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  1. Weird. So this thread with my 2006 post seems to be disconnected from another thread. I am not sure where that thread is, but there is not much info in this little two post thread. I found this thread, that will give context to the posts above about the Scanlan House or Mansion in Sienna. https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/topic/38662-thomas-scanlan-mansion-at-1917-main-st/ BTW, the title of the thread in the link above is confusing should not be 1917 main st. That was the address of the Scanlan mansion in Houston and that thread does not discuss anything about it specifically. Just to clarify: The Scanlan Mansion (a very Victorian looking house) was at 1917 Main (1891-1937) and after a disagreement with the city, the Scanlan sisters had the house disassembled and built into a new structure (New Colonial?) on their land in Sienna (evidently now 714 Scanlan Rd) - and now demolished (1937-2017). Links in the other thread detail this.
  2. The original Friendswood School Building is the narrow one facing W. Spreading Oaks. The Museum is in part of it. I believe the one marked AA Gymnastics Academy is a gym. The Junior High has moved and this campus is no longer an active school.
  3. The Taylor School was at 1500 Louisiana (later to become Enron South). It appears it was a vocational school. Thus the likely address for the above proposed administration building would have been 1500 Smith (the hypothetical block bounded by Smith, Bell, Leland, & Brazos). Smith ended up being the only street mentioned in the article that was pushed through (and Allen Center was eventually built where the Bagby and Brazos right of ways would have been). According to city directories, the administration was split between a building at 1600 Washington (business office) and the building at 1500 Louisiana (sharing the building with the vocational school) until 1955. Then it consolidated operations and moved into the old Sam Houston High School at 1300 Capitol (currently the site of HSPVA) until the Taj Majal was built on Richmond.
  4. https://www.timbergrove.org/news/local-abandoned-graveyard-offers-residents-a-look-back-at-timbergrove-manor-history
  5. My memory isn't what it used to be either, but I think we sort of agreed it was just a development that never really came to fruition - other than the platting
  6. Oh you mean here? 🙂 https://www.houstonarchitecture.com/haif/topic/4512-brunsville-old-subdivision-near-the-ship-channel/#comment-61973
  7. Before the early sixties, Lockwood through the Eastwood area was called Maplewood. The bowling alley could have been on that street. I know there was a Maplewood Pharmacy at Harrisburg and Maplewood (Lockwood)
  8. An example in Pearland https://www.google.com/maps/@29.562643,-95.2836617,177m/data=!3m1!1e3
  9. Ah. I always ignored these because I thought it was for analog conversion only. I may have to check one of these out.
  10. What I want to know about is a DVR that can record OTA and output to my digital tv. I have found several options over the years but none have made me interested enough to purchase
  11. This is the Carter Building. Currently the Marriot at Main and Rusk
  12. This is the 1883 Courthouse. It was demolished and replaced in 1910.
  13. https://goo.gl/maps/SZnkXXZxatA9bbWL8 1702 Washington
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