Daily Demolition Report: Neither Home Norfolk

2033 Norfolk St., Albemarle Place

Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.

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Photo of 2033 Norfolk St.: HAR

3 Comment

  • Shame to see the Norfolk house go in 20 years there will no historic homes left something need to be done to save these houses now.

  • Eh, call me crazy but based on that picture I think that house may have had some slight structural problems. Hard to know for sure, but those are some pretty concerning scars there.

  • MrEction: Yup, and I have an apt building that has similar ‘scars’. The city came and red tagged me and said I have to get a $$ engineer out to certify the building was okay. Cost about $2k, they wrote a super simple “Looks good” and the city said “okay”.
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    Took a sold day or two of dealing with the city, plus all their fees, plus the $2k, all because I had a crack like that in an 80 year old vintage building.
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    If I was a low income home owner facing that, with people trying to buy my house to demo, I’d say “take it” and move.
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    People wonder why stuff gets knocked down. It’s not because of ‘evil developers’ all the time