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http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/business/3047139 Feb. 19, 2005, 12:40AM Developers have ideas for Imperial land By NANCY SARNOFF and ERIC HANSON Copyright 2005 Houston Chronicle The sprawling Imperial Sugar refinery, once the center of Sugar Land's economic and social life, is being sold to developers who hope to return it to that status with a project mixing condominiums, single-family homes and retail space. On Friday, Imperial Sugar announced that it reached a preliminary agreement with a partnership of Cherokee Investment Partners and W.C. Perry Land Development to buy the 160-acre Fort Bend County property. "We'll be turning a blight on the community into something more viable and preserving the historic nature of the sight," said W.C. Perry's Will Perry, the son of well-known residential developer Bob Perry of Perry Homes. The elder Perry is not involved. Ultimately, this proposed development could include much more than the old sugar refinery. Perry said the groups will try to acquire a 550-acre tract of state-owned land northwest of the property and redevelop the entire parcel. The prospect of redevelopment is a relief to area residents who have been concerned about living next door to an empty and decaying industrial complex. "I think, for the most part, most people are very excited to know there will be something there instead of a vacant factory with a lot of buildings that need to be demolished. It's looking pretty tacky right now," said Kristin Lytle, who founded the Friends of Old Sugar Land. Perry sees the central feature in the proposed development as something similar to San Antonio's River Walk or The Woodlands Waterway. Oyster Creek runs through the property. Plans are still very preliminary, however, as the group hasn't yet struck a deal with the state on the additional acreage or closed on the Imperial Sugar property. The developers won't discuss the terms or additional details about the proposed project until it is further along. Their deal to buy the Imperial Sugar property could close by year-end, but they must complete a detailed review. Other groups have looked at the sugar refinery site, but it goes back to the early 1900s, and Cherokee's experience in redeveloping old industrial plants helped get the attention of Imperial Sugar executives. The Raleigh, N.C.-based real estate firm buys contaminated properties like old manufacturing and refining sites, cleans up any environmental damage and sells or develops them in partnerships. In 2003, Cherokee closed a $620 million fund

I am just curious about something.......Growing up in the 70's I had an older brother who was a bit of a juvenile delinquent ( At least that's what they called out of control kids back then) After breaking the law a few to many times, they sentenced him to a boys home. I am trying to remember a certain one. I believe it was located out in Clear Lake, and I remember on family visits, that they had horses, canoes and it was like a summer camp. I guess the juvenile justice system sure has changed. Just wondering if any one has any information on the place. Back then it was all under The Harris county youth authority, and I know they had several other places in Texas.

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?

wow!! Look at this beautiful mansion! I wonder the architect and address? Residence of W.T. Carter 1908 Geo. Beach

wow!! Look at this beautiful mansion! I wonder the architect and address? Residence of Judge Sam Streetman

I was researching Carolyn Homoiselle Grant this week. I forgot that The Fay School on North Post Oak Road was named after her. Carolyn Homoiselle Grant married Ernest Bel Fay and was renamed Carolyn Grant-Fay. Carolyn's father was the owner of John F. Grant Lumber Co. and was doing well for himself. One internet article mentioned the family estate was 52-acres that was located at Holcombe & Bertner. When Carolyn Grant-Fay sold the family land in the area she made an agreement with TMC to build a park in the redevelopment. Now, the park is named Grant-Fay Park and is located at 1368 Holcombe Blvd. After my research on HAIF, there is appears there is left over Harris Gully in the park. I really need to go check it out! The HAIF poster states: At the north end of this park, about 15 feet from Holcombe, is a 20 foot deep gully that extends the full length of the park, west to east. It looks like the Texas Medical Center Garage 2 was built over the family estate? The address of the garage is 6740-6798 Bertner Ave. City of Houston Planning and Development Department Archaeological & Historical Commission Buildings by Sam H. Dixon, Jr. James A Baker, Jr., House, 1216 Bissonnet Avenue (1926) Sam H. Dixon, Jr., House, 1612 Bissonnet Avenue (c. 1927, demolished) Colonial Country Club, (1927-28) William H. Curtin House, 2504 Del Monte (1928) Jack W. Lander House, 1714 South Boulevard (1929) Buildings by Briscoe & Dixon: John T. Crotty House, 4 Longfellow Lane (1921-23) Y.W.C.A. Home, 1118 Crawford Street (1922-23; demolished) John McCleean House, 4100 Milam Street, (1923; altered) Alterations to J.J. Caroll House, 16 Courtlandt Place (1923) William L. Clayton Summer House, 3376 Inwood Drive (1924) Henry Stude House, 14 Remington Lane (1924) John F. Dickson, Jr., House, 1311 South Boulevard (1924-25) W.D. Cleveland, Jr., House, 1323 South Boulevard (1924-24, extensively altered) Jordan Motor Company Building, 1211-1219 McKinney Avenue (1924-25; demolished) Walter H. Walne House, 1405 South Boulevard (1924-25) Redbird House, 3237 Inwood Drive (1925) James S. Hogg Junior High School, 1100 Merrill Street (1925-26, with Maurice J. Sullivan) Jefferson Davis (later Northside) Senior High School, 1200 Quitman Street (1925-06 with Maurice J. Sullivan) Craig F. Cullinan House, 6 Longfellow Lane (1925-26) John F. Grant House, 1401 Holcombe Boulevard (1925-26; demolished) Would love to see a photo of this house!! Sounds amazing!! Aerial Photograph in 1944: Aerial Photograph in 1978:

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!

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

http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2016/11/01/nonprofit-secures-land-in-texas-medical-center.html

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

https://www.signorellicompany.com/press/626/signorelli-company-announces-austin-point-master-planned-community https://realtynewsreport.com/fourteen-thousand-homes-planned-for-new-community/

I was just wondering if anyone has lived in the lofts owned by Weise Properties. Im considering leasing from them and was just wondering what the buildings and the landlords are like. I know the own a few warehouses around commerce street that the lease as artist lofts and Im interested in moving to one soon. Thanks in advance for any suggestions! -Donald

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.

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:

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:

https://www.bizjournals.com/houston/news/2023/06/08/johnson-development-begins-building-jubilee.html "Jubilee is being built on 1,622 acres in Hockley just south of Highway 290 and a few miles from the Grand Parkway. When complete, the community is slated to have approximately 4,900 homes, nearly 30 acres of parks and amenity space and more than 270 acres of greenspace and waterways."

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.

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?

Sounds kind of funny to be calling a 1974 building historic but I suppose it was one of the first residential highrises in Houston. There is also the 2016 Main building which was built in the mid 60s I believe. It's gotten a little worn, but they still try to keep it up. That building is on the site where a large mansion used to stand owned by the Levy family who founded the Levy Brothers Department Store. The brothers and their sister lived in the house for many years and I don't believe any of them ever married. When the house was torn down finally, the 2016 main highrise was built and it's my understanding the Levy sister lived there for a time before her death. Levy Bros. Dry Goods Co.

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:

http://www.har.com/2525-maconda-houston-tx-77027/homevalue_3167481 I am not sure if this is the right place to put this question but what in the heck is going on with this house? it is located pretty much across the street from the whataburger at 3639 westheimer and has been under construction for about 15 YEARS or more is my guess...i am not kidding when it seems that the owner maybe buys one board or one window or one light switch plate every 3 to 6 months haha! I pass by it almost daily and its so weird to see this shell of a house with no back walls facing Westheimer... i have just always wondered what they deal was and wondered if there was an interesting story about the owner or property etc... thanks!

I finally saw this picture in my iphoto archive. I knew I had a picture of it. 3. 3403 N. Parkwood Dr - Willard & Hood (Lars Bang?) http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v729/clockwatchers/DSC02115.jpg

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

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

I saw the demo permits for this several weeks ago. It's directly across from the newly built Nest on Dryden. Seems like a perfect spot for another one since the lot next to it is already vacant.