Galveston Gem

07/30/2026

Coastal Breeze gets an upgrade! New pool deck lights!

07/21/2026

Summerwind is in the top 1% in Galveston!

07/11/2026

🌊 After the 1900 hurricane killed an estimated 8,000 people and nearly wiped Galveston off the map, most people expected the island to be abandoned forever. Instead, Galveston did something that had never been attempted anywhere on earth — they decided to raise the entire city. Not move it. Not rebuild it at the same level. Actually lift it. Building by building, block by block, until the whole island sat higher than the storm that tried to destroy it. 😮🤠
Between 1903 and 1910, Galveston engineers and workers undertook one of the most staggering construction projects in American history. They built a massive concrete seawall along the Gulf shore, then dredged sand from the harbor floor and pumped it as slurry beneath the entire city to raise the grade — but first, every building in the fill zone had to be lifted off the ground on timber cribbing and hydraulic jacks. More than 2,100 buildings were raised, some of them enormous multi-story brick commercial structures. Water mains, gas lines, and sewer pipes were all temporarily disconnected and later reconnected at the new, higher elevation. The grade raise added as much as seventeen feet of elevation to the lowest parts of the island. It remains one of the most ambitious urban engineering projects ever completed in the United States — and most Texans have never heard of it.
🏗️ Did you know Galveston literally raised itself after the 1900 storm? Drop a comment and tell us what surprises you most about this story — and follow Texas Then & Now for more forgotten chapters of Texas history that deserve to be told. 👇

07/09/2026

We are working on the design plan for our new property. It’s the same flow as Summerwind. What do you think?

07/06/2026

We added landscape lights to Coastal Breeze!

06/24/2026

She’s all ready for the 4th of July celebration! Book direct at GalvestonGem.com

06/24/2026

Huli Huli Hut has the BEST happy hour in town. Check out the drink & app prices! And Happy Hour is all-day on Tuesdays.

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