The arched pavilion in Meadowcreek Park that was knocked down in 2015 has officially been replaced, after a few years of neighborhood-city back-and-forth to push for the new structure’s design to look a lot more like the old one. The court, pictured up top complete except for the addition of the hoops and backboards to the posts at the opposing ends, got a ceremonial fabric snipping yesterday evening, Lauren Meyers tells Swamplot. This version of the structure appears to lack the thin vertical bars that closed off one side of the original, as visible both in the mid-act demolition portrait above and in this shot from the 1970s:Â
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- Previously on Swamplot:Â A Cement Truck Lineup for Round 2 of a Mod Meadowcreek Village Basketball Pavilion;Â Sixties Mod Meadowcreek Park B-Ball Pavilion Bites the Dust
Photos: Lauren Meyers (top and bottom); Jose Rocha (demo); arch-ive.org (historical photo from Harris County archives)
Congratulations to all who rallied to have the original pavilion recreated. It’s a stunner!
Those vertical bars on the end may have had an engineering function…ie., to keep the structure from flying away.
Look at how the trees have grown!
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