Comments on: Neighborhood Guessing Game: Off Center

By: SanchO

SanchO — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 19:36:05 +0000

i’ll venture and go where no one wants to go.. river oaks, somewhere in the more crowded part, somewhere in the triangle created by shepherd, inwood/w gray, and kirby..

By: karen

karen — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:24:54 +0000

Oh, this is totally southhampton! 1940’s construction, and beautifully updated. No professor in southgate could afford to do that. and it can’t be river oaks or old braeswood because the lot’s just not big enough. there are neighbors all but peeking in the windows!

By: Brad

Brad — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 15:18:18 +0000

Nice place if a bit too L.Ashley on the interior design. Wish I had another area to guess, but think the entire Museum District has all been taken. Anyone guess Castle Court? I’ll take that for 100.

By: John

John — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 23:28:53 +0000

Definitely an 1930s-40s home with some recent remodeling (kitchen). There are gable roofs faintly visible out the windows so I will rule out Ayrshire. The decor suggests a matron with good taste (though it may have been early 90s furnishings). My gut says Southampton because the house across the street looks too close for the deeper setbacks in River Oaks.

By: EMME

EMME — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:31:35 +0000

Second guess…Rivercrest.

By: Marie

Marie — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:35:31 +0000

Bellaire, of course.

By: John

John — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:30:04 +0000

The built-in bookcases and day-bed thingy look exactly like those in my Ayrshire ranch house, and since this one fairly old and two stories, I’m going with Old Braeswood.

By: Miz Brooke Smith

Miz Brooke Smith — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:47:22 +0000

Now, Gus, you could be tricking us with this week’s title and this place could be new construction in the First Ward “off Center.” The views out the windows seem too broad for that part of town, and putting up such a nice place in the land of shotguns, cottages and towering townhouses seems incongruous. But there’s my #2 guess nonetheless.

By: marmer

marmer — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:30:30 +0000

Everywhere I’d guess has already been taken. But, I’m fond of saying “Never trust the obvious,” so I’ll go with Riverside Terrace.

By: EMME

EMME — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:29:42 +0000

On a whim, Garden Oaks?

By: Laura

Laura — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:16:33 +0000

I’m going to the other side of 59 and saying between Richmond and Alabama, maybe between Hazard and Dunlavy?

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:25:44 +0000

I am thinking this is an older home, updated within the past few years. I was going to say Memorial, but you don’t have many older homes with multiple stories. Thinking what was attic space has been updated for a home office on the 3rd floor or above garage. This has to be an older neighborhood. Maybe near North and South Blvd.