Ross

No, it is not 82 degrees with 100% humidity. Houston is humid, but not that humid. The road diets will improve things for cyclists and pedestrians.

HISD has enough stadiums already. No need for another one. All of the Olympic sports have training centers in various places now.

1940's maybe? I've never seen an accurate date on them. I too would love to know. They are a super useful resource.

Wow, I did not know that Yellow Cab Houston disappeared and is now zTrip. My wife grew up in that part of town, and we seriously considered buying an entire block in the early 90's, when we could have done so for about $140,000.

That house was apparently built in the 80's. The narrow lot there was created when Montrose was extended North from Westheimer. Prior to that, the street was named Lincoln Here's the block book map for the property. which is Tract 23A

I had to use an old favorite, Irfan View to open the file, as it's too large for the Windows photo app

That was one of Exxon, and other oil companies, efforts to diversify out of oil and gas. They were all pretty much abject failures. Here's a decent article on Exxon Office Systems https://mondaynote.com/50-years-intech-part-4-the-exxon-delusion-d92ada84f6e Note that part of that division was Zilog, the company that made the Z80 chip, one of the first successful microprocessors. Other odd oil company efforts to diversify: Getty oil owned a large portion of ESPN. Mobil owned Montgomery Ward Atlantic Richfield bought Anaconda Copper just in time to be saddled with the clean up liabilities Occidental owned Iowa Beef Here's another good article https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1984/12/02/big-oil-companies-pull-back-after-decade-of-diversifying-industry-said-to-find-its-skills-hard-to-transfer/abb09be5-8040-46d9-bed5-564a811c6824/

You will like the changes to 11th Street in the Heights. Nextdoor is blowing up about how the City is catering to 3 cyclists and causing drivers to die. As if it's the fault of the City when a driver hits the bike lane separator.

I would suspect that apartment looked like the one at 1216 Webster.

Crosswell was born in 1915. His wife was the daughter of Houston Mayor Oscar Holcombe. When he registered for the draft in 1940, he lived on Danville street, which appears to have been eaten by the SW freeway, except for a short stretch just East of Buffalo Speedway. The 1950 census shows him lving at the 2154 Dryden address, and his profession is owner of a home construction company. In 1957, he's shown as a Trustee of the Kinkaid School. He and his wife donated the Holcombe mansion to the Medical Center. It looks like later in life, Crosswell lived at 3756 Knollwood in River Oaks until 1995.

Addresses are where Harvin lived. He was born in San Francisco in 1919, where his Dad, William C Harvin, Jr, was working as a purchasing agent for a cement company. HIs dad apparently went insane, as he's shown as living in the San Antonio State Hospital in 1930 and 1940, and died in the Kerrville State Hospital in 1966. The 1951 special bar exam is interesting, since Harvin started practicing in 1946.

I bet this is not for Shell, the company, but is an empty building. The name is confusing.

The 2 Melchers are the children of Anne Schlumberger Melcher and Leroy Melcher Jr, who were married in April 1959. The twin sons were born on December 26, 1959, presumably somewhat premature(that's a joke based on the mores of the time, since there was not 40 weeks between the marriage date and the birth date). Anne and Leroy Melcher divorced at some point, and she married Jules Bohnn in 1969. They divorced in 1990, and she later married Peter Brown. Anne Bohnn bought the Shadyside property from Cory Miner and his wife. There was a lot of litigation over whether Lots U and V could be subdivided into 2 lots. Once all that was resolved, the 2 Lot U lots were transferred to the Melcher kids. Anne Bohnn lives on Waverly Court, which is on the North edge of Shadyside, and her lot adjoins the lot for 2 1/2 Remington. She is 83 years old now, I think. The Pierre Schlumberger mentioned in the obituary above was the brother of Anne S Bohnn. When Rice University sold the property, it went to an entity names S S William Rice. That entity was not related to the University, as far as I can tell, but defaulted on the promissory note, and lost the property.

