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Tag: Demolitions
Pardon us as we air the city out just a little bit.
Courtesy of a Swamplot reader who spied the wreckage, we now have photo confirmation that the recently renovated former home of Astrodome builder H.A. Lott, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright devotee Karl Kamrath in 1975, is currently being smashed to pieces. That’s the steel frame of the north end of the house being mangled above. And we have a video, too! Not of the demolition — but of the sleek-looking home itself last year, when it was on the market for just over a million bucks. Treacly but ultimately ineffective soundtrack included:
Take a break with the houses while we work these over:
Yes, it looks like demo equipment has already arrived in the driveway of the MacKie and Kamrath house in Sugar Creek featured a little less than a year ago on Swamplot. The home was originally built in 1975 for Astrodome builder H.A. Lott, in the Houston architects’ famed signature Frank-Lloyd-Wright-without-the-cape style. The photo above was sent in by a reader, who passes on a rumor from neighbors — that the 4,426-sq.-ft. home’s new owners plan on tearing down the structure and putting up a 2-story something in its place. After an extensive renovation, the the 4-bedroom on a 36,041-sq.-ft. waterfront lot was listed for north of $1 million last August. It sold in April for around $800K. A few pics of what now appears to be headed for the landfill:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Lie down and sleep, beauties:
Some large-scale leveling going on near Frenchy’s:
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A fistful of housing castoffs in today’s report:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Ah . . . Wakefield when it’s over:
That patio over there? The one without the shade? That’s coming down . . .
Remember those walls I built? Well, baby, they’re tumbling down, and they didn’t even put up a fight. They didn’t even make a sound.
