Thanks to y’all for playing the Neighborhood Guessing Game! We had 19 guessers and 24 guesses for this week’s contest. And they were all over the place . . . but all inside the Loop!
Three of you guessed Montrose and another 3 guessed the Houston Heights. There were 2 votes each for Brookesmith, Washington Terrace, Riverside Terrace, Lindale Park, and Idylwood or Eastwood. Other guesses were: Bellaire, Woodland Heights, the Reliant Park area, Midtown, Sunset Heights, Southgate, Winlow Place and environs, and “over by the Orange Show.”
The winner this week was missjanel, who was the first to mention Lindale Park . . . though she didn’t explain her guess.
Sure, there were plenty of neighborhoods a house like this could have been in. How were you supposed to figure out Lindale Park? No one nailed it precisely, but some commenters were pretty sharp at picking up the clues. jgbiggs noted
a brick house next door with a horribly inappropriate iron fence. Also, the painted over windows on the front door give evidence that it is in a high crime neighborhood.
Jeff was (probably) off about the vintage of the house next door, but pointed out:
Definitely a gentrifying area. New behemoth next to a bungalow with no central AC.
Commenter karen noted some of the contradictions:
The bricks next door are so close and the gold-tipped iron fence so ugly that it really could be West U, but then this would be a tear-down, so why show interior house images on HAR?
Lastly, Mike noted that the brick house next door was probably an older one. And one of his 3 guesses was Lindale Park!
Let’s add it all up: well-kept or recently redone hardwood floors? Check. New, reasonably sophisticated interior paint colors? Check. Security-conscious fencing nearby? Check. Toddler toys in bedroom? Check. Nearby property values probably not high enough to support yuppifying the kitchen or dealing with the window-unit AC? Check.
It wasn’t runaway obvious, but Lindale Park does fit those specs.
After the jump: The house! Where, what, and how much.
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