The property was deeded to Rice University in 1978 by the Houston Post Hobby Shadyside.pdf

When owned by the Hobbys, 2 Remington was Lot U, Shadyside, a 5.178 acre lot. It's since been split into 2 lots, with addresses of 2 Remington and 2 1/2 Remington. Before the Hobbys bought it, it had been the home of Joseph Cullinan, a founder of Texaco. Oveta Culp Hobby had the home demolished in the early 70's, supposedly after a deed restriction fight with the HOA. The property was given to Rice University in 1978 by the Houston Post Company, the actual owner of the property. Rice sold the property in 1983, and it apparently had issues with default after that, before those issues were resolved. There was a prior thread on this property

Pershing Middle School was built on that site. The building that is now on the SW corner of the property was built, and the old school demolished, I lived a few blocks South of there for a while in the Early 80's, in some apartmetns where the YMCA now sits 1953, Pershing Jr High, then 2 blocks full of 4plex apartments, then the block with Mark Twain Elementary: 1978 Pershing Jr High, the 4plexes, but with a cleaners, a convenience store and some other crap, then the apartments on the West side of the block where the elementary school sat. Between those apartments(I lived in the North building about 1/3 of the way East, and the school, was a really crappy apartment building. Surprisingly, there was little crime there, given that the apartments weren't great, and the 4plex buildings were getting pretty run down.

At some point, the block the Bertner house was on, along with the old Baker Estate that was in the Oak Place/Helena curve started being transferred around. The Baker Estate was given to Rice University when Capt James A Baker died. I can't tell when the Bertner property, and the block it sits on, were transferred, most likely to the Bertner Foundation. At some point, Rice transferred the Baker Estate to the MD Anderson Foundation. The Bertner block, also know as Settegast and Upham got transferred as well, but It's hard to see exactly what the order is. Here's a link to a Rice University site with pictures of the interior of the Baker house https://scholarship.rice.edu/handle/1911/77645 I remember driving by that location in the 80's and thinking that it would be an awesome place to build a house. It had been empty forever, as nothing could be built in that part of town due to the sewer capacity restrictions. 1944 aerial of the area

1923 directory entries for Maplewood Here's a block book map for Walker at Lockwood showing the street as Maplewood

Great! The conspiracy is working!😂

The description of that plat map at the bottom right is kind of funny. A replat of a partial replat and a replat. Looks like the random buildings and frame houses that were there in the past started being cleared in 2010, and was complete in 2013. The entire property was owned by Victor Zurita, the orthodontist that owns some property on Yale we've discussed in the past. This replat combines the five lots at the East side of the property, the abandoned alley behind those properties, and the former unrestricted reserve A in this picture The alley was officially abandoned by City Council in June 2022, when a motion was passed to reject the dedication of the alley to the City. That was sort of interesting that it was done in that way. Hessed is the general partner of Sela ltd, the entity that owns the property now. Zurita sold the property to Sela in November, at least it owns the highlighted lots above. I am going to guess that the sale of the other portion hasn't been recorded yet. Hessed has replatted a number of properties around town that ended up becoming self storage units owned by iStorage JV, including the one on West Gray. Anyone want to take bets on whether this property becomes a storage unit? In other interesting news, there were tax liens on this property, and others, that were transferred to Taxcore Lending, llc. Tax records show that taxes for 2021 weren't paid until June 2022, with significant penalties. That's what happens when you play property developer without enough capital.

Welcome to the future, comrade!

Take a picture and use Google Lens to search for it

6th in the pond had buildings on top of it from at least 1907. The map I linked to above shows a building on top of 6th between Ashland and Portland(now Tulane), and the aerials from 1944 forward show that as well. The City probably abandoned it way back in the early days. Or, the city of Houston Heights abandoned it before annexation. The attached file contains the metes and bounds from when the property was sold to Bracher Lumber by David Bracher in October 1972 Blocks 272 273 294 295 Heights.pdf

The Aztec site plus some other property belonged to Swift Agricultural Chemicals until the 70's. Here's the 1907 map that shows the Heights block numbers https://www.harriscountyarchives.com/Maps/imgZ.html?img=houston1907_1 and here's a snip of the area from that map Blocks 272 and 273 appear to be the retention pond, along with the blocks to the South. 6th is platted as a through street, but there were buildings on it on 1944 and 1953 as shown on Google Earth. In addition, the bayou was rerouted, but the old path can be seen in the pond. Construction of the pond started in 2010 or 2011. Before that there were a number of trailers and objects stored there, along with some buildings. I would not be surprised if there is contamination, given that there appears to be some sort of manufacturing facility on the old aerials, and it was owned by a chemical company. I've attached the pdf files of the deeds where Swift sold the properties. Blocks 269 etc.pdf Blocks 271 etc.pdf

Contact the developer and tell them what you've told us here. Maybe they don't know about the BRT, it's not mentioned in the leasing brochure. This is a 2 story building with office space(or whatever) on the top. It's a weird shaped piece of land that needs to have space for parking for customers and tenants, and a reasonable way for the dumpsters to be emptied. Where would you put the building? Where would you put the dumpsters and service areas?