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  1. Edwin Parker was a partner in a law firm a long with James A. Baker, and Baker Botts in the firm Baker, Botts, Parker, & Garwood Built in January 23, 1910 by architects Sanguinet & Staats. Once built, it became ownership of C.R. Wharton, an employee of the company. The house was located at 803 Hadley Street in Midtown.
  2. The architecture firm Jones & Tabor Architects designed the residence of W.A. Burkett that was built in the historic neighborhood Avondale. The building was constructed in January 9, 1910. Awesome looking house! Can't exactly tell what's behind, or on top, of the house. I know there are some historians on HAIF. Does anyone know the exact address?
  3. Drove down South Wynden Drive today to look around the surrounding neighborhood. Found a few old ranch houses that don't fit the neighborhood. One home at 32 South Wynden sits on a massive lot! This is (or was?) being marketed for sale by Martha Turner Sotheby's International Realty. Unrestricted lot - Residential * Commercial. Lot Size: 40,812 Sq Ft. Photo I took today:
  4. In 1907, The Franklin House was located at 1407 Frankliin Avenue and featured first-class furnished rooms by the day, week, or month. The boarding house offered both hot and cold baths Proprietor was Miss Harriett Mae.
  5. Just discovered Max Wesheimer's home in a newspaper article. Max was once of M.L. Westheimer's nephews. I looked on Google Maps and 1400 Chenevert is now a surface lot. I wonder how big his house was? From the newspaper The Jewish Herald-Voice dated September 22, 1938. Westheimer - Mr. and Mrs. Max and nephew, Mr. Joseph J. Eisemann, 1400 Chenevert, extend best wishes to all their friends and relatives for a Happy and Prosperous New Year.
  6. I was reading the newspaper The Bellaire Citizen dated May 25, 1950 and came across one of the famous Meyers residential address! Sadly, this doesn't look like a mansion. Located in the area of West University/Rice Village, it was a typical home. I believe Frank Meyer built his mansion a few decades later at 9111 South Post Oak Road. Tried to look for an old aerial view of the home but there's too many trees blocking it! I believe the original house is still there? Seniors Mark Time 'Til Graduation With Parties Parties for girl graduates-to-be continue as commencement day draws closer-- Mrs. Frank S. Meyer honored their daughters Gloria Meyer and Frances Berryman, with a tea Saturday afternoon at the Meyer home, 2336 Bolsover.
  7. I'm not sure of this person's first name. Any help here? I read F. A. Heitman was a local hardware tycoon. The house was designed by none other William Ward Watkin. Such a beautiful home, that was since demolished.
  8. wow! So that's who designed and owned that infamous mansion in the Museum District. I never knew it was one of Maurice Sullivan's homes. Very cool! Does anyone know about this house? Must have been built in the 1920s?
  9. wow! Found an unknown residence of Mr. Joseph Finger. Looks like it's sandwiched in between the Museum District and Montrose located at 801 Portland Street, Colby Court. I wonder if he designed the home himself? Any pictures? From the newspaper The Texas Jewish Herald dated March 24, 1927. Hadassah Silver Tea A silver tea for the benefit of Hadasah will be given at the home of Mrs. Joseph Finger, 801 Portland, Colby Court, on Wednesday afternoon, April 6, from 3 to 5 o'clock. A cordial invitation is extended the public.
  10. Came across this 1959/1960 photo of a barren area of the southwest freeway construction. Looking outbound toward Post Oak Blvd. at Westpark Dr. In one parcel of land, located off McCue Road, there is a mansion all by itself. Does anyone know whose house this was?
  11. wow!! Look at this beautiful mansion! I wonder the architect and address? Residence of Judge Sam Streetman
  12. wow!! Look at this beautiful mansion! I wonder the architect and address? Residence of W.T. Carter 1908 Geo. Beach
  13. In the Texas State Journal of Medicine, Volume 44, Number 3, July 1948 there is a listing for a (now) demolished house in River Oaks. Greenwood, Mrs. James R., 3394 Chevy Chase (6). 2006 view, surrounded by trees!! 2014, new mansion took its place: I would call it a McMansion, but this home in RO is anything but cheap. Love that circular pool!
