Downtown Houston’s history museum

Houstonians and The Heritage Society Revive a Coronation Ball

King and Queen Duke and C.C. Ensell NoTsuOh 2020, Photo Credit:  Priscilla Dickson

The Heritage Society recreates a Downtown business tradition that occurred in the early 1900s Did you know that Houston once had kings and queens who ruled over a week-long Mardi Gras like festival with a backward theme? On Friday, May 7, 2021, a new NoTsuOh king and queen will be crowned at The Heritage Society’s Coronation Gala, to be held at The Ballroom at Bayou Place, at 500 Texas Avenue. “The NoTsuOh festival is one of the great traditions from early Houston that brought Texans together in Downtown to launch agriculture and trade,” Alison Ayres Bell, executive director of The Heritage Society, said. “From 1899 to 1915, merchants came […]