Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The newer they are, the faster they go down.
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Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to bulldoze.
What’s that — up in the air, over Westmoreland and Spur 527? According to a reader, it’s the skeletal remnants of 3618 Burlington St.’s sideyard billboard, which has been coming down since some time late last week. The sign structure is shown on its last leg in the snapshot up top from Saturday morning (that’s out of 3 legs originally, as seen in the listing photo below that from the 2015 sale). Per the newest listing, the full interior and exterior blankout and makeover of the 3-story Westmoreland Historic District home should have finished up around last Friday.
- Previously on Swamplot:Â Freewayside Queen Anne Now Getting Whitewashed, Rearranged, Flipped for $2.4 Million in Westmoreland Historic District;Â This $1.8 Million Queen Anne Mansion on the Edge of Westmoreland and the Downtown Spur Comes with Its Own Pool and Billboard
Photos: Swamplot inbox (top), HAR (bottom)
Sign of Steel
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Some buildings are merely illusions, albeit very persistent ones.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Every house is a quotation from all its ancestors.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
After all, 1,400 square feet is so last century.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
This is the land where everything changes.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
You always lose by holding back, so let these go at full force.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Today’s finishes are tomorrow’s rubble.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Demolition is the only truth that sticks.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
So let it be permitted, so let it be done for.
The brutal Sunday scene at the former New Hope Missionary Baptist Church was caught by a reader on Goliad St. in First Ward this weekend.  The 1940s structure is making way for new CitySide townhomes; 3 lots in the new 7-way split will face Goliad, while the other 4 keep watch on Crockett St. Here’s a look from Crockett at building’s insides spilling out under the guiding influence of that excavator, and of the corner tower’s last stand:
Last Stand in First Ward
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
A lonely cottage will soon give way to several townhomes. In the meantime, heed the agent’s advice and enjoy that extra deep lot.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
These were loved, and now set free.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Cozy and charming and brought down to the ground.
