Houston, Texas - The Flower Man
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- Address:
- 2305 Francis St, Houston, TX
- Directions:
- Corner of Francis and Bastrop Sts.
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Happy-go-lucky Cleveland Turner, the Flower Man, lives in a house covered with colorful junk that others have thrown away. Roadsideamerica.com Report...
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Houston, Texas - Flower Man House Cleveland "Flower Man" Turner is a former drunk who promised God he'd dedicate
his life as a sober man to creating a place of uncommon beauty. Turner's home and yard in the Third Ward are a riot of flowers and scavenged junk, fruit trees and found objects.
The Flower Man survives occasional tussles with the city and the law, who threaten to fine him for infractions such as encroaching on the sidewalk and drainage ditches in front of his house.
This house is in one of the most economically depressed areas in recent memory, but it has created a sort of virus and others are decorating on that same street. The fact that these people obviously are dirt poor, but still have this wacky sense of self-expression and vigor is really beautiful to me. [Shannon Kreiger, 08/01/2001]
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