Courtesy of a smartphone-bearing reader, here’s the scene from this morning on the often-quiet Montrose corner of Harold and Mulberry, directly across the street from the Bering Memorial United Methodist Church. The single-story brick bungalow dating from 1938 at 1502 Harold St. is a goner. Croix Homes has a permit to build a new house on the site.
Photo: Swamplot inbox
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Stone crumbles, wood rots. Houses, well, they die.
And here we see before, right before, and during photos of today’s demolition of the 2-bedroom home at 4027 Portsmouth St., on the second block north of the Southwest Fwy. and just west of Weslayan St., in the appropriately named subdivision Weslayan Plaza just west of Greenway Plaza. Though the sign posted on the property appears to depict multiple townhouses new construction from Noël Home Luxury Living — better known as a home decor service of the Noel Furniture showroom across I-59 and a mile to the east at 2727 Southwest Fwy. — the buyer’s name on the permit for a new single-family home at this property is CitiView Homes.
Photos: Rex Solomon
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
There is no sweeter sound than the crumbling of one’s fellow house.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The excavator will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
If you need heroes, send in the bulldozers.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
There are no demolitions, only interpretations.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The lights turned on and the houses fell down.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Demolition is the reality and the seriousness of life.
Noticed that striking Meyerland Mod headlining our demolition report this morning? The 1956 home at 4815 Braesvalley Dr. first came to Swamplot’s attention 9 years ago, as the site of a remarkable scene. The then-86-year-old architect Lars W. Bang, a prolific purveyor of Modern Houston homes, was driven to the property in hopes that the real estate agent listing the 4-bedroom property might confirm that he was indeed its designer. “My husband, Jim, helped him out of the car and invited him into the house,” Meg Zoller wrote, “but Mr. Bang’s knees aren’t what they used to be . . . and he just wanted to stand out front and look at the house. After some time he decided that he could not confidently say whether the home was one of his designs or not.”
Bang passed away the following year, but not before his authorship of 4815 Braesvalley was confirmed. (It turned out his name was on a set of plans kept by the Meyerland Homeowner’s Association.) Writing in the next edition of the Houston Architectural Guide, Stephen Fox labeled it a home that “rescues Meyerland from being boring.” The plan contains 3 courtyard spaces, one of them now topped by a screen roof:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
A Lars Bang, that is, plus a few other prime choices to mow down.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
A little neglect may breed great demolition.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Take my excavator, now, hold it tight and don’t let go.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Tanglewood, Tanglewood always up to no good…
