SamHouston

There's a USDOT add out there about drunk driving...it starts something like, "All around the country police are coming out" and cuts to a shot of a policeman (not HPD, since he is wearing all dark blue/black) circling checkpoints on a dry erase map. You really need tivo to catch it, since it goes by pretty quickly, but if you pause it, you can clearly see Beltway 8 and the 610 loop. Funny they picked us.

So all I found was this bit: Link "The asylum was a large uninhabited home, a long dorm set up out back and a couple of other small houses. It was just down the street from the Church (walking distance). I believe it became a police dog training spot in the past 20 years, but is probably high end condos now. Sort of the Webster, Gray, Bagby area." Also Link 2 "Clinic is now St. Thomas University main building." But the St. Thomas website says the main building (Link-Lee Manison) has a different history, and the AIA guide confirms this.

So I was in the Village a few weeks ago and saw a sign about closing the 2400 block of Bolsover. I went back to take a picture for all of us, but it had been taken down... But today at breakfast at Buffalo Grille I'm reading the West U rag and see this Further hunting uncovered the Southampton Civic Club's page. There they have a site plan and some renderings.

So I went by this weekend...the sign out front is gone and there's a note on the sales office door saying they're closed and who to call. It will be interesting to see what they do with the 10 acres of bayou-front real estate...sell it as one lot, sell it as 10-20 large home lots, or do the Rice Military and build 150 townhomes (which would do wonders for traffic).

WAC was the Western Athletic Conference...other Rice alums include Larry Izzo (NE Patriots) and Lance Berkman (Astros; didn't graduate); there's more, but those are the big ones.

The 4.8k number includes grad students (about 1.8k or so) leaving the undergrad population at nearly 3,000 looking to grow to 4,000 in the next decade or so. As for C-USA, sorry you missed the nine or so years Rice was in the WAC playing such schools as Hawaii and Boise State.

I would be wary of the Beaconsfield. While the price might be right, the monthly maintenance fee is around $0.65/sq. ft., one of the highest in the city. It helps that the elevator is manually operated. That's my 65 cents. Data from here.

Okay, this is my best guess of location: In the overhead angle, the roof in the left foreground looks very similar to the roof of the the Children's Assessment Center - John M. O'Quinn Campus, on the northwest corner of Bolsover and Kelvin. Then in the overhead, the "pink street" between the two developments would be Bolsolver east of Kelvin as it runs between Walgreens and the UPS Store, Nit Noi etc, meaning that the 6-10 story office building that the UPS Store is in as well as the strip mall that has Nit Noi & Good Neighbor Cleaners would make way for the building w/ the pool, etc, as well as El Paso Imports and Kin's Cafe on the north side of that block. Walgreens and the surrounding parking lots (east and west) would be the footprint for the strip of buildings on the right side of the overhead. I'm interested to see if the south side of the development (south of Bolsolver, east of Kelvin) will back up to the pre-existing stores on Rice (Texadelphia, etc.) or if this will take up two full blocks and replace the retail on Rice Blvd. These points are all moot if I don't have the right location. Here are some links to see what I'm talking about: Google Map of the area - The O-Quinn Campus is the large, gabled roof running along Kelvin between Bolsover and Dunstan...my guess for the location of the development is the full block of Kelvin, Dunstan, Morningside and Bolsover with some development south of Bolsolver between Kelvin and Morningside. Rice Village Map - This could help too

I can't place this yet, but a little poking around the Ziegler Cooper website I found this: It's from the top of their page, (apologies, I don't have a picture host/the will to crop it) to the right of the 2727 Kirby picture appears to be another rendering of the project...certain things match up. Let me know if you agree.

HAR.com has some listings for 2727 Kirby: Penthouse There you'll find the elevations: