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    Large/Old Home Exposed At Little York & Hwy. 6

    in The Great Northwest

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    Old thread, but I'm bumping to chime in support of the resevoir theory, and to maybe get some new eyes on this thread that didn't see it in 2009 but might have some information. Also, to add pics.


     


     

    I have long been intrigued by this house, and this thread has scratched and excacerbated my intrigue more than ever.

     

    HCAD has the build date listed as 1940. I saw somebody mention they didn't see it in old aerials - I've looked myself (I live down the creek) and remember that the house was there as far back as 1947 (the oldest imagery I found) but had very heavy tree cover, making it difficult to make out a house there. There were a few other, smaller farms, within about a half mile, mile proximity.

     

    The Addicks dam was authorized by an act passed in 1938, so perfectly aligned with the hint that it was built from salvages material from the clearing of the dam.

     

    I always wondered if this place had rich history as some sort of plantation, with the location on the creek and all. The dates don't quite line up for that, but the dates line up perfectly for the reservoir explanation, which is even more interesting to me.

     

    Just from the little bit of information available in this thread, the house is incredible to me. coop's friend who lived in the house and had "Greathouse," as a surname. The shady police officers occupying the home. It being salvaged from one of the most historically interesting areas of Houston. I can only imagine how much more there is to know about the house. 

     

    Not the best photo - taken from very far away. The house seems to be occupied now, and the residents put up a little chain and a "private driveway," sign. I also had to adjust the exposure to try to make the house more visible. And as you can see the house appears to sit on a river, as the photo was taken today, the day following the 5/25/2015 floods.

     


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    Memories Of West Houston

    in Historic Houston

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    I live down the creek from the house on West Little York. It is a beautiful home and still maintained, and still holding a fair value on HCAD. It is on aerial maps for as far as I can go back, which is the 40s, though it was completely covered in trees and barely visible. There were a few other farm homes around connected with dirt roads, including one which sat on the land my neighborhood was built on. The creeks looks amazing in aerial photos - like a riparian forest. Wish it still looked that way today. 

     

    Wow! malvie and boogaloo - thanks for the wonderful memories! I stumbled upon this site a few weeks ago and have now spent far too much time avoiding other work reading all of this. A few things I remember, to add a little to this thread. Hubby and I moved here in 1978, living in a Harold Farb complex on Gessner near Bellaire, then bought a townhouse on Pagewood, right behind Emerson Elementary. I worked at Best Products for a while and remember driving by the Cadillac Club someone mentioned somewhere here. Yes, definitely not Cadillac! When we first got here I did temp work for a very nice townhome development - Hudson on Memorial. Very upscale townhomes. I also temped for a few months for two law firms in a bank building on 610 - O'Quinn, Kerensky and Machinek (sp?) and Rogers, Rubenstein and Wright. It was always a mouthful to answer either phone line. Worked for Channel Z too, offices on Post Oak and 610. Then worked for Richmond Tank Car in the office building next to the Marriott. Hamburgers by Gourmet was a favorite lunch run back then, I think it is an erotic lingerie store now. I remember keeping an eye on the gas lines at the stations right there too, running down to get in line as you saw cars starting to line up.

    While living in that area of west Houston, we frequented Baby Jane's Log Cabin on Richmond on Friday nights. Dan Pastorini was a frequent visitor there too, often with a few sweeties on his arms.

    In '81 we moved out to "far west" Houston, off Barker Cypress Rd. It did not go straight through as it does today, but rather zig-zagged all over the place. Windsong Trail was known as Gertie Rice Rd and West Little York was a dead end at Hwy 6. I took a job in CFISD at the elementary school in Prestonwood Forest. Met a few other teachers at the parking lot that is now Park n' Ride to carpool to work. Highway 6 had just expanded to 4 lanes and there were maybe 7-8 stoplights all the way up to 249.

    I remember one fall, at the start of the school year, that West Little York suddenly cut through past Hwy 6 to the west, and Barker Cypress was getting straightened out. Seems there was a little bit of a scandal about Bob Eckels (IIRC) and that extension of WLY. Now there are probably 25-30 stoplights between I-10 and 249 along Hwy 6!

    Worked for a couple of summers temping in office buildings at the Barker Cypress end of a new development - Park 10! Rather than drive down BC to I-10 and up Hwy 6 to enter Park 10, those of us that lived off Barker Cypress just made a dirt road across the field to where Park Row ended. You just couldn't use it when it was rainy. Also the hill on Barker Cypress going up and over the dam was really steep back then. When they expanded BC they made the hill much more friendly.

    I remember the Barker Post office and the old timey buildings that were there with it. Seem to remember also, when they tore all of that down, there was a pool under or behind the buildings that I had never seen before. Also a nice little nursery over to the east (Baker Rd maybe) where Barker Cypress ended at I-10.

    One house I have often wondered about, and I have not really poked around here much to see if there is any info, is the house at the corner of Hwy 6 and West Little York. The land was cleared around the house a few years ago, and several of the buildings on the property were torn down, but the main house is there. It looks like it was very beautiful in its day. Wonder what its history is.

    Well, I am glad to find this forum and really glad to read everyones memories of West Houston! Looking forward to reading more here in the future!

     

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