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  • miss_msry

    Poor little River Oaks area home. Bye-bye.

  • Matt Mystery

    Another classic home makes way for another monstrosity.

  • marmer

    Not that I’m justifying a teardown by any means, but I’m always amazed by how small a lot of those “classic” foursquares are. Little kitchen, den, living room, dining room downstairs; three little bedrooms and two tiny baths upstairs. Or maybe a powder room under the stairs and one bath upstairs. This one is 2700 sq. feet and change; that’s only 700 square feet larger than my suburban “cottage-style” tract house.

    Last time I drove through the Kasserine Pass area, just south of the South Loop, I thought it was pretty rough. (all the streets are named after famous battles or battlefields.) Given its location, that would be a nice area to start seeing a turnaround.

  • Matt Mystery

    Little kitchen, den, living room, dining room downstairs; three little bedrooms and two tiny baths upstairs. Or maybe a powder room under the stairs and one bath upstairs.
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    Lots of us grew up in those small houses. And thought they were big. Now they’re not so big. If you’re into big.

    “I have, therefore I am” and the more square footage you have, I suppose, the more you are.

  • marmer

    To the extent that I’m into anything, I guess it would have to be “small” if the choices are between “small” and “big.” My point is simply that two stories, symmetry and columns do not alone a mansion make. Poor house was probably doomed when the stucco McMansion went up next door.

  • mary t.

    It’s all in the eye of the beholder, but I wouldn’t call any of the rooms at 2400 Ella Lee small! Of course, I live in a 1750 sf 3/2 ranch right now and was raised in a 796 sf 2/1 house (admittedly with a basement) in Chicago. . .

  • chester

    According to HCAD this is 1052 square feet, built in 1956. What are we talking about here?

    This was a “McMansion” in ’56. Keep up this kind of talk at the Mayor will let the HAHC designate all homes prior to 1960 as “potentially contributing” and NOT allow ANY demolitions. Who really cares about this ugly house? It looks just like my parents house that was built in ’67 in the burbs, except mine was bigger and does not have asbestos in the tile grout and the sheetrock mud.

  • miss_msry

    Chester,

    I just said bye-bye, not make it into an historical monument. Yes, my family had a house much like this built in Memorial about 1964, except it was three times larger, and it will probably be torn down in the near future.

  • Tatlin

    We actually looked at this house when it was on the market. We were hoping to renovate, but it had a strange previously renovated floorplan upstairs that was, for all intents and purposes, unfixable without structural changes. Those structural changes were impossible for us at the price they were asking. I guess they just wanted to sell to someone who could afford to buy it at that price AND build new. Too bad, it had really pretty bones. :(

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