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World War I Monument

War memorial in Houston, Texas, U.S.

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ55637930 ↗
Source-derived summary

The World War I Monument is a war memorial by an unknown creator, installed outside the Heritage Society, adjacent to Houston's Sam Houston Park, in the U.S. state of Texas.

The bronze and granite memorial commemorates local soldiers who died in World War I, and features a bronze plaque depicting an eagle and displaying a list of names, set within a granite block.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “World War I Monument” is war memorial in Houston, Texas, U.S. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through World, Monument and memorial, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current 63-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, World, Monument and memorial is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “war memorial in Houston, Texas, U.S” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q55637930. Authority coordinates are 29.759, -95.371. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “World War I Monument” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.