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BenH

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  1. Look what's going up on 3632 Inverness: http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r85/zoomanderson/DSC_0002.jpg http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r85/zoomanderson/DSC_0003.jpg
  2. http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r85/zoomanderson/DSC_0065copy.jpg http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r85/zoomanderson/DSC_0067copy.jpg HCAD lists this house on Crabb Orchard Rd. as belonging to Mrs. Walter P. Moore Sr. in the 80's. (Google the name Walter P. Moore if you don't recognize it.) Once again the architect is unknown, but it looks like something Wilson, Morris, Crain & Anderson would do. Note the large canopy in the back. In covers an indoor swimming pool, which is visible from MSN Live maps. Saw a port-o-can in the driveway this morning, so that means rennovation or restoration. I'd love to see inside.
  3. I've shot some over there, but have been noticed nearly every time. Haven't gotten any of the Bailey Swenson houses yet, and I would love to get John S. Chase's house as well. He's still alive, from what I've heard. Find out who the architects daughter was and I'll see if the house fits into my timeframe.
  4. This house has been undergoing an extremely slow rennovation/restoration. It's located in Riverside Terrace on MacGregor Way overlooking the Bayou.
  5. No wonder. I just got a D50. Freakin' lovely. Especially compared to the N6006 I was using.
  6. What kind of camera are you shooting with?
  7. Here's 407 Westminster, next to the Frame House.
  8. Now that I think about it, that does look 80's, with some elements from Sea Ranch in it.
  9. I know the place and was wondering the same thing. I thought it was a dark blue though...
  10. If you've lived in Houston for any real length of time, you've probably seen or at least driven by this house. It's on Chimney Rock, just past Memorial Drive: http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r85/zoomanderson/House-On-Chimney-Rock.jpg So who designed it?
  11. The Chronicle was wrong. It's not a Kamrath house. The group sponsering the tour said that it was Kamrath-Inspired. Doesn't really look like something they'd do either.
  12. What do y'all know about him? I haven't been able to find any information about him at all...accept for the houses he did in River Oaks.
  13. Right. I figured that out about ten minutes after I made the original post. Felt like a doofus. Anyways, turns out Bolton's offices are no longer in the Kamrath building. I went by there today to see about setting up an interview with him or finding a company brochure or anything really.
  14. Wow, that's really cool. I thought he had passed away, but his firm is still active (in Mackie & Kamrath's former offices, no less.) Mr. Bolton needs a web site.
  15. The University of Houston's Architecture Library Special Collections has the original photos of the house commissioned by Barnstone. I saw them yesterday. Fred Winchell was the photographer, and the house was incredible in it's original condition.
  16. RDA Mackie & Kamrath tour listed this one as "Kamrath-inspired". Does anyone know who designed it?
  17. Drove by there today. None of you really want to see what's up now...if you were to look up the definition of "McMansion"... Interestingly enough, it's easy to find, as the original mailbox and front walls are still there and seem to have been incorporated into the landscaping.
  18. I would imagine it's a restoration. That's been going on for quite a while.
  19. The house at 54 Briar Hollow Ln. is completely gone. Demolition looks to be recent, and luxury condos seem to be pending. 65 Briar Hollow is still there, as is an unidentified mod across the court.
  20. Marty is very right on this one. Case in point is the Frank Lloyd Wright house in Memorial. It doesn't look a thing like the guide photo, and by that time the house had probably been restored. Another, really annoying thing that will hold up documentation is the infamous "Private Street" sign. These are popping up more and more throughout the city, (although I can't see how it's possible without a guardhouse and gate). If we're going to do this kind of a project, we need to work with homeowner's and neighborhood associatations and basically be patient. There are tons of mods in gated neighborhoods (see the one on memorial across the bayou from the Mayo Hill school of modeling, also not in the guide), and we need to get into those places, if possible. Anyone you know, any connections you have, start asking questions, especially older folks who've lived in Houston a good long while. They may have alot of information, or they may know someone who does.
  21. Two friends of mine rent the big mod at the end of River Glyn (the one on the left, as you drive into the circle) and I've stayed in the house during a college retreat. Very cool, elegant place with dark brown wood everywhere, shelves built into the walls and in the garage, etc. Everything upscale mod. That's another house, along with the one across the street, that doesn't appear in the guide.
  22. That sounds like something that needs to be happening. My project is for a photography class but I'm normally a writer. Ideally, it would begin with Wright's Thaxton House, the houses in Riverbend and Memorial Bend, and McKie and Kamrath's work. I live in the same house as one of my chief sources. My father worked for Kamrath, Wilson, Morris, Crain & Anderson, Barnstone while he was rennovating some the Staub houses in River Oaks, moonlighted for Clovis Heimsath (sp?) in college, amongst others. He also delineated a bit for Skidmore and his mentor was Ralph Anderson, Jr. Basically, he was right in the middle of everything this board finds cool about Houston, so I've got good places to start. I wasn't being critical with that comment about the guide. Every organization has politics. But there is likely another factor we're over- looking about inclusion: the current owners won't allow it. This house in Tanglewood couldn't have been simply overlooked, it's too weird for that. A friend of mine (he was a home builder for 25 years) apparently knows the owner and says they were "characters", or at least the man of the house was. How many more people like that are there? I would venture quite a few wealthy people don't want architecture buffs walking by, parking in front of, or taking pictures of their homes. A man I met over at Kamrath's Memorial Drive Church who was from Chicago who said that the folks in Oak Park have a terrible time with people knocking on their doors or trespassing because they don't know that many of the Wright houses there are privately owned. There may be (as we have found since this post began) a major lack of documentation. Does anyone know what architects were actively building homes in Tanglewood from 1950 to 1965? Apparently Cook acquired the house in the eighties and the current owner acquired it in 2003.
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