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Thursday, May 15, 2008

Neighborhood Guessing Game Over: Front Door on the Side

Neighborhood Guessing Game 7: Den

This week’s puzzle prompted some terrific efforts again from our photo-detective readers. With four votes each, Timbergrove and Oak Forest were the most popular guesses. Next came Garden Oaks (with 3 votes), followed by Tanglewood, Meyerland, Willow Meadows, Willowbend, Knollwood Village, and Shepherd Forest, with 2 votes each. Other guesses were Bellaire, Norhill, Timberside, “Mandell/Montrose on Banks or Milford,” Highland Village, Mangum Manor, Lazybrook, Sharpstown, Stella Link/Med Center area, Woodside, Woodshire, Ayrshire, Braes Heights, Afton Oaks, Piney Point, Hedwig Village, Bunker Hill Village, and Briargrove.

This week’s winner is Starkeshia, a guessing-game regular who was the first to name . . . Oak Forest!

The house looks like nearly a total redo, but there also appear to be some original features left such as the front windows, and the front door, hardwoods everywhere, sliding closet doors…I’d say this is a mid century home. Looks too small to be in Meyerland or Bellaire, however.

Our honorable mention goes to margo, for identifying an entertaining but perhaps not especially useful clue: there appear to be burglar bars on the bathroom windows!

Karen also had some comments that helped build the Oak Forest-area consensus:

I see aluminum windows and molding that say early 50s. Small kitchen w/o breakfast area says small house. Ceilings are too low for a bungalow. Wood floors are all new, so could be an Alison redo, but the kitchen base cabinets look original to me, so odds are there was no flood here, just a nice updating job.

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Friday, March 7, 2008

Weekend Open House Tour: Oak Forest

What will you find in Oak Forest? Big lots with variously updated 1950s-era ranch homes, tall oaks and pines . . . and granite countertops! Below are five homes in the neighborhood open this weekend:

1411 Candlelight Ln., Oak Forest, Houston

Location: 1411 Candlelight Ln.
Details: 4 bedrooms, 1 1/2 baths; 1,700 sq. ft.
Price: $237,000
The Scoop: 1955 ranch with kiddie playground, back patio, and carport. Bunk bed in 4th bedroom is available! New tile, granite countertops, stainless-steel appliances, fresh mulch, and much more. Listed just a week and a half ago.
Open House: Sunday, noon-4 pm

There’s more in our tour . . .

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Thursday, September 20, 2007

Daily Demolition Report: Falling from the Heights

1411 Allston St., Houston

A home from the 1930s comes down from the Heights. Plus: an Intercontinental casualty. See our daily address list of destruction—after the jump.

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Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Daily Demolition Report: Decline and Fall

As autumn creeps in, Neighborhood Protection rolls up to demo a rundown home near U of H. Addresses for the protected property and eight other demo-bound houses are in our daily list.

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Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Daily Demolition Report: Razing in the Sun

A whole lotta demo going on: A county outpost downtown, more industrial buildings along Studemont, plenty of houses, and more. Our daily list of addresses begins after the jump.

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Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Daily Demolition Report: Industrial Downsizing

More industrial buildings along Studemont come down. See the addresses where the carnage continues—after the jump.

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Friday, August 3, 2007

Daily Demolition Report: Heading Down Around Town

A lovely and diverse group of demolitions in today’s edition. See them after the jump.

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Monday, July 23, 2007

Daily Demolition Report: Abdicating the Crowne

The Crowne Plaza Hotel in the Med Center goes down, Green Hill Dr. gets flattened, and more in today’s demolition report, below.

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Friday, July 20, 2007

Daily Demolition Report: Petty Crash

Four lorn homes, ready to meet their landfill. See the list after the jump.

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Thursday, July 19, 2007

Daily Demolition Report: Approval for Removal

3332 Parkwood Dr.The Doyle Mansion gets its dismissal papers. Plus a Riverside Terrace teardown (you’re looking at it) and nine more homes say goodbye—all in today’s report.

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Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Daily Demolition Report: Thinning Harrisburg

Twenty doomed structures today. Say goodbye to them—after the jump.

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Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Daily Demolition Report: What’s Going Down in Greenview Manor

Fourteen soon to be forgotten houses have a date with destruction. Our list begins after the jump.

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Monday, June 18, 2007

Daily Demolition Report: The Fall of Ben Hur

A Heights institution falls. That and more in our daily list of demolition permits—after the jump.

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Friday, June 15, 2007

Daily Demolition Report: Pushovers

On today’s knock-down docket: Portions of four businesses and six houses. Read ’em and weep—after the jump.

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Thursday, June 14, 2007

Daily Demolition Report: Tearing Up the City Fabric

Four businesses and seven residences gained official release from the restricting confines of structural integrity yesterday. What’s going down? Our list of falling buildings is after the jump.

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Friday, June 8, 2007

Daily Demolition Report: Y’all Fall Down

Knocked down in Houston: Six end-of-life houses—after the jump.

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