Mosbacher House 405 W. Friar Tuck Ln. year built: 1962 architect/designer: John Staub location: Sherwood Forest status: Demolished 02/2009

Howard Barnstone's The Architecture of John F. Staub: Houston and the South states:

The style of the Mosbacher house is best described as as a cross between an American Georgian house and a Louisiana plantation house. The shuttered windows and shingled dormers recall the former, the slender brick piers and colonnades the latter. Staub introduced an irregularly spaced rear colonnade and Chippendale-like woodwork in lieu of conventional balusters. The colonnade, once carried along the entire rear elevation of the house, has since been abruptly terminated by the addition of an enclosed sitting room. In the front, Staub sought to vary the symmetry of the principal mass by placing the main entrance one bay off-center.

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