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Weekend Open House Tour: North Edgemont and Vassar Place
The northerly stretches of Boulevard Oaks, where the call of the Southwest Freeway is clear and constant! Four lovely homes await your visit: Location: 1336 Vassar St. Details: 3 bedrooms, 2 baths;...
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Weekend Open House Tour: Oakwood Forest and Candlelight Forest West
If you want to see all the cool new homes on this weekend’s AIA Home Tour, it’s gonna cost you. If you want to go on the Old Sixth Ward Victorian Home Tour this weekend, it’ll cost you. But if you just...
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Weekend Open House Tour: New Territory
In this episode: four decade-old houses in New Territory, all within walking distance of . . . each other! Each home has distinctive touches! And they’re all open for your visit this weekend! Location:...
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Weekend Open House Tour: Westchester and Nottingham Forest
It’s the final weekend before Election Day, which means you might want to use some of your open-house time for a bit of last-minute canvassing. And what better neighborhoods to do either in than two of...
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Weekend Open House Tour: Greenbriar and Ormond Place
Not quite Southampton, not quite Shepherd Square: It’s time to venture south of 59 for this weekend’s tour — of Greenbriar and nearby Ormond Place: Location: 2348 Bartlett St. Details: 2 bedrooms, 2...
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Comment of the Day: That’s My House You’re Guessing About
“What a hoot! CiCi and I have really enjoyed reading all of the comments. Especially about the “fuddy duddy” furniture and balding grandpa. We chose this house because it was so original. It’s our...
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What the Last Century Built: Idylwood Modern, in Concrete
This house on Merry Lane in Idylwood is one of 4 “Century Built” homes designed in the late 1940s and early ’50s by a not-particularly-famous Houston architect named Allen R. Williams Jr. Where are...
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An East End Century Built Home Fixed Up for a Different Century
Here’s another “Century Built” hollow-concrete-tile home designed by Allen R. Williams Jr. This 1954 model is at 6328 Brookside Dr. in Simms Woods. Interior designer and recently minted architect Ben...
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Wright Style: A Long View in Sugar Creek
This low-slung sorta Usonian-style home mounted between the Sugar Creek and Riverbend country clubs in Sugar Land was built in 1975 by and for Houston builder H.A. Lott, known for his work...
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A Meadowcreek Village Help-You-Sell
“SELLER WILL DO NO REPAIRS,” shouts the listing. But . . . um, visitors to this past Sunday’s open house did bring their own period furniture to dress up a brick flat-roofed Modern 4-bedroom in...
View ArticleComment of the Day Runner-Up: Y’all Come By Now, Y’hear?
“I am thankful for Ben’s research and for putting me in touch with Robert who had the right buyer for my Dad’s house. I have always loved this house and have great memories here. It’s where I learned...
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A Serene Meyerland Scene in Shades of Peaches and Cream
A sheered-up 1968 Modern home in Meyerland relies on its unadorned clerestory windows for natural light to play across the lighter shades of pale finishes found in many of the decoratively restrained...
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A Low-Slung, Low-Key Mod in Lake Jackson
To see the Mods of the Month this time, you’ll have to head out to Lake Jackson. One of the 3 featured homes has already gone Option Pending, but this one, a few miles off the Nolan Ryan Expressway at...
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