Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Seven properties swiftly ushered to a state of nonexistence.
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Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Time to break the do-nuts.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Let’s kick the week off by kicking these off:
Today is teardown day at Andrew Schneck’s neighbor’s house, pictured above at 2021 Albans Rd. Schneck, a resident of 2025 Albans, was sentenced to 6 and a half years in prison last month after admitting he tried to blow up the marble statue of Dick Dowling in Hermann Park using homemade explosives he stored in his Southampton house. During the federal raid of his house last year, members of the surrounding neighborhood — including those next door — were evacuated so that FBI and ATF officials could dispose of the “significant amount of material” they found inside through “controlled detonations” — which they warned could potentially cause damage to nearby structures. A blue tent set up on Schneck’s lawn — just off camera to the right — functioned as their staging area.
- Previously on Swamplot: A Southampton Blowup Over the Statue of Dick Dowling in Hermann Park
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Albans Smashup
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Where it all comes apart — unhinged and unglued:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Here’s what we’re leaving behind:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
A slow, easy mark.
Note: This story has been updated.
Parts left over from the metal barn that Black Page Brewing leased out beside White Oak Bayou out a few years back are now lying in a heap next to a wooden skeleton that’s taken the demolished structure’s place. The deconstruction began last month according to neighbors who called 311 on August 31 to report that it was happening, potentially, they said, without the required permits. An inspector showed up the next day to check things out, one of several field trips the city would make to the planned brewpub’s digs at the end of Glen Park St. over the next few weeks in response to multiple follow-up calls from nearby residents.
By the time a demo permit did show up last Friday, the site had already been tagged twice by city officials: first for the premature teardown, and once again — as shown below — for additional unpermitted work:
Near Northside
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Sundry takings from South Post Oak — and beyond:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Try to remember the end of September: these demolitions and all that will follow.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
A golf course, 3 churches, a brewery, and 2 homes:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
These have been claimed:
A Swamplot reader sends this photo of an excavator limbering up before the main event at 1638 Bonnie Brae St. Sandcastle Homes bought the nearly 90-year-old building in July and filed plans to build a new house on the property last month. It’s nestled within the Montrose sub-neighborhood known as Castle Court, a few doors down from Dunlavy St.
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Castle Court Crackup
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
This row of houses, plus some follow-on clearance at UOS:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
They’re making more of it:
