COMMENT OF THE DAY: AMID DEMOLITION, SOME SOJOURN HEIGHTS CHURCH PARTS FIND SALVATION 
“. . . We couldn’t find a taker for the limestone. I’m not a mason, so I’m not sure what turned so many off from it when they came to look at it. I know one flaw is that it was quarried with inconsistent thicknesses throughout, which made it not an ideal candidate for paving stones and challenging in vertical applications. We would rather it have been reused, just couldn’t make it happen. We were, however, able to salvage most of the steel windows that were in good shape from the building to be repurposed. Hopefully that brings you some good cheer. They’re beautiful windows.” [Scott, commenting on Churchyard Excavator Now Breaking Down Walls Between Sojourn Heights’ Current Home on Aurora and Its Soon-To-Be Sanctuary] Photo of windows salvaged from demolished building on Sojourn Heights campus, 608 Aurora St.: Joe Meppelink
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Demolitions
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Demolition is what makes it permanent.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
When we remember we are all mad, the buildings disappear and life stands explained.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
A mid-week wrecking rest – we’ll return as soon as technical difficulties with the city’s permit reporting system are resolved.
Crews are now digging a hole through the middle of the Sojourn Heights church campus off Gostick St., south of Aurora in Sunset Heights. The rendering above looks west across Gostick to show the fenced-off lawn that will eventually grow in place of the demolished building. The new green space is bookended by renovated street-fronting structures and backed by a smaller addition that’s planned on the far west side of the just-over-an-acre church property.
Before the takedown got started yesterday, the complex consisted of 3 buildings that lined Gostick:
Prayer Semi-Circle
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
It is a dark, unspoken truth that the powerful, the “demolition class” – make up the rules as they go along.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The truth is you don’t know what is going to happen tomorrow. Houses are a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
If my calculations are correct, when this bulldozer hits 88 miles per hour, you’re gonna see some serious demolitions.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Some demolitions are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
When the buildings are truly ready, the buildings will disappear.
The sheet metal façade backed by an assortment of shipping-container parts is now gone, and mountains of stuff have been removed from the longtime junk emporium at 317 W. 19th St. in the Heights, perhaps better known as the open-air building with a front but no roof that lent the shopping district its perhaps now diminished air of funk. The photo at top, sent Swamplot’s way by a flabbergasted reader, shows the now-vacant lot with everything removed. Below it, a rare aerial view from a few years ago reveals secret stashes maintained behind the lot’s corrugated streetfront.
But perhaps what you remember of this lot is different: a mysterious supply house behind whose shiny gate backdrops for hundreds of street scenes emerged over the years? Or a backdrop for fashion shoots?
Junked
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Time, which alone makes the reputation of buildings, ends by making their defects demolishable.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
And now the fancy passes by, and nothing will remain.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
This is your moment. Demolish it.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.
