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Today’s Sponsor of the Day is the home at 920 Leavins St. in Baytown. Thanks for supporting Swamplot!

Where o where can you find a classic Midcentury Mod for — gulp! — less than $150K? We’ll repeat that address: 920 Leavins St. (Leavins is a dead-end street off Marian St. in Baytown). This not just any-old Midcentury Mod. It’s the second home in Baytown ever built with central AC.

This 3-bedroom, 2-1/2-bath home was designed for a client by George F. Pierce of Pierce and Pierce Architects — the same firm now known as PGAL — and completed in 1951. Pierce taught architecture at Rice University and with his firm designed several buildings at Rice — as well as the original Houston Museum of Natural Science and the first 2 terminals of Houston’s Intercontinental Airport.

The interior of the brick home includes a den (pictured above) with a vaulted beamed ceiling, cove lighting, and a fireplace on an angled wing wall expressed on the home’s exterior. Paralleling the den and separated from it by sliding doors fitted with ribbed glass is a living and dining area with the original quarry tile flooring. You’ll find vaulted ceilings and some clerestory windows in bedrooms and even bathrooms. The 2,218-sq.-ft. home sits on a 10,000-sq.-ft. lot., along with some mature oak trees.

You’ll want to look through more photos of this home — they’re available on the property website. But there are also a number of intriguing design details about it you just can’t appreciate from the listing. So if this property looks at all interesting to you, contact the listing agent, Robert Searcy of Robert Searcy Properties.

Where intriguing homes get attention: On Swamplot, as a Sponsor of the Day.

Today’s Swamplot sponsor is ASCOT — also known as the Alcohol Servers Counsel of Texas. Thanks for supporting this site!

If you work in a restaurant, or in any kind of food-service or food-prep operation, you’re probably already familiar with state requirements for training in food-handling safety. And if you work in a bar or for an alcohol distributor, you probably already know why it’s so important that everyone who has anything to do with selling, dispensing, or delivering any kind of alcoholic beverage complete state-certified training in alcohol safety.

Since 1988, ASCOT has been licensed by the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission to provide TABC-certified alcohol-server training programs. That makes ASCOT one of the oldest and most established food and beverage certification programs in the country — as well as Texas’s longest-running provider of training in this important field. And ASCOT has been a preferred source for training in food handling in Houston since 2004.

If you’re responsible for making sure new employees are trained promptly and well in these particular areas, you can be sure they’re getting the exact program they need — in the most helpful format possible — by sending them to ASCOT. ASCOT offers its training courses both in a classroom setting and online, in both English and Spanish.

Use the discount code ASCOT on the alcoholservers.com website and the online alcohol-server training course works out to just $9.89 per class. The food-handling class costs just $7.00 — no discount code is needed.

ASCOT’s server-training program is certified by the TABC, and its food-handler program is ANSI Accredited as meeting the ASTM E2659-09 standard. For more details, or to sign up, head over to the ASCOT website — alcoholservers.com — or call 713.922.1223.

Becoming a Swamplot sponsor is a great way to show your support of Swamplot. And it’s easy to do.