The once-white house at 435 Hawthorne — where a young LBJ stayed rent-free with his Uncle George in his early 1930’s pre-politickin’ teacher days — is up for grabs again. The 2-story 3-bedroom at the corner with Garrott St. (half a block east of Taft) is back on the market as of just under 2 weeks ago for just under $750,000. The Westmoreland Historic District home was sold back in 2012 for $266,000 and change, and most recently went for about $535,000 in 2013 (post flip-ready redo).
What’s new this time around? You can look for yourself at some of the new finishes in the click-and-drag 360-degree photo tour set up by the current sellers, including some rotate-in-place views inside what’s advertised as a use-it-or-rent-it garage apartment suite out back. The new sales site also notes that the back yard has been redone with an easy-to-please spread of artificial lawn:
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The apartment out back contains 1 bedroom . . .
1 bathroom . . .
and 1 kitchen:
The front yard still retains characteristics of the historic live plant style:
The updated interior of the main house is now showing some new stripes:
Here’s the view from the upstairs patio looking onto the corner with Garrott:
And here’s the view from one of the bathrooms onto that same patio:
Another sitting space is tucked in upstairs with the 3 bedrooms:
Here’s the 1904 LBJ house in place next to the 1960s Emerson House apartment complex (to the front right below):
- House History [435 Hawthorne St.]
- 435 Hawthorne St. [HAR]
- Previously on Swamplot:Â Taking A Few More Shots at Houston’s LBJ House;Â The Plan To Flip Houston’s LBJ House;Â Former LBJ Stomping Ground Knocks Off $50K
Photos:Â HAR
You have to go through the kitchen to get upstairs? I must have missed something.
That’s an old piece of framed ‘artwork’… ‘City of Champions’? Houston, really?
I like the gray/white scheme. And the fake grass is a nice touch…to remind us how those in power display what looks and sounds attractive until you really understand what it is. From the curb it looks fab.
Talk about price inflation!!! The r/e market make no sense. It’s crazy..The house is charming,but quirky and and old “character” houses are a pain in the ass to maintain.Lived in two old houses-never again..
The patio views into the bathroom were a nice touch, particularly with the below waist-level windows., lol
We love old homes and we looked at this house when it was on the market it 2013. We were explicitly looking for another historical home to restore and the flip was so poorly done that we thought this might be a potential project for another re-do. All of the charm has been striped out and the most awful HD-special finishes were put in. The bathrooms are hideous and poorly planned….does not appear an architect was involved. In the end, we couldn’t come to a price that was acceptable considering we’d be tearing out the flip, and that was when it was a couple hundred thousand cheaper than it is now! Wish we had come across it when it originally hit the market in 2012.
BTW…it’s a split staircase. One exit into the kitchen another into the front living room that meet on a landing. Another interesting tidbit: the garage is sinking. Can’t open the exterior doors because It is a good foot or so below ground level.