Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Today’s report combines the last demolitions permitted last year, on Thursday and Friday. A little more wire steel and wire cleanup in the Heights, plus a smattering of shatterings further out:
The demos return with a sextuple knockdown, including an odd little mod on Mignon and an old 1928ish number hogging too much land in the Museum District.
“If you were located a tad above sea level, between a river, a gulf and a bayou, where it’s hot and humid enough to rot any plant or animal, and were the site of several industrial plants, you’d stink, too.” Where’s Ann Huey talking about? Oh, Beaumont: “. . . home to a lot of homes with history, or no history, or that are history. There’s old money, new money, and no money.” There’s much in this introduction to our East Texas neighbor that should sound awfully familiar to a Houstonian — even if you’ve never had a chance to visit.
Video: Ann Huey
Demo fans, your late Christmas gifts will arrive . . . tomorrow. The long holiday weekend for city employees — and doomed structures — only ended today.
This early Nixon-era single-story at 418 Thamer Circle, which hit the market a few days before Christmas, offers plenty of domestic secrecy: no windows onto its Hunterwood surroundings, a walled-in central courtyard with a pool, a long and curving front driveway, and a three-quarter-acre lot on a cul-de-sac. And you’ll find plenty of era design in this home just north of the fairways of Houston Country Club, too: skylights, crimson laminated countertops, an old-school intercom system, and a showroom’s worth of sliding glass doors. Plus some old wallpaper styles that you didn’t think you’d have to kick around anymore:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
’Twas the night before Christmas, and if you had a teardown house, not a demo permit was stirring, because city offices were closed. Try again today, and we’ll list it tomorrow.
Set with care under a few trees in the nick of time: a few hot items, including a mid-century mod in River Oaks and a colonial revival from 1928 taking up 2 lots in Boulevard Oaks. Plus, a kickoff for Kickerillo:
Pounding the pavement to bring you Houston’s best pavement pounders. And here they are:
Can’t we use wit as a pitchfork and drive these brutes off?
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Another drop from the First Missionary Baptist Church in Sunnyside is jettisoned, along with some other stuff and a few other things, too.
Someday you’re going to find that your way of facing this realistic world just doesn’t work. And when you do, don’t overlook those lovely destructibles. You’ll discover those are the only things that are worthwhile.
I know what you’re thinking: that your days of finding a Bacon ’n Beef Burger and Beef Lo Mein on the same block are over.
A quick 3 and out this try: 2 homes leave the Heights, plus a fond memory of Memorial Valley.
I’m going to give you a little advice. There’s a force in the universe that makes things happen. And all you have to do is get in touch with it, stop thinking, let things happen . . .
