Comments on: Daily Demolition Report: Taking from Friar Tuck and Little John

By: miss_msry

miss_msry — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:57:19 +0000

I meant to add, in the late 40s and early 50s.

By: miss_msry

miss_msry — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 23:56:00 +0000

For those too poor to actually live in
River Oaks.

That’s the first neighborhood the new rich moved into after Dearborn and Audubon Place.

By: John

John — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:08:50 +0000

Seriously, people, how do you expect anybody to live in that old house? I live in a house with no turrets and built in only one architectural style, and every day I wake up and cry bitter tears.

By: rdan

rdan — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:14:01 +0000

@Miz Brooke Smith

the Buckingham parcel was bought by one of the previous owners from a backyard neighbor facing Buckingham. That is where the tennis court sits, behind the pool pavilion at the back of the lot.

It is a shame that this house is going to be torn down. Although the house (and grounds) have seen better days, there are some wonderful spaces both inside and out. An owner with the right vision could have restored / updated this place into a magnificant home.

By: tcpIV

tcpIV — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:44:00 +0000

The house is old. The house must be torn down. The house will be replaced by one with separate rooms for every task imaginable. The house will have a six car garage - the new four car garage. A realtor will advertise the property with ‘old growth trees’. This must be done.

By: GoogleMaster

GoogleMaster — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:09:28 +0000

@marmer, I just clicked through to the pictures of the Friar Tuck house, and now I think I’m going to be sick, too.

By: Claire

Claire — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:07:37 +0000

If I were to build a Tuscan-style house, I’d make it plain, like a real Italian house, with none of those turrets or extraneous roof peaks. I’d make sure there was plenty of lot left for lush gardens. I’d grow grapes and make wine! Then I’d paint it this color, or maybe like this. It would confuse the neighbors.

By: movocelot

movocelot — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:25:32 +0000

Yeah, nice place with all that light and space and class but did you notice? No ice maker! that’s just like TOTALLY a deal-breaker

By: Bozo

Bozo — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:44:25 +0000

MATT MYSTERY FOR CHIEF OF TASTE POLICE!!!

If he would run, he would have my vote.

How dare those wealthy people offend the unwashed masses with their lack of taste?!?!

The nerve of them……

By: Matt Mystery

Matt Mystery — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:23:54 +0000

It might be French Provencal…
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I think it was really just Ken and Joan Schnitzer W-O-W.

By: Matt Mystery

Matt Mystery — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:20:30 +0000

I think I am going to be sick. What a beautiful house. I believe, before this one, that Mr. Schnitzer lived in the former Simms mansion, Wayside, near Wayside and Lawndale.
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It’s been so long I can’t remember. I just remember being in junior high school when they moved to Friar Tuck and everyone wanted to go see the Schnitzer’s new house. Everyone did as I recall. Kenny and his brother Doug got real popular! I think they had been living in what is now Old Braeswood but had been living in the Riverside Terrace area before that. But there were a number of really nice mansions in that area of Wayside as I recall most of which are long gone. So maybe they had lived there. After the divorce he built his townouse “behind the wall” on the corner of Edloe and West Alabama and it had this same classic “wow” to it. He certainly left his marks and this house was one of them. It really is a shame it will be torn down. But, well, it’s like so many others. Just another memory at this point.

By: marmer

marmer — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:46:57 +0000

I think I am going to be sick. What a beautiful house. I believe, before this one, that Mr. Schnitzer lived in the former Simms mansion, Wayside, near Wayside and Lawndale.