Comments on: Neighborhood Guessing Game: Fine Dining

By: kristen

kristen — Wed, 06 May 2009 04:24:38 +0000

the 1960 jones road area. if i have to be more specific, i would guess between jones road and 249 off cypresswood drive.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:43:06 +0000

I’m going to guess this is one of the first rebuilds of the eighties in Bellaire. The first few pictures suggest the home is breaking free from the land’s 1950s tract-home roots, but by the time they got to the small second floor (and the garage!) the ghost of the 1,500 square foot deceased came back in the form of kitchen cabinets and office windows.

The bay window in the master bath shows that they left a little bit of yard - that doesn’t happen these days…

By: Cathy

Cathy — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 04:16:20 +0000

My first thought was Memorial and Dairy Ashford. The tub overlooking the back yard doesn’t look right to me though. I’m going to take a wild stab much further south — Sharpstown.

By: B.

B. — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 21:19:36 +0000

I believe the neighborhood is called Spring Shadows. That’s already been guessed, but I’ll specifically say the neighborhood bordered by Kempwood and Hammerly (N&S)and Campbell and Gessner (E&W) in Spring Branch. I LOVE this game!

By: flake

flake — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:32:39 +0000

To CK: Out with the “caro sposo”? Do I detect a Jane Austen fan, Dear Reader? This home does display a shocking lack of satin. :-)

By: Rachel

Rachel — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:45:59 +0000

Wow! Such a great number of resposes this week. So many areas have already been taken. I grew up in a house similar to this style too of Wilcrest and Memorial. How I loved going to the neighborhood pool during the summer. Many have already guessed that area so I am going to guess elsewhere…Hmmm the multiple locks on the front door does translate to either a nervous home owner or an area of town which isn’t the safest. I think my Mom has those exact same chairs in the pictured in the livingroom, she has had her’s reapolstered…All along I45 there are some smaller older neighborhoods closer to the freeway. I would say the Huntsville area, but there aren’t enough pine trees in the backyard…I will go with I45 and Cypresswood, near Spring High School.

By: Dee Ann

Dee Ann — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:54:34 +0000

I don’t think it’s a Kickerillo…
I think it’s Goettee…he was a custom guy in my guessed areas..before he moved North.

By: JPSivco

JPSivco — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 15:21:00 +0000

wow. the heavy front door lockage tells me this spaceship rode through the last foreclosure cycle in the middle of the 1960/Champions/249 asteroid belt.

I say a block or two from Champions Forest Shopping Center. Maybe even across the street from being on Champions golf course.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:53:43 +0000

Nottingham Forest 8 just hasn’t been the same since Katrina filled that Section 8 housing…

By: Amanda

Amanda — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 13:12:47 +0000

Don’t know the name of the suburb, but I’ll guess somewhere off Memorial View Drive, just west of Eldridge and Memorial.

That little old neighborhood kind of tucked in between Memorial Oaks Cemetery and Hershey Park. Could be a little further west off Barker’s Landing (closer to Hwy 6).

By: movocelot

movocelot — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:57:45 +0000

Oh.
I just saw that JT ALREADY guessed Greenwood Forest.
hmmm - I’ll say “Theall Road” itself!

By: movocelot

movocelot — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 12:53:11 +0000

I know a house in College Station with nearly all these same details! though a single-story. It was built for faculty - in the 60’s - to evoke cultured, olde England.
Also, I’ve seen that brick cooktop-niche in a couple homes in older Champions, south of 1960, Greenwood Forest, Theall Rd. runs through the area. That’s my neighborhood guess.

It’s forested there, with many big lots. This guy may have been an engineer, from Michigan, who raised his family in the quiet, country suburb (which is, today, surrounded by crime) while Houston became Boomtown. They were status-conscious, responsible homeowners and kept up with the place. This was the era when formals were formal and dens were paneled, by golly! But no pool for them; they were much too frugal.
The house is still evocative of its era: ash built-ins, bays and paneled window-seat, cabinet doors that won’t completely close anymore, Romanesque-y fireplace, applied-molding wainscote, tiny sidelight blinds, horizontally-divided, single-hung, aluminum windows (wouldn’t you just FREEZE trying to get in a wintertime soak in that tub? like the penguin exhibit at the zoo.)
The exterior is brick with the half-timber styling in the gable ends, and thick posts with ogee brackets at the front porch, painted dark brown.