: 4

Date: 5 years ago

Review №91

Rating: 5

Very nice

Date: 5 years ago

Review №92

Rating: 5

Date: 5 years ago

Review №93

Rating: 4

Always entertaining for its unique location. Backing right up to a residence, its nearly impossible to get a good photo of the statue by itself (thus my only 4-stars).

Date: 5 years ago

Review №94

Rating: 5

Date: 5 years ago

Review №95

Rating: 5

Date: 5 years ago

Review №96

Rating: 4

Date: 5 years ago

Review №97

Rating: 3

We lived here for a year. Great regeneration going on the only issue we had were our neighbors were idiots. So we moved. Would have loved to have stayed

Date: 5 years ago

Review №98

Rating: 4

Date: 5 years ago

Review №99

Rating: 5

Date: 5 years ago

Review №100

Rating: 4

Statues are awesome pretty detailed...no sitting area tho ;(

Date: 5 years ago

Review №101

Rating: 3

Date: 5 years ago

Review №102

Rating: 5

Awesome

Date: 5 years ago

Review №103

Rating: 5

Didnt see anything except the monuments as I drove past. An incredible rendering of those guys. The sculpture in and of itself is enough to go see. Ha!!

Date: 5 years ago

Review №104

Rating: 4

Date: 5 years ago

Review №105

Rating: 2

To small, i didn t felt confortable on this place

Date: 5 years ago

Review №106

Rating: 4

Needed to park at street...

Date: 5 years ago

Review №107

Rating: 5

Date: 5 years ago

Review №108

Rating: 3

Date: 5 years ago

Review №109

Rating: 3

It is okay just the veiw of houses behind monument is irritating lol... I believe they should place them in some park with nothing behind..

Date: 5 years ago

Review №110

Rating: 3

Date: 5 years ago

Review №111

Rating: 5

Date: 5 years ago

Review №112

Rating: 4

Until finally I was able to go

Date: 5 years ago

Review №113

Rating: 5

I love Houston.....

Date: 6 years ago

Review №114

Rating: 4

Date: 6 years ago

Review №115

Rating: 5

Beautifull Statues

Date: 6 years ago

Review №116

Rating: 5

Pretty neat Houston landmark

Date: 6 years ago

Review №117

Rating: 5

Awesome

Date: 6 years ago

Review №118

Rating: 5

Date: 6 years ago

Review №119

Rating: 5

Hey. Thats where the heads went!!!

Date: 6 years ago

Review №120

Rating: 4

Great place for some pictures. Not much to do there.

Date: 6 years ago

Review №121

Rating: 3

Date: 6 years ago

Review №122

Rating: 1

Date: 6 years ago

Review №123

Rating: 4

Good spot to visit to take pictures. My daughter at age 6 knew all these Presidents names.

Date: 6 years ago

Review №124

Rating: 5

Its so inviting and comfortable

Date: 6 years ago

Review №125

Rating: 5

Date: 6 years ago

Review №126

Rating: 4

Pretty neat monument in the middle of a slum revitalization

Date: 6 years ago

Review №127

Rating: 5

Date: 6 years ago

Review №128

Rating: 5

Date: 6 years ago

Review №129

Rating: 5

Had fun lounged hung out

Date: 6 years ago

Review №130

Rating: 5

Date: 6 years ago

Review №131

Rating: 5

Date: 6 years ago

Review №132

Rating: 3

Date: 6 years ago

Review №133

Rating: 2

Not really a park with plaground or walking area. not even a place to officially park even. Decent statue though. Once u go u can say youv been there once i guess. Lol

Date: 6 years ago

Review №134

Rating: 4

Date: 6 years ago

Review №135

Rating: 4

Date: 6 years ago

Review №136

Rating: 5

Date: 6 years ago

Review №137

Rating: 3

Date: 7 years ago

Review №138

Rating: 4

I take my dogs walking down there its a grassy area around the 4 heads its never crowded

Date: 7 years ago

Review №139

Rating: 4

Interesting area of the heights. Houston, Tx.p

Date: 7 years ago

Review №140

Rating: 5

Been wanting to visit this place since I moved here to Texas and I finally made it today... Great place for tourism, very accessible and full of history...

Date: 7 years ago

Review №141

Rating: 5

Nice piece of work.

Date: 7 years ago

Review №142

Rating: 5

Just a cool spot

Date: 7 years ago

Review №143

Rating: 5

Date: 7 years ago

Review №144

Rating: 5

Very educational place to learn about our Presidents!!!

Date: 7 years ago

Review №145

Rating: 5

This place is a trip those County guys sure do keep it clean

Date: 7 years ago

Review №146

Rating: 5

Date: 7 years ago

Review №147

Rating: 5

Date: 8 years ago

Review №148

Rating: 5

Date: 8 years ago

Review №149

Rating: 5

Date: 8 years ago

Review №150

Rating: 5

Love the giant President heads. Very unique!

Date: 8 years ago

Review №151

Rating: 5

This is a fun little spot that isnt well known around town. It is a small park, well more of a side of the road mini attraction where the heads of four US presidents are. You can almost see the busts from I45 but you have to just detour to really see it. Great spot to take visitors or even locals who may not know about these.

Date: 8 years ago

Review №152

Rating: 5

Great Place for TOURIST Brought My Family from California & Europa here

Date: 9 years ago