Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Soon to be out of sight, but not necessarily out of mind.
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Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
A bungalow here, a bungalow there, but each faces a similar fate.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Just a few houses, soon to be torn apart:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Fading away is boring — why not go out with a bang?
This pair of drive-by shots shows what remained on Tuesday of the Hyde Park building that until recently housed South and Central American craft store Corazon. After receiving a series of short-term lease extensions, the store’s owner Chris Murphy told Swamplot last October that he only had a month left in the space at 2318 Waugh Dr., which had housed the store since 1998 and served as a canvas for Houston’s fifth red dot on its Fairview-St. side. (It opened a year earlier on Montrose Blvd. a few blocks south of 59 in a spot within the former Gramercy Apartments that’s now occupied by the Museum Tower.)
Murphy began renting the blue and gray building that’s now collapsing for $650 a month over the discouragements of his friends, reported the Chronicle’s Ileana Najarro, who warned him of its location in “the middle of nowhere” and of the visibly lopsided posture it’d assumed over its 100-year lifespan. (Joke’s on them: the building, wrote Najarro, went on to survive 8 car crashes during the time Corazon was inside.) Harris County’s appraisal district dates its construction to around 1880. Since then, it’s done stints as a smithy, glass-blowing studio, antique store, general store, and furniture refinishing shop.
Once the dust has settled from the demolition, a set of 3 townhomes are set to rise in its place. Murphy plans to continue dealing products from South and Central American artists online.
- Previously on Swamplot: Corazon Is Leaving the Corner of Waugh and Fairview for Real This Time; Corazon Will Hang Around Montrose for a Few Months More Before Its Building Gets Smashed Up;Â Corazon Now Being Removed from Its Big Red Dot Spot at Waugh and Fairview
Photos: Grey Stephens
Fairview Farewell
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Here’s the story of a lovely duplex that came with quite a lovely pile of bricks:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Out with the old and in with the construction crew:
City offices were closed Monday for the Martin Luther King holiday. So our report has nothing to show for today. We’ll continue highlighting our continuing urban destruction here tomorrow.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Goodbye, Meyergrove Apartments — and other Houston farewells.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Goodbye to the old and the beautiful:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The buildings will be gone, but their organizing principles persist.
The shopping center at the southwest southeast corner of Montrose Blvd. and 59 known as Chelsea Market has just recently gotten the chain-link wraparound, as shown above from the west (top) and east (above). Its days had been numbered ever since plans showing a Broadstone apartment tower in place of the 3-building retail complex surfaced online last year.
Renderings of the tower, to be named Broadstone Museum District, show it rising 16-stories high:
Montrose Blvd. at 59
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
A light smattering of homes today, with a refreshing hint of mortar:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
One man’s shed is another man’s pile of rubble.
