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2119 Washington Ave.

• year built: 1954
• architect/designer:
• location: Sixth Ward
• status: abandoned

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1950s, 77007, commercial, endangered commercial, Sixth Ward

S. Shepherd at W. Gray

• year built: 2008/2009
• architect/designer:
• location: River Oaks
• status: redeveloped

Quite the disappointing rebuild from Weingarten - lack of harmony with the rest of the center (material and color mainly), and its entry in to the book of overused, bland suburban-style strip malls.

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Postcard of original shopping center and rendering of rebuild:

Letter from the City of Houston Planning Department regarding replatting for garage, and picture of garage construction:

New section of the River Oaks Shopping Center:

River Oaks Shopping Center demolition - September 2007:

2000+, 77019, commercial, redeveloped commercial, redeveloped

5311 Danfield Dr.

• year built: 1977
• architect/designer:
• location: Briarwick
• status: extant

As far as I know, my parents were the first owners of this home. This was also the first home I lived in. It isn’t in the worst shape now, but the neighboring home’s condition is terrible and the neighborhood looks mostly uncared for and in general decline. I have to hope (for my parents’ judgment’s sake) that back in the day, this area near S Post Oak and the beltway wasn’t full of trashy strip malls, self-storage facilities turned flea markets, and listless homeowners.

And the houses - many look stamped out from some catalog where front-facing, obtrusive garages were the in thing to do. Also, while this house only has bars on the front door, I’d guess that some time ago the burglar bar trend (much like the reminders in places like Glenbrook Valley) swept through here - maybe more recently than I think.

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And the neighboring home:

1970s, 77053, in use, residential Briarwick, in use, residential

9606 Meadowglen Ln.

• year built: 1958
• architect/designer: Harwood Taylor
• location: Tanglewilde
• status: extant

From Houston Mod:

Harwood Taylor built this house for himself in 1958 as part of a residential building program sponsored by Living For Young Homemakers Magazine together with local utility companies as part of the Electri-Living Program. Each of 12 houses was given a budget of $18,000 (exclusive of the property costs). The program had three guidelines: to satisfy the emotional and special needs of an average young couple with two to four children, to accommodate the full electrical load of household appliances now on the market with allowances for additional equipment in the future, and to be adaptable to the builder house market. It was was awarded first prize at the conclusion of the Electri-Living program.

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1950s, 77063, Harwood Taylor, in use, residential in use, residential, Tanglewilde

• year built:
• architect/designer: Burdette Keeland
• location: southwest Houston
• status:

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Burdette Keeland, residential residential