Back again . . . with the Neighborhood Guessing Game! Where on earth is this place? Okay, where in Houston?
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Neighborhood Guessing Game
Where is this week’s mystery pad? Three of you guessed the Heights. Eastwood and Montrose got 2 votes each. Other guesses: Woodland Heights, Braes Heights, Riverside Terrace, “Wahtever that area is called bordered by West Gray/Shepherd.Westheimer and Commonwealth. Behind Hugo’s and around Mockingbird Bistro,” Southampton, Southgate, Cherryhurst, Castle Court, West University, and Spring Branch.
First out of the gate was Miz Brooke Smith, who called:
Montrose. A single-family home or maybe a converted upstairs-downstairs duplex, with bathrooms updated in the ’80s. The big-plant curtains betray the ’80s, and the sun porch off the master bedroom is the Montrose giveaway.
And what about the checkerboard tile Kitchen floor? Is that even legal in any other part of town? Another player might have trumped Miz B. S. by mentioning Mandell Place, but Montrose is good enough to win it. Congratulations!
A special commendation goes to this week’s secret agent, David W, who was one of two readers to write in with the actual answer, but followed up with this distracting “guess”:
From the windows and sunroom off the master I would say it was built in the 30’s. From the black and white kitchen floor, glossy cabinets, and white Sub-Zero I would say remodeled (and not inexpensively) in the eighties. Could be Montrose but I am going to guess Riverside Terrace probably on the South side of the bayou since the updates aren’t more recent.
The home’s actual details?
The Neighborhood Guessing Game is back! Can you guess where this mystery pad is?
Newcomers: You’ll want to look at the rules. They come in handy when you think you’ve got it all figured out.
More photos below!
Yeah, we know what’s been on your mind this afternoon and evening: Just where is that house from this week’s Neighborhood Guessing Game?
You guessed: Friendswood, Meyerland, and Old Braeswood. We had 2 for Tealwood, 2 votes for Memorial close to Voss, 2 for the Memorial Villages closer to Beltway 8 than Voss, 2 for River Oaks, 2 for Hunter’s Creek Village, and 3 for Tanglewood. Also: Gessner and Memorial, south of Memorial between Beltway 8 and Kirkwood, Bunker Hill, close-in Memorial, the Westcott area between Memorial and Washington, Memorial between Chimney Rock and Blalock, one of the Memorial Villages, Piney Point Village, and Indian Creek.
That’s a lot of Memorial! Thank you, Jeff, for simply framing the question:
This HAS to be Memorial Villages. But which one?
The win goes to K, who knows her Villages . . . and maybe a little somethin’ about Houston in the seventies:
Definitely Memorial Villages. You can tell by the heavily wooded lot and the size of the home for the year it was built (1970s). This was someone’s swank, possibly key-party-ish pad back in the booming 70s when all the richies were building their huge new homes in the Villages. I say Piney Point. It’s too modern for Bunker Hill, and has too many trees for Hilshire Village or Spring Valley, but this looks exactly like something you’d run across in Piney Point.
Three more of you who got the geography right — but missed the neighborhood name — get honorable mentions: sarahc, tcpIV, and Joni Webb.
Special honors go to David W, for leading off the guessing confidently in exactly the wrong direction:
Go 70’s – love all the angles. This house looks like it was expensively built but hasn’t been updated to much except maybe the glass block in the master bath – vintage Sub-Zero, big rooms, and nice courtyard out back. Clearly mature vegetation outside – I’m thinking Friendswood.
Yes, David W knew this house — and wrote to us about it. Did he throw you off?
After the jump: the big reveal!
Here we go again! 12 interior photos. One mystery house. Can you figure out where it is?
Look closely for clues. Or make a wild guess. Either way, please follow the rules.
When you’re ready to play home sleuth, take a look at the photos below:
Your guesses for this week’s Neighborhood Guessing Game challenge? All over the place! We had votes for Humble, Silverlake, “off Augusta near San Felipe,” “old Pearville,” off NASA Rte. 1 toward 6 in Friendswood or Alvin, Jersey Village, Mt. Belvieu, Spring, Clear Lake, Atascocita, off Bering, Cinco Ranch, around the Astrodome, The Woodlands, and Gessner near Memorial City. No pileups!
Oh, but this was a tough one. None of you even came close.
Maybe if we had thrown in a few pics of the back yard . . . ?
And here they are, straight from the cameraphone: Pics for this week’s Neighborhood Guessing Game. Can you guess where this house is?
If you think you can, add your guess to the comments below, and tell us how you figured it out. If you’re new to the game, please read the rules first.
Ready for a quick tour through this week’s mystery pad?
Here’s where some of you thought this house might be: Boulevard Oaks, S. Post Oak/Westbury, Tanglewilde (or “near the Beltway and Richmond”), Bellaire, “around Pinemont,” Highway 6 and FM 1960, Willowbend, Garden Oaks, Afton Village, Spring Branch, Braeswood, the larger “Braeswood area” between Buffalo Speedway and 610, Maplewood South, “outside the Loop off Ella and east of 290,” Bellfort/Fondren, Ella Lee Forest, and the Museum District off Banks or Milford.
The pileups were in Oak Forest (4 guesses), Sharpstown (3 guesses), and Timbergrove (2). We also had two “ish” votes: a “Westburyish” and a “Meyerland-ish.”
The winner this week was That Girl, who was first to name Westbury — and wasn’t ishy-washy about it!
An honorable mention goes to MariaO, one of several participants who did a good job figuring the home’s approximate age and some likely locations. But Maria also ID’d the wall art:
Definitely built in the 1950s, and could feasibly be located in many near-loop neighborhoods of that era. . . .
fyi, the “stencil†in the front entry is actually wall stickers from http://www.whatisblik.com (Flock model)– so they’ll come off easily for the next owner.
More home details . . . after the jump!
Are you ready for this week’s round of the Neighborhood Guessing Game? We’re playing it anyway.
You pore over the photos. You gather the clues. You decide what neighborhood this place is in. You enter your brilliant thoughts in the comments below this entry. (And if you’re new to the game, you read the rules first.)
You figure it all out? You win!
More photos of this lovely abode lie below. Go get ’em!
This week’s Neighborhood Guessing Game sent readers guessing all over town! In our first round we had 3 votes for Clear Lake and 2 for Galveston, plus guesses of Hudson on Memorial, “behind Second Baptist Church,” Bering or Potomac between Woodway and Westheimer, Montrose, just west of Kirby and south of 59, Friendswood, a suburb “out 59,” Newcastle or Bissonnet in West U, Southampton, Brook Forest, El Lago, Pasadena, the Galleria, Lake Conroe, Clear Lake Shores, Rice Military, Cypress Creek near Kuykendahl, The Woodlands, and Seabrook.
After a hint and an extension, we had more guesses: Copperfield, Fondren Southwest, Bear Creek, “around Lawndale and Wayside,” Port Arthur, “off 290 and Mangum/40th,” off 290 just outside the Loop, Tomball, Kingwood, Lakeside Forest, Walnut Bend, Briarcroft, Baytown, Spring Branch near Memorial and Dairy Ashford, the Medical Center, Spring Branch near I-10 and Gessner, Deer Park, and off Memorial near the Buffalo Bayou.
And we have a winner! Well, close enough. It’s Lyn, who waited to see Jessica‘s reasonable-sounding guess, then refined it and pounced:
“perhaps it’s one of the 60s/70s era neighborhoods in Spring Branch, say, near Memorial/Dairy Ashford?â€
This.
Spring Branch but I’m guessing near I-10/Gessner.
Something like . . . Spring Shadows?
An honorable mention goes to karen, who walked us through decades of real-estate logic:
Low ceilings = either revolutionary war era or after 1945.
No moldings = 60’s thru 80’s
Paneling, fake marble countertops, wrought iron = focusing like a laser on the 70’s, man!
Kitchen, fireplace surround = renovations done about 10 years ago
new master bathroom cabinets, real granite countertop = renovations finished this year to prep this baby for sale
fish bathroom = clearly a redo circa ‘00 – love that sink – but why? why? why?
House plants, clutter, more clutter = older homeowners who remember the 70’s really, really well
The big seventies reveal — after the jump!
Sure, this week’s Neighborhood Guessing Game is a tough one. But none of you have come anywhere close to the right answer. By one calculation, the closest guess anyone has made is almost 10 miles away.
So we’re gonna blow past our regular Thursday deadline — and give you just a little more time to guess. If you’ve been holding back because you thought someone else had maybe already figured it out, take a stab at it yourself. If you’ve already made a guess . . . try another one!
