We’ll have these properties suited up in their new gone clothes in a jiffy:
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Tag: Demolitions
A collection of buildings on Kirby Dr. get ready to go down. We also let loose on a couple schools.
We now pause for a measure of Midtown mansion removal, before resuming our regularly scheduled program.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
There is comfort in the joint exit. Let’s hold hands and go.
A demolition permit has been filed for 2 Longbow Ln., a Buffalo Bayou-side 1956 Mid Century Modern home designed by Astrodome architects Wilson, Morris, Crain, & Anderson for renowned internist Dr. Mavis Kelsey, founder of the Kelsey-Seybold Clinic.
Kelsey died at 101 in November of 2013. The home and 4 acre lot in Circle Bluff — a warren of streets with Robin Hood-themed names just outside the West Loop, east of Chimney Rock Rd., south of Memorial Dr. — went on the market in late May, and after a little under 2 months, sold for $6.9 million. The buyer is listed as David M. Weekley, chairman of David Weekley Homes.
Snapping The Longbow
Racking up new high scores today, with a multi-million-dollar munch and more:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday city offices were open.
It’s not the end of an era. It’s just the end of their era.
Now is the season for acknowledging how much we appreciate all the wonderful buildings we have. Except, of course, for these ones:
Demos appear to be ready to commence on a good-sized swath of Independence Heights surrounding Booker T. Washington High School at 119 East 39th St.
“Seems everything between Yale and Main is about to be bulldozed… an entire neighborhood vanishing,” writes a reader. “It’s really kinda spooky looking — like an abandoned ghost town”:
Independence Heights
