Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is demolition.
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Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Plunge boldly into the thick of demolition!
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Your good demolitions will always win over your bad luck.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Little houses, the fates are calling on you.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Here the figures, here the colors, here all the images of every part of the structure are demolished to a point.
The partially ruined former Jefferson Davis Hospital nurses quarters at 1225 Elder St. — until very recently in the running for a spot on the National Register of Historic Places — was recommended for demolition at last week’s Harris County Commissioner’s Court meeting following a public hearing the day before. The building, tucked west of the elevated freeway tangle where I-45 splits from I-10 near Downtown, would have joined the nextdoor former Jefferson Davis Hospital itself on the historic registry — instead, it looks like the structure will finally meet meet the ‘dozers after its long slow decline, accelerated by damage from a fire in 2013 that lead to last year’s semi-collapse.
Next door, the 4-story hospital structure (built in 1924, and replaced by 1938 with another Jefferson Davis Hospital where the Federal Reserve building now stands on Allen Pkwy.) cycled through various modes of use and disuse until its early 2000’s restoration into the Elder Street Artist Lofts, which serve as low-rent apartments and studios for artsy types. That redevelopment, of course, involved carefully digging around the dozens of unmarked graves turned up on the surrounding land, which beginning in 1840 had served as the second city cemetery (and as the final resting place for a hodgepodge likely including  Confederate soldiers, former slaves, victims of the 1860s yellow fever epidemics, people who died in duels, Masons, and a variety of others). The hospital’s name is still carved above the lofts’ entrance:
First Ward Fire Damage by HFD
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Houses must be dealt with before the hour gets too late.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Whether survey or chalk, these houses are done for.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Pure demolition is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Grab a piece of history with the deferential hands of the bulldozer.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Structures fall, but the thorns remain.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
But a house is not made for defeat. A house can be destroyed but not defeated.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Slow down and everything you are demolishing will come around and catch you.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Out of your demolitions will come your strength.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The purpose of life is to be demolished by greater and greater things.