Here’s a hint . . . but it’s one you probably know already: Try to ignore all that decor. Just strip this house naked . . . in your mind. Where could this naked house be?
- Neighborhood Guessing Game: Something Fishy [Swamplot]
Photo: HAR
And now it’s time to take a break from Houston’s continuing real-estate train wrecks to bring you the week’s Neighborhood Guessing Game. If the home portrayed in this post were a residence somewhere in or around Houston (and it is), where would it be?
Care to guess? Just look through the photos below and add your comment. If it’s your first time playing, read the rules first.
Ready?
The house with the red carpet prompted a wide range of neighborhood guesses this week: 2 each for Willowbend, Lindale Park, and Spring Branch (one of them specifying the area near Long Point or Gessner). Plus: River Oaks, Afton Village, Champion Forest, Oak Forest, Pasadena, Irvington, Meyerland, Sharpstown, Houston Country Club Place, Simms Woods, Hampshire Oaks, Mason Park Terrace, Glenbrook Valley, the East Side, the near East Side, the North Side, the near South Side, and Briarcroft.
But that wasn’t all. A larger number of you this week provided longer descriptions for the neighborhoods. Are we running out of names? These included the I-45/Tidwell/Airline area, the Tidwell/I-45 area close to Luna St., “the cultural cavity that is bounded by I-45/59/I10/610″ (??), the North Side near the Hardy Toll Road, East Westbury off Bellfort, “north of 610 N between the toll road and 45,” the Gulfgate area “east around the brewery or on the other side of the east loop,” “the post-oak so main area in the netherworld between the loop and the beltway,” “Stella Link/Willowbend – to the east of Post Oak and South of the Loop,” off Irvington Park Blvd. just north of 610, “East Side, south of the Lawndale/Telephone nexus but well inside the South Loop,” Riverside (Terrace)/MacGregor, OST/Griggs/South Loop area, “Mykawa/South Acres/Bellfort/Almeda Genoa-kind-of-area,” Mangum/290, and Westbury Sq./W. Airport.
Whew. Those Willowbend guesses . . . so close! The winner was tcpIV, who impressed the judges with this more specific entry:
Poor Granny. We loved her so. I’m hoping for the Stella Link/Willowbend area – to the east of Post Oak and South of the Loop. She was quite a housekeeper though. Gosh I miss her.
tcpIV edged out Chuckles, who drew a slightly larger boundary around
the post-oak so main area in the netherworld between the loop and the beltway
and went home with the Silver. Actual subdivision name: Westwood.
An honorable mention goes to marmer, who wrote:
This looks a lot like my mom’s house, which was built in 1952. The attic fan switch and heater filter detail are identical. Lots of other bathroom elements and little architectural touches are similar. Unfortunately for this particular Guessing Game, she doesn’t live in Houston. Fortunately for me, she’s still alive and has neither the money nor the bad taste to do this to her house. Mid-to-low priced postwar tract house. Not a bungalow. Pre-MCM. Could be almost anywhere.
After the jump: The gory details.
Here we go with that Neighborhood Guessing Game again! All that distracting furniture’s been cleared out, so you can focus on the house itself this time. Just one question: Where is this place?
Take a look at all the photos below, then let us know what neighborhood you think it’s in . . . and why. If you’ve never played before, please take a look at the rules before you post. There are a few twists!
Ready for more?
Looks like this week’s game was a bust. Did we even get any real guesses?
Oh, a few. Your comments mentioned Beaumont, River Oaks, the Westside Tennis Club, Hooks Airport, Waller County, Riverside (Terrace?), the Third Ward, Sharpstown, Fondren, Harwin, and Downtown.
No bluffers showed up.
So no winner this time. But a bunch of you sure had some fun with it! An honorable mention goes to Brad, for this first-rate snark:
The drop ceilings, the steel beam kickouts on the walls, the plastic chandeliers, the ‘media’ room with microwave stand and cafe-style seating, the fantasy executive boardroom with ‘conference’ table, and the executive exercise pool…
This is the Corporate Crimes wing of the Federal Prison near Beaumont where they sent Andy Fastow. The drapes and mini-blinds are covering the bars.
Bravo. And thanks again to the tipster who provided this ripe subject. What are its actual coordinates?