  14. Came across WW Watkin's house the other day. Very cool! There was actually a remodel done which made a huge different. Original, 1915: Remodel, 1945: Pictured with William Ward Watkin
  15. Another Alfred C. Finn design! I searched around HAIF and couldn't find any information so I thought I would share. James Autry House located at 5 Courtlandt Place
  16. Found a James Greenwood, Jr. curriculum vitae that lists his residence in River Oaks. I believe the home was demolished and a new mansion took its place. Tried searching on Google Earth but there's too many trees on the parcel to find the house. I never knew Jas. Greenwood, Jr. was included in all of the Texas Medical Center hospitals. He practically worked at every TMC hospital. Impressive resume! Although, I did notice the infamous Greenwood Sanitarium was not listed. I do know his father, James Greenwood, Sr. founded the sanitarium. I thought he worked at the sanitarium a long side his father? He was a doctor there. James Greenwood, Jr., M. D. 718 Hermann Professional Building Houston Texas 77025 NAME: James Greenwood, Jr., M. D. ADDRESS: 718 Hermann Professional Building, Houston, Texas 77025 RESIDENCE: 1839 Kirby, Houston, Texas 77019 DATE OF BIRTH: July 19, 1907, Seguin (Guadalupe County), Texas. MARITAL STATUS: Married. Father of six children. EDUCATION: Rice University, Houston, Texas, B. A., 1927. University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, M. D. , 1931. Internship and residency: Philadelphia General Hospital, 1931-35. (Two-year general internship, including seven months in neuropsychiatry, neurosurgery, and neuroophthaimology; Two-year residency in neurology and psychiatry, including charge of neurosurgical service.) Two and a half months in Philadelphia, 1939, neurosurgery and neuropathology with Dr. F. C. Grant and Dr. F. H. Lewey. Alpha Omega Alpha (honorary, medical school). LICENSED TO PRACTICE: Texas. SPECIALTY: Began practice September 1935 (Houston), neurology and neuro surgery; limited to neurosurgery exclusively since 1942. BOARD AFFILIATIONS: American Board of Neurological Surgery, 1941. American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, 1940. MEMBERSHIPS: American College of Surgeons (Fellow); American Medical Association; The American Association of Neurological Surgeons (formerly The Harvey Cushing Society); American Academy of Neurological Surgeons; Southern Neurosurgical Society (V, President 1951, President 1960-1); Texas Surgical Society (2nd V. President 1946, Member of Council 1960-64, President 1964) ; Texas State Medical Association; Texas Neuropsychiatric Society (President 1941); Southwestern Surgical Society (Founder Member); Houston Surgical Society (President 1962); Houston Neurological. HOSPITAL APPOINTMENTS: Methodist Hospital (president-elect of Staff 1941 and President 1942; president-elect of Staff 1955-56 and President 1957-58; Chairman, Division of Neurosurgery 1936 to present). Consulting neurosurgeon Hermann Hospital (Chairman Emeritus Division of Neurosurgery); St. Luke's Hospital, Texas Children's Hospital, St. Joseph Hospital, Ben Taub Hospital City-County; Veterans' Administration Hospital, M. D. Anderson Hospital for Cancer Research. Formerly consultant Southern Pacific Hospital and Hospital Association Missouri Pacific Lines. Courtesy Staff: Memorial Baptist Hospital and St. Anthony Center.
  17. I've been noticing this cool-shaped development for a year. Thought I would create a thread to see if anyone knows what this is, or was. Located on Old Main Street Road and South Braeswood Blvd. Looking on present-day imagery, it's located on the vacant parcel on Fannin Street & S. Braeswood. Where the proposed Medical Village development by Slosburg is. Appears to be 4 homes on both sides of the street, and a big mansion further down the street at the end of the road. I love the cool shape, or cut out, of the development. Love those long drive ways! Google Earth aerial from 1944: I noticed the cool shaped parcel on a few old aerial photographs. I cropped the image to include the residential parcel only. Here's the mansion at the end:
  18. Apparently, this 1930s residential home was designed by Joseph Finger. Cool! Joseph Finger was such an amazing architect. 7312 Main Boulevard Joseph Finger, 1931 Finger's office designed this trimly proportioned and detailed house is a French provincial vein; the asymmetric composition and steel casement windows are distinctive '30s attributes. I can't seem to find it on Google Earth. Unless if the wealthy person had a lot of extra land, and the home sat far back from the property line. Google Earth capture dated 1944:
  19. Cool looking house! I never even heard of the Sewell-Avery families. I wonder who those people are and what they did for a living? Must have been business owners or doctors/bankers to live in RO. Sewell-Avery House Address: 3456 Inwood Drive, River Oaks. Year Built: 1925. Architects: Cram and Ferguson and William Ward Watkin, associate architect.
  20. The original Baker house on 1416 Main Street. Built in April 1919. A little confused. Wasn't Capt. Baker's home (or family estate) on San Jacinto? There was also the Baker estate which MD Anderson moved into to start their hospital system. I wonder if these are different people? If not, Capt. James Baker was very, very wealthy! Cool house! Anyone know the architect? George Dickey?
  21. woah! Has anyone seem this amazing house on historic aerials or Google earth? Shame it was knocked down. From the neighborhood newsletter called The Old Braeswood News dated Summer 2010. The home would have been built in the 1950s, I believe 1954 to be exact. Short paragraph from the article detailing the 1954 home: Issac and Mildred, his wife, often visited friends in Old Braeswood, and lingered at the park with their sons, Branard and Raymond. In 1947, Ike bought a triple lot that spanned the back of the park, but did not build on it until 1951, about when Ray was entering Rice University as an undergraduate in architecture. Rice didn't have dorm capacity for students from Houston, and Ray moved into the house with his parents [Three years later, Ike's brother Samuel built a house at 2355 Kelving, the peninsular site bounded by Kelving and Glenn Haven. That site is now an empty lot.] 2004: 2023, present day:
  22. Found Doug Prince (of Prince's Hamburgers) residence! It was listed in an old newspaper about him and his hamburger empire. The newspaper article is dated August 15, 1947. Hamburger King Doug Prince Still Has Big Ideas That man who has been mistaken many times in Hollywood for Paul Whiteman, the king of jazz, is recognized in Houston as the king of another line of business- hamburger stands. He is Doug Prince, who as a book salesman in Dallas in the 1920's had no idea that he and his hamburgers would become internationally famous before the middle of the century. Mr. Prince and his wife reside at 7506 Main. George Douglas Prince was born in Waxahachie 41 years ago and attended high school in Dallas. After graduation he sold school books until he was 20, when he opened Prince's Hamburger Stand on Lemmon Avenue- The opening wedge of his successful career. “One year I was driving from Dallas to Galveston and drove down Main Street in Houston. That's when I decided to move my operations- Houston. I thought, had possibilities, and I wanted to be here.” A short time after his Galveston trip, Mr. Prince bought what was then Weber's Root Beer Stand at 4509 Main, near Sears, and-- Mr. and Mrs. Doug Prince Aboard the Northwind. Google Earth aerial from 1944: His home was apart of a residential community near the South Main & OST Y-split
  23. Cool! I found another residence of Sammy Finger in Riverside Terrace! From the [Congregation Adath Yeshurun Board of Trustees, 1942-1943] Board of Trustees – Year 1942-43 Chas. A. Keilin, Pres. / 1512 Bonnie Brae Ave. Sam Rosenberg, Vice Pres. / 3308 N. MacGregor Way Sol Laufman / 2206 East Alabama Ave. Harry S. Kaplan / 3143 Oakdale Avenue Louis Bale / 1906 Elmon Street Morrie Catchman / 2416 Calumet Avenue Sam Finger / 2302 Wichita Avenue
  24. Would just love to see a photograph of this home! Or in fact, even anywhere near here. I wonder who this family is? Maybe their family will see this and chime in with family history? The family was in the newspaper, so they must have been important to the surrounding community? I can try and find it on Google Earth, but it doesn't always work out, or the image is too blurry. From the newspaper The Jewish Herald-Voice dated September 27, 1962. Mrs. Jack M. Stein and Milton 7333 Old Main Road Wish all their relatives and friends a Happy and Prosperous New Year.
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