Per historian Steven Fox’s telling, the 1933 home at what’s now 2330 N. Braeswood Blvd. is the work of architect Joseph Finger (a few years after the Lancaster Hotel was built, and a few years before Finger went on to design City Hall). The 4-bedroom house sits on 1.13 acres and was the first one built along Braeswood Ct. (which loops off of N. Braeswood just west of S. Main St.). The exterior railings shown above are copper, and the enthusiastically tropical painted tile mural on the chimney reportedly dates back to the 1930s as well.
The Old Braeswood Property Owners Association traces the house’s Houston-history-heavy ownership record in a 2013 newsletter; the article follows the trail from a mysterious associate of Spindletop oilman T.P. Lee, to friends of future Texas governor Ross Sterling, to the son of Meyerland namesake Frank Meyer and beyond.
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Ceilings in many of the house’s formal rooms are jazzed up with gold leaf:Â
- 2330 N. Braeswood Blvd. [HAR]
- Your House Has a History [OBPOA, pg. 2]
- Braeswood: An Architectural Tour [Cite Magazine, 2010]
Photos: HAR
dammit i want this house so bad. would be better if it was a little further back into the neighborhood. that tile under the pool table rocks
Love the basement and how everything has avoided “beige-ification.”