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From the 1907 Sanborn key map, Roanoke is highlighted in yellow:
From the Harris County Archives 1890 map at https://www.harriscountyarchives.com/Maps/imgZ.html?img=Houston1890_full
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1890 directory has them on Forrest, North Side of Buffalo Bayou:
In 1923, they are shown on Roanoke Street NSBB
I haven't found those streets yet, at least not enough to be certain of their exact locations.
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7 hours ago, gene said:
IF they can make a couple of medians in that lot with trees (or something) it will at least look a little better...i am just hoping it isn't just a giant surface lot...
3 story parking garage that hides the building🤣
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22 minutes ago, Texasota said:
If you think that parking lot has narrow spaces and narrow lanes then that says more about what kind of oversized car you drive then it does about the (perfectly normal) parking lot.
When I drove a Jetta, that parking lot had narrow spaces. It has always had narrow spaces.
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16 minutes ago, Tumbleweed_Tx said:
she can always drive to New Mexico.
or get a second opinion. I trust doctors about as far as I can throw them these daysWhat is that supposed to mean? And why are you distrusting of doctors?
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That's the site of the Kinder High School for Performing and Visual Arts. HISD never sold the lot after the previous building (not the one in the picture) was torn down, but used it as a parking lot.
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1 hour ago, Highrise Tower said:
I came across a house in Midtown from 1913 and wanted to share. Love how clean the landscape/