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  1. sixthwardguy
    This is the same house that you posted earlier in the day, it was remodeled in 1890 by George Dickey to take on a significant Victorian appearance.
  2. sixthwardguy
    That was the former William Read residence (of Inman & Read Cotton Merchants). Built in the 1890's and sold to the Cullinans in the teens. Lived there for less than a decade until they built their permanent house at 2 Remington Lane in Shadyside.
  3. sixthwardguy
    One of the 15 four-room houses on Sutton Street that Mr Herman built was relocated in the 1990's to the NW corner of Sabine and Lubbock Sts where it still stands today.
  4. sixthwardguy
    That house was actually at 2210 Main St, on the corner of Hadley. The footprint shown on the 1924 Sanborn FIre Insurance Map matches the one seen in the photograph.
  5. sixthwardguy
    At first, I thought this was the Scanlan Mansion on Scanlan Road, located behind the Sienna Plantation subdivsion in Missouri City, since it resembles the one in the photographs in many ways, including the fountain. After closer inspection, I realized that the Scanlan Mansion is smaller than the one in the photograph, it has fewer columns across the front and does not have a long wing in the back, along with a swimming pool instead of the fountain pool shown in the photograph. The Scanlan Mansion can only be seen via birds eye maps due to its set-back from the road.
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    The Second Empire style never really took off in Houston, and there were only two or three examples that were built in Houston that I could think of. They were all built on Main Street downtown and were already gone by the 1930's. I read somewhere that the Second Empire style was identified with the North and Houstonians during the late 19th century still harbored a grudge against the north for winning the War Between the States, and refused to build anything with a style that indentified with the North.
  7. sixthwardguy
    I happen to work at MD Anderson.
  8. sixthwardguy
    From what I understand, both MD Anderson and a museum in New Mexico finally found a donor who is willing to pay to have the mural removed and delivered to the museum in a single piece. Specially trained workers arrived at the building several weeks ago to detach the mural from the ceiling and floor, and encapsulate the entire mural in a gigantic crate that is 20 ft tall and 50 ft wide. The entire front doorway, vestibule, and porte cohere will have to be dismantled to make way for the crate. They will have to go down to the basement to reinforce the floor underneath the lobby to support the load of the crate as it departs the building. A crane will be brought to lift the crate onto a specially commissioned tractor trailer. The trailer will transport the mural to New Mexico with a convoy of bucket trucks to raise any obstructing power lines between here and there. Once the mural has been removed, the demolition of the building will begin immediately.
  9. sixthwardguy
    I found a better photo of the house from the Life Magazine photo archives. It wasn't labeled with the McCarthy name but I remembered the photo from the magazine article.
  10. sixthwardguy
    I just remembered to look at HistoricAerials.com and found that there weren't any structures on that location in the 1957 and 1964 aerial maps. It wasn't until the 1973 map that showed a new bridge and driveway in the immediate area. That may bolster the theory that the house was built with salvaged historic materials, or perhaps brought in pieces from various places. My preservationist friend who saw the house up close said it had a large chimney that went up through the center of the house. All early/true examples of that house style (Gulf Coast Cottage/Colonial) featured a central hallway (dog-trot) that ran all the way from the front to the back, and this house didn't have that.
  11. sixthwardguy
    Three years ago a preservationist friend of mine actually went up to the door of the house and knocked on it. He said that up close the house looked like a hodgepodge of old and new architecture. A gentleman answered the door and clearly wasn't pleased. My friend asked for information about the house and the guy was noncommittal but would only volunteer that it was used as a hunting lodge for a large corporation back in the 60s and 70's, and that it was built with parts salvaged from houses in the Bear Creek area that had been dismantled to make way for the Addicks Reservoir.
  12. sixthwardguy
    I remember reading an article in an older magazine somewhere many years ago that prominently featured a photograph of the McCarthy family sitting in front of their house. I believe the article was published around the time of the opening of the Shamrock Hotel. I wish I could remember the name of the magazine, I would love to see the photograph again.
  13. sixthwardguy
    I do recall the photos showing thick fluted pilasters on each side of the doorway but cannot remember seeing an arch on top for the pilasters went up pretty much all the way to the faux balcony above. There were potted topiaries on both sides of the front door, giving the house a distinct "Hollywood Regency" look. I also remember seeing dark-colored shutters on the first floor windows but not if the 2nd floor windows had them. What I thought was interesting was that the house prominently displayed a railing matching the fake balcony along the roof ridge between the chimneys. There is another house nearby that still has the faux balcony similar to this house but I cannot recall its exact location.
  14. sixthwardguy
    There's a thread about this house in the Historic Houston category of this forum: http://www.houstonarchitecture.info/haif/i...showtopic=13756
  15. sixthwardguy
    After the 1964 World's Fair ended, the Formica House was dismantled and rebuilt on Townsend Drive in Middletown, New Jersey. I went to school with one of the daughters of the family that bought the house directly from the builder and have been inside it several times. The owners, who still own the house today, have maintained the original circa 1964 kitchen appliances, light fixtures, and of course, the formica walls. They even hired the original architect of the house to design a 2-car garage to 'complete' the house. The house, now 43 years old, still looks new with its formica exterior walls.
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