Comments on: Neighborhood Guessing Game: Red Carpet Treatment

By: karen

karen — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 19:22:49 +0000

WHERE ARE THE WINDOW UNITS? It’s the heat that killed grandma. There are no registers for central air/heat and there’s an old ceramic heater in the master bath.

And that lovely double oven in the kitchen? It replaces an old freestanding stove that used to have a chimney through the ceiling (note the totally inadequate ventilation over the current cooktop).

Eastside. Inside the loop. Probably around Navigation or the Elysian viaduct.

This says ’40s rather than 50’s to me.

By: EMME

EMME — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:16:28 +0000

Old Briarcroft homes did not have the phone niches. I grew up in one.

By: Ellen

Ellen — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:46:31 +0000

This is wannabe tanglewood aka briarcroft that only just allowed its ranchs to be zoned for two stories a few years ago.

By: Liz S.

Liz S. — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:03:23 +0000

Hmm. I am thinking Spring Branch. The burglar bars make me think it may be close to Longpoint or Gessner. I love the plaid wall paper in the bath, it’s killer!

By: Pat

Pat — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:25:15 +0000

Westbury Square/W. Airport area

By: Stephen

Stephen — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:41:15 +0000

The hall is too long for Willowbend. I’m guessing Mangum/290 area.

By: marmer

marmer — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 03:59:46 +0000

This looks a lot like my mom’s house, which was built in 1952. The attic fan switch and heater filter detail are identical. Lots of other bathroom elements and little architectural touches are similar. Unfortunately for this particular Guessing Game, she doesn’t live in Houston. Fortunately for me, she’s still alive and has neither the money nor the bad taste to do this to her house. Mid-to-low priced postwar tract house. Not a bungalow. Pre-MCM. Could be almost anywhere. Just for fun I’ll say the OST/Griggs/South Loop area. Wouldn’t be surprised if it turns out to be near East Side or near South Side, though. Might even be in the Mykawa/South Acres/Bellfort/Almeda Genoa-kind-of-area.

By: Howard Hughes

Howard Hughes — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:58:31 +0000

It’s a late 1940s house in an area that went downhill in the second half of the 20th century. I’m guessing inner-loop, east of downtown - Houston Country Club Place/Simms Woods, Hampshire Oaks, or Mason Park Terrace. The house could also be in Glenbrook Valley, but it looks a little too old.

By: Miz Brooke Smith

Miz Brooke Smith — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:29:55 +0000

Another guess: Riverside/McGregor. The paneling, the carpet (oh the carpet), the mirrors, the burglar bars, the chandeliers — this is an older place someone spiffed up in the disco era.

By: Miz Brooke Smith

Miz Brooke Smith — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:25:18 +0000

I dunno…something about this place says later eastside, maybe south of the Lawndale/Telephone nexus but well inside the South Loop. The phone shelf in the hall, the late-1940’s kitchen cabinetry…that long hallway speaks of an early post-war prosperity. Not too sure, so this is my wacky 2 cents this week.

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:47:39 +0000

When did Liberace move out?? I think it’s off Irvington Park Blvd. just north of the 610 North Loop.

By: tcpIV

tcpIV — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:40:28 +0000

Poor Granny. We loved her so. I’m hoping for the Stella Link/Willowbend area - to the east of Post Oak and South of the Loop. She was quite a housekeeper though. Gosh I miss her.