Old Street Grid Near Pinemont Dr. And Antoine Dr.

[Purdueenginerd]

I was exploring on some hold topgraphic maps and I found a street grid/neighborhood in a 1915 map that was drastically different than today. 

 

The neighborhood/town/grid was on City Maps until the 1940's, and then it just disappeared. When aerial photography starts showing up in the 1950s. You can see remains of the street grids still there, clearly abandoned with very little buildings in the area. This condition remains until the 1960's when most of the area was redeveloped with a new street pattern. Pinemont and Antoine appear to be consistent in the area. The modern aerial photography you can see SOME remnants of the original street grid in the area North of Pinemont.(Rena St, Grovehill St, Highrock St, etc.). And you can see some clear dileneation of property lines that matched the original grids. 

So my question is, what was this neighborhood/town? Was this some small texas down that Houston swallowed up in the 1930's/40s? Why were the streets abandoned? etc. 

Anyway, I've provided a link with some maps and photos, sorry about the waterseals 

 

http://imgur.com/a/5uML4

 

thoughts?
 

[gnu]

Looks like the street grid is from the original plat for Rosslyn.  You can see the old block book pages here:

I glanced through them quickly but it looks like Rosslyn starts at page 163 through 221

 

First jpg in series: http://books.tax.hctx.net/v030/AE1997_30_0191.jpg

Last jpg in series: http://books.tax.hctx.net/v030/AE1997_30_0246.jpg

 

As you mentioned some of the street grid is still extant and some of the original grid is still in the current block books even if the streets are not there.

This seems to be primarily in the area along Bingle between 290 and Tidwell where there are a lot of original property lines.

 

In the old block books, you can see the original street names and the current street names etc.

Orange is now Castlebay

11th is now Lumberton

Evergreen is Tidwell

13th is Bingle

etc.....

 

Not sure why the streets were abandoned except to speculate that often, a street grid is platted but it never seems to take hold.

Looking at the aerial from 1944, it looks pretty much abandoned even then.  Maybe farmers consolidated the lots and used them for growing?

According to the Handbook of Texas, Rosslyn had already lost its Post Office by 1917.

 

 

 

[Purdueenginerd]

This is excellent, I really appreciate it!