Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Houses are a game and demolition is a trophy.
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Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Garage, garage, garage, goose!
The former Heights Finance Station post office at the corner of Heights Blvd. and 11th St. — its parking lot and front door face Yale St. — is coming down in a hail of lovingly painted bricks today. The post office was closed at the end of 2015 and subsequently purchased by developer MFT Interests. The single-story building was later festooned with an assortment of romance– and ZIP-code-themed murals.
MFT is calling the new development it has planned for the 1050 Yale St. site Heights Central Station. It’ll consist of two 2-story painted-brick buildings fronting 11th St.:
Heights Central Station
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
To make life worth living, he must pluck and possess the houses of each region and the love of every beauty.
It appears demolition contractors — or the site’s new owners — saw fit to remove the mural of Destiny’s Child from the House of Deréon Media Center building in Midtown before beginning to break it down last week. The time-lapse video above shows an excavator tearing apart the 2-story structure at 2204 Crawford St. piece by piece on Friday. But the southern façade of the building, which faces Hadley St., looks a little different than it did just a week earlier. Where once hung giant images of Kelly Rowland, Beyoncé Knowles, and Michelle Williams, a plain white panel appears — the mural evidently having either been removed or painted over before demolition began.
Strangely, this is not the first sign of deference the demo contractors on site have shown the Bootylicious trio, before the building touted for many years as “The Home of Destiny’s Child” was given the boot. Last week an excavator appeared in front of the mural — only to sneak away a few days later:
Didn’t Think They Could Handle This
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
And now let us welcome the new houses, full of things that never were.
COMMENT OF THE DAY: THE MIDTOWN HOME OF DESTINY’S CHILD HAS MET ITS DESTINY 
“Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but House of Deréon is but a memory now, a pile of rubble.” [Fe Bencosme, commenting on Destiny’s Child Mural on House of Deréon Media Center Wins Midtown Demolition Staredown; more here] Photo of House of Deréon Media Center, 2204 Crawford St., Midtown Houston: Jordan
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is demolished.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Life is either a daring demolition or nothing at all.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you demolish.
Does tearing down historic Houston architecture run in the family? The 1930’s house built for Harry C. Hanszen at 2945 Lazy Lane Blvd. (which showed up on Wednesday’s Daily Demolition Report last week) did in fact get the full knockdown treatment over the weekend, a couple of stunned readers tell Swamplot. The River Oaks home, designed by architect John F. Staub, was owned for a few decades by John Mecom Jr.; more recently, it was sold in 2014 to Matthew B. Arnold, per county records. The 5-acre-ish lot sits right across the road from Bayou Bend, and from the Lazy Lane spot where the historic home known as Dogwoods used to stand — before former Enron trader and experimental drone surveillance funder John D. Arnold knocked it down to make room for a boxy replacement. (Staub also designed Bayou Bend, and collaborated with Birdsall Briscoe on the Dogwoods design.)
It’s worth noting that the Hanszen house was majorly added-onto between 1979 and 1981, back when it was owned by the Mecoms — and it was largely stripped of its original interiors during that time, archi-historian Stephen Fox tells Swamplot. It’s now been stripped of its exteriors as well — which previously looked like this:
Bye Bye by Bayou Bend
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
How can I pretend that I don’t know what’s going on, when every second and every minute another building is gone?
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
We said we’d never say goodbye, but that was long ago.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
What is not demolished today is never finished tomorrow.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Everything is demolished, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.
