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Southern ranches almost as old as air conditioning itself! This week’s homes are low slung and and unsung, but still have room to party in back! Woodside, Braes Terrace, and Knollwood Village hook into the bottom of the Loop, between Stella Link and South Main.
Location: 8714 Bevlyn Dr.
Details: 3 bedrooms, 2 baths; 2,955 sq. ft.
Price: $329,900
The Scoop: Expansive 1953 brick ranch in Braes Terrace. Featured here back in August, for $55K more, before all that beautiful wood paneling was painted over. Game Room, Study; Sunroom leads to backyard deck and pool with changing rooms and half bath. Just relisted.
Open House: Sunday, 2-4 pm
More dressed ranches this way . . .
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Read more about: 77025, Braes-Terrace, Homes for Sale, Knollwood Village, Open Houses, Tours, Woodside
February 12, 2008 – 12:50 pm
Nineteenth-century British architect John Nash is apparently staging some sort of comeback in Gramercy Park. Here’s some of the marketing copy for the Belgravia, a 44-unit midrise condo building planned for Bellefontaine St., just west of Stella Link:
Following the traditions of neo-classical design, by one of Englands greatest architects John Nash, The Belgravia takes us to one of the most exciting times of British innovation where the most remarkable landmarks were sought, built, and admired.
The planning commission recently approved Sunhill Development’s replat of the property, over some vocal neighborhood opposition.
After the jump, more pics of the former British Empire’s Braeswood Place outpost!
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Read more about: 77025, Braeswood Place, Condos, Gramercy Park, Neighborhood Disputes, Proposed Developments, Real Estate Marketing
October 29, 2007 – 11:07 am
A permit was issued late last week. And so sitework begins for the 119-unit, 168,398-square-foot Belle Meade at River Oaks, on Westheimer between Ferndale and Sackett, developed by Grayco Partners:
The project is a 6-story epicore (light steel) construction on top of a 2-story podium garage. The boutique building will resemble the look of turn of the century, old New York hotels in brick with cast stone details, while spacious interiors will include such amenities as hardwood floors, 10-foot ceilings, granite countertops, stainless steel appliances and individual wine chillers. Community amenities will include conditioned interior corridors, heated pool, fitness facility, business center and a resident recreation room.
Grayco is also developing Museum Place, at Fannin and Oakdale in Midtown—a “contemporary design” also on a two-story podium. And Braeswood Place, on North Braeswood just east of Stella Link: the more usual four-story stick apartments hugging a parking garage, but it’ll also include 21 townhouses. It’s meant to look like Rice. All three properties will be managed by Camden Property Trust.
Read more about: 77004, 77025, Apartments, Midtown, Museum-District, New Construction, New Construction: Residential, Parking, River Oaks, Texas Medical Center, Townhomes
September 14, 2007 – 7:57 am
Another motel will be torn down, plus some demolition work at the Houston Zoo. Read our daily demo address list—after the jump.
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Read more about: 77007, 77013, 77022, 77025, 77026, 77029, 77030, 77096, Daily Demolition Report, Demolitions
September 13, 2007 – 8:45 am
More structures at the Holiday House Motel come down, along with a Holiday Inn cabana. Read the addresses in our daily list, which begins after the jump.
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Read more about: 77004, 77020, 77025, 77027, 77093, Daily Demolition Report, Demolitions
September 12, 2007 – 7:22 am
One of the last 1950s-era motels on South Main checks out. Plus: The Salon de Bouté gets cut. Our address list of daily demos begins after the jump.
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Read more about: 77008, 77019, 77020, 77025, Daily Demolition Report, Demolitions
September 11, 2007 – 8:02 am
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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Read more about: 77002, 77004, 77007, 77011, 77018, 77023, 77025, 77026, 77027, 77028, 77056, 77079, 77080, 77098, Daily Demolition Report, Demolitions
September 4, 2007 – 9:07 am
More industrial buildings along Studemont come down. See the addresses where the carnage continues—after the jump.
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Read more about: 77002, 77006, 77007, 77008, 77018, 77025, 77026, 77043, 77056, 77088, 77093, Daily Demolition Report, Demolitions
August 31, 2007 – 7:52 am
Ten knock-em-down homes and one gotta-tear-it-out before you build-it-bigger museum, in today’s list of demolition permits. Addresses are listed after the jump.
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Read more about: 77003, 77004, 77008, 77025, 77056, Daily Demolition Report, Demolitions
August 29, 2007 – 10:36 am
If you’re looking for a home with plenty of wood paneling, you’re probably not going to do better than this fine 1953 concoction on Bevlyn Dr., just a few blocks south of Brays Bayou in Braes Terrace. Sure, it appears sedate from the street, but the interior walls comprise a small catalog of wood-paneling possibilities.
Minutes from the Medical Center and Rice University this classic mid-century home is located on a quiet tree-lined street. Large rooms with all formals, huge Family room that leads to a sun room and the wonderful pool.
The house is 3200 square feet, sits on an oversized lot, and is listed at $384,777. At the end of the agent’s description is the requisite disclaimer:
Per seller this home never flooded.
Of course it didn’t! Otherwise you’d be looking at water lines on all the wood walls.
After the jump, photos from inside, featuring: panels!
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Read more about: 77025, Braes-Terrace, Flooding, Homes for Sale, Interior-Design, Interiors, Wood Paneling
More homes around the city turn to dust. Plus a baker’s dozen demolitions in Greenview Manor—all after the jump.
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Read more about: 77005, 77006, 77008, 77019, 77025, 77032, 77055, 77075, Daily Demolition Report, Demolitions
An all-residential edition of the demo report begins after the jump.
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Read more about: 77007, 77008, 77012, 77025, 77027, 77055, 77057, Daily Demolition Report, Demolitions
Nine houses fail to please. Read today’s list of unappreciated structures—after the jump.
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Read more about: 77007, 77019, 77025, 77027, 77032, Daily Demolition Report, Demolitions
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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Read more about: 77004, 77018, 77025, 77030, 77032, 77033, 77098, Daily Demolition Report, Demolitions
On today’s knock-down docket: Portions of four businesses and six houses. Read ’em and weep—after the jump.
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Read more about: 77004, 77006, 77008, 77017, 77018, 77019, 77025, 77026, 77043, 77074, Daily Demolition Report, Demolitions, Oak-Forest, Sharpstown, Southern Oaks
A cold death for Flamingo Chill on Airline. That and more in our daily list of sunsetted structures, after the jump.
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Read more about: 77004, 77008, 77024, 77025, 77074, 77076, Daily Demolition Report, Demolitions
