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  1. Came across an awesome old house this week. Looks to have been built in the 1920s? Love the old car!
  2. Built in 1891 and designed by "star architect" Eugene Heiner, Thomas Scanlan mansion was beautiful. The house stood at 1917 Main Street. The home was eventually demolished and Thomas Scanlan built his new mansion in Missouri City which is daughters eventually took over.
  3. Andrew Dow was the president of Milby & Dow Coal & Mining Company. Here is his house, or mansion. Photograph taken in 1907.
  4. In 1887, the architect George Dickey designed the house for Joseph Chappell Hutcheson. Located at 1417 McKinney Street in downtown, this could have been in the area of the residential neighborhood Quality Hill.
  5. The architect Nicholas J. Clayton designed the house of Albert A. Van Alstyne and John F. Dickson in 1877. Edit: Appears the ownership went Albert Alstyne to James Masterson to John Dickson. Such a beautiful old mansion. Cool history here.
  6. Found this amazing Downtown mansion that belonged to Alexander Root and designed by George Dickey in 1894. It looks like the Root family donated their land to the city. Now stands the Root Memorial Square Park.
  7. Eugene Heiner designed the Charles S. House mansion in downtown Houston in 1882. Kind of reminds me of a George Dickey design. Both awesome architects!
  8. I found this home in Midtown from 1913 and thought I would share. Beautiful home of J.P. Carter. Corner of Main Street and McGowen Avenue. For an exact address, I had help from houstontimeportal. http://www.houstontimeportal.net/joseph-p-carter.html 2602 Main: Residence of Joseph Presley Carter (1872-1946), president of Attoyac River Lumber Company, with tracts along the river bottom lands between Nacogdoches and Shelby Counties in East Texas; also president of the Carter Lumber Company, his legacy from his brother Samuel Fain Carter (1857-1928), president of The Lumbermans National Bank. Samuel at this time was building the 16-story Carter Building at Main and Rusk, Houston’s first true high-rise building.
  9. On the Houston History site, there's a great slideshow of old mansions and homes. http://www.houstonhistory.com/poduct2/album3/jsalbum.html Most of them were downtown or in Midtown. There were literally dozens of High Victorian mansions, some designed by George Dickey and one by Nicholas Clayton. What I found totally surprising was how short a time they lasted. Many were built after 1870 and torn down just after the turn of the century. The 1920's saw most of these grand homes, none as much as fifty years old and many closer to thirty years old, demolished, seemingly without a second thought. A bare handful survived until the 1950's but no later. I suspect the development of Broadacres, Shadyside, Shadowlawn, and later River Oaks and Riverside Terrace contributed to this, but it's enough to sicken any ardent preservationist. Anyone else heard of this? marmer
  10. 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?
  11. Love this house!! Thought I would share the information I found with HAIF. Anyone know the architect? Or an exact address? A quick browse brought me to finding this: The Henry Fox house, the last mansion on Main Street, occupied the site of the present Exxon Building. So Main Street at Bell Street? If that information is accurate. I assume the neighborhood was Quality Hill. Residence of Henry S. Fox
  12. Charlotte Baldwin Allen, wife of Houston founder Augustus Chapman Allen, occupied this two story frame house located at 718 Main at Rusk Avenue. She occupied the home from its original construction in the 1850s until her death at age ninety in 1895. The house was later demolished in 1915. The old home of the Allen family (founders of Huston) Another photograph:
  13. I was browsing the City of Houston Public Library's Digital Archives and I found the Hugh Waddell mansion in the neighborhood Quality Hill with an address of 2404 Caroline Street. I really love these old homes! The tall circular turrets are cool. I can definitely see how Quality Hill was the original River Oaks. All these grand mansions sitting on high value land.
  14. I was researching the William Hutchins Mansion located in the Quality Hill neighborhood of Houston. I first started reading the Houstonhistorymagazine's article about Quality Hill. That gave me: In 1850 Hutchins built one of the earliest and what was considered one of the finest houses in Quality Hill. It stood on the corner of Franklin Avenue and La Branch Street, near Hutchins’s place of business on the corner of Franklin Avenue and Main Street. I then came to a City of Houston Landmark Designation Report for the Palace Hotel located at 216 LaBranch Street. In that report, I saw: Sanborn insurance maps from 1885 show Block 25 with the Globe Hotel down the street on the corner of Congress and Austin. The present location of the Palace Hotel building is vacant land. The large house on Block 25 that faces Franklin was the Hutchins house, one of the large houses that were once common in this area known as Quality Hill. Ownership by the Hutchins family of the lots of Block 25 can be traced back to 1853. I then went to the Library of Congress to look at the 1885 Sanborn insurance map. I then located the mansion on Block 25: Old photograph of the house:
  15. I couldn't find information on the old Charles Longcope Mansion located at 109 Chenevert Street in the Quality Hill neighborhood of Houston. The Houston Daily Post dated April 25, 1898: Unfolding the flag. The Lords' Bicycle Club the Scene of a Gallant Event. Yesterday morning at 10 o'clock the old Longscope building on Chenevert street, now the Lord's Cycle club headquarters, was the scene of a jolly, enthusiastic and most patriotic crowed of member and friends of the bicycle club-- Houstonhistorymagazine.org: The Southwestern Historical Quarterly dated July 1967 - April, 1968:
  16. I noticed this awesome home the other day. Owned by the Henke and Pillot team member C.G. Pillot. This was featured in the Standard Blue Book of Texas Houston Edition dated 1907-1908. I wonder where this was. The Heights? Downtown?
  17. http://www.old-picture.com/united-states-1930s-1940s/pictures/Houston-Home.jpg Found this on a web site called [link removed]. Says it was taken in 1943. Any ideas?
  18. I was researching the Quality Hill neighborhood and came across the home of Cornelius Ennis located at 216 Congress at the corner of Jackson. Houston city directory for 1882-83:
  19. I was looking at the Standard Blue Book of Texas Houston Edition dated 1907-1908 and came across a few cool, old, homes. I found the Residences of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph F. Meyer. Very cool! I wonder where this was located?
  20. Does anyone know where I might locate a photo of the now-demolished Dillingham residence that once stood at 1214 Rusk Street in Houston? Architect George Dickey claimed to be the designer of the home, but it was actually a slight variant of design #485 published by Robert W. Shoppell in "Shoppell's Modern Houses" (1887). Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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