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AvantGarden inhabits a history-embedded turn-of-the-century Kraft house. Here, families once celebrated the stages of their lives, loved laughed and finished out their days; the public now calls it Home.
Among the very last remaining midtown/lower Westheimer structures surviving the relentless erasure of historic buildings from Houston's collective memory, the venue has transitioned identities as a private home where Howard Hughes played as a child, later a half way house, and finally, an abandoned crack house, before it was purchased and twice repaired by Mariana Lemesoff, once in 1996 as The Mausoleum, a bar, live music and artistic venue, re-opening in 2000 as Helios, which continued supporting the creative community.
In 2007 it received a complete restoration/adaptation as AvantGarden, which draws patrons both from surrounding Montrose and Museum District neighborhoods and from afar with its plethora of nightly events.
On any given night of the wee ...
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