Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
A smashing farewell in Spring Oaks, plus more Oak Forest turnover:
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Demolitions
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
What’s turning Upland? and other pressing Houston questions:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
A Macaroni Grill sees its last day, and the sun sets on Schiller St.
There was an apt city-permit timeout on the Veterans Day holiday. Which means we’ve got nothing reduced to nothingness to show from Monday. Check back with us tomorrow to see where the excavators will show up next.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Where a new real estate office will sprout on Yale, and other future construction sites.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
It stands alone and it falls alone.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Finishing a fight that Harvey started:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
These all fall down.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
A little Stuart adventure, plus these takeaways:
Chevron made some strikingly real 3D changes to the fake 3D facade of the old Houston Press building last week, bringing it closer to total collapse. The photos above — shot over the weekend from the YMCA catty corner to the scene — show Suzanne E. Sellers’ 1994 trompe-l’œil additions to the building’s east face no longer fooling anyone, though a few sections of her work on that side and off Leeland St. remain intact.
Nothing’s crumbled yet on the unpainted, Pease-St. side:
Illusions Shattered
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
You heard it here.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Signals coming in from Marconi, plus this Bayram blam:
COMMENT OF THE DAY: CONGRESS AVE. COLLAPSE WAS A LONG TIME COMING 
“Yeah, if you look on the street view of the building prior to collapse: nice big cracks in the masonry, which looks like a double or single wythe on the front and triple wythe in the sides. All of the bracing for the masonry appears to be missing, too. (You can see the slots at the higher elevations for the roof joists, which would have acted as a diaphragm for the structure.) Kind of amazing it took this long to collapse. Guess last night’s winds were enough to push it over the edge.” [Purdueenginerd, commenting on The Impromptu Collapse of a Congress Ave. Strip’s Most Worn-Out Pioneer] Photo: Arch-ive
The vacant, red-brick building on Congress Ave. shown above just west of Bastrop St. demolished itself this morning, leaving a gap between its turn-of-the-century contemporaries to the south and the metal-roofed warehouse north of it. During its earlier days, the building’s second floor was rented to boarders — a typical setup in this section of the Second Ward, which remained “almost entirely residential,” according to historian Stephen Fox, until Union Station opened in 1911, prompting warehouse and industrial redos nearby.
For about the last decade, it’s been roofless:
Early Morning Breakdown
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Swiftly fly the years.
