BenH

It ain't gonna be pretty.

You're referring to the Liedtke house at #3 Longbow Lane. I wrote to Mrs. Liedtke a few months ago asking if I could photograph the house. She replied with a hand-written letter thanking me for my interest, but would prefer not to do so for privacy concerns. The house was designed around the same time as the Steves house in San Antonio, but does not resemble it architecturally. You can see it a bit on MSN Live's maps feature. Closest I could get before I wrote the letter: There is a house by Neuhaus & Wingfield on Longbow that I've been looking for an excuse to post, and now I have it: Built in 1969, I believe. There was a house by Lloyd & Morgan that was demolished not too long ago, along with one by Irving W. Philips. One owner bought them both and is building a palace back there. Here's the Kelsey house designed by Wilson, Morris, Crain & Anderson, specifically by Ralph Anderson. Jason and I have both been in the house, and it's pretty fabulous. Front exterior: Entry courtyard: Rear Exterior: There's also a really big ranch house back there that I don't know anything about, except it's owned by Terry Hershey. To date, I believe only the Kelsey house was published.

Well, whatever goes up there will most assuredly be crap.

Michael Halbouty Energy Offices in the Galleria - 5111 Westheimer Road - Demolished. Landscaping by C.C. "Pat" Fleming. These are Houston Post and Houston Chronicle articles. The George C. Hardin mentioned in the second article was also one of Vale's residential clients. Farmer's State Bank of Brookshire - Brookshire,TX - Year and Address Unknown Also either Houston Chronicle or Houston Post. Again, Jason Smith did all the legwork for these articles. I'm just posting them. Spring Branch High School The house featured below the school is the original design for the Sammy Finger house at 3403 N. Parkwood Dr. in Riverside Terrace.

John C. Weston House - 3001 Inwood - Courtesy of Architectural Digest - Photographer unknown Weston owned the Suniland Furniture Company

J.M. Richardson House - 3971 Inverness - Early 1950's - Demolished in 83' or 84'. Courtesy of Architectural Digest. Photos by Maynard L. Parker.

Also, the owner and realtor want to find someone that will preserve the house, but the owner needs to see quickly, so that may not be an option.

Already have; I've spoken with both the realtor and the owner. They don't know the architect, but it was actually built closer to 1980, and supposedly a woman was the architect. It's an interesting house; custom exotic wood floors. That's all I've got, though.

Flyer from the 1957 Tour: This came from William R. Jenkins' personal scrapbook. Thanks to Jason Smith for tracking it down, and Melinda Jenkins.

Owsley House - Bolton & Barnstone Publications unknown. The Owsley House, Carter House and the other remaining mod on Briar Hollow were recently sold to a large family that intends to keep them. The Owsley house was having new landscaping put in last week.

The Schmiek house on Willowick by Lloyd & Morgan is still there, I just haven't been able to get a picture of it.

Yeah, I forgot...Jason did all the real legwork on this stuff, I just scanned it.

Swenson & Linnstaedter, Swenson House, 3106 Brazos Street

De Moustier House - 608 Little John Lane - Bolton & Barnstone All text and photos courtesy of Architectural Record.

Did Jason mention to buy the book?

There was a police officer standing less than five feet from me who watched the whole thing and didn't say a word.

Right, especially if the work the RDA Tours. What a bunch of jerks. Not everyone of course, only the lady that was working the driveway table on Saturday afternoon at the Carlos Jiminez house.

This house will be looking for a buyer shortly. Here's some background from a message Houston Mod received this morning: In July of 1954 a wealthy surgeon from River Oaks named Dr. Hampton Robinson, Jr. started buying large tracts of land near the community of DeWalt Texas. He was very well familiar with the area, as his father was a cattleman and lifelong resident of Missouri City. His mother was from the DeWalt family and had grown up in the old family plantation house that was located just south of the DeWalt Cemetery. Most of the land Dr. Robinson purchased was owned by descendants of the Dew family, who was once headed by Dr. Hugh Dew, a physician. However, Dr. Dew's main interest was not medicine, it was building the Dew Brothers Company. During the course of many years in the early 1900's, he accumulated massive amounts of property in Fort Bend County and used it for sugar cane, cotton, and cattle. Over the years the land was divided and was passed on to his family. Two of the these descendants that Dr. Robinson bought property from were Ruth Lalley and Jesse Dew Agnew. His goal when buying the land was to acquire ".... enough acreage in the area for its future development by others as a first class residential subdivision, with among other things, recreational facilities, customary sized residential lots and commercial reserves." When he purchased the property it was being used primarily for ranching. After acquiring it, he continued the ranching operation and also made many improvements. The first big one on his newly proclaimed Robinson Farm was a Palm Springs, California inspired mansion located on what is now Hampton Drive. This desert style house, with its flat roof and expansive layout, was designed by modern architect William F. Cody and completed in 1958. It took about 1.5 years to construct, with materials such as the stone exterior being sourced as far away as Santa Maria, California. At the time it was built, it was meant to serve only as a summer or weekend home. Other improvements to the Robinson Farm included a massive tree planting. About 1500 live oaks hand were hand dug from Pleak, Texas and planted in 1961 and 1962. These oaks can be still found today following the path of Hampton Drive. Dr. Robinson also constructed a small one story house and a horse stable by the lake on what is now Thunderbird Street. For many years the house was occupied by his brother, Joe Robinson. As early as 1959, Dr. Robinson started meeting with developers about the idea of developing a golf course on this selective property. The first group was the Houston Golf Association, along with their consultant - a former pro golfer and coach named Henry Ransom. The second was a group of developers/investors led by golfing legend Ben Hogan. Hogan and the investors even took a hayride tour of the property during the mid 1960's, but the deal failed. It made it all of the way to the final closing, but fine print was never worked out and the agreement wasn't reached. The third party involved James "Mac" MacNaughton and R.W. Carey, also known as Mac-Carey Properties. After negotiating with Dr. Robinson, they finalized the purchase of about 750 acres which was to become the new subdivision of Quail Valley. In May 1969 they also bought out several other smaller landowners including a Houston dentist named Mack Daughtery, who had a 40 acre horse ranch and house at what is now Cartwright and Oak Hill Drive. However, the family did not sell their home site and barn, and the neighborhood was built around it. Mac-Carey also purchased about 69 acres from Walter and Lillie Dew Brinkman. For years the couple operated a large chicken egg farm along Oyster Creek, close to what is now Quail Valley Middle School . At its peak, the Brinkman Egg Farm was home to over 30,000 egg-laying chickens. Within a few months of these transactions, Quail Valley became the first master-planned community in Fort Bend County when the plat for the El Dorado section of Quail Valley was approved by Missouri City on October 16th, 1969.

Added two more houses.

Fixed broken links, added a section about Allen R. Williams.

The same year #48 Tiel Way was built. The rendering for that house was featured on the same page as this article.

I can't believe they're still building the damn things. Who has that kind of money to build spec?

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I stumbled across this article while looking through Willowisps' archive of photocopies of old magazine and newspaper articles. A house for J.F. Corley in the Tall Timbers section of River Oaks: Here's the house today: It's tucked back on a small, private part of Inverness. I can't remember the address. The house was designed by Harry Turner and Charles Geyer. They have a few entries in the Houston Architecture Guide, but other than that, I don't know much about them. Thanks to Russell Howard, though, we've found Mr. Turner's former residence. It's one of the mods on Chimney Rock that are such a mystery. Here it is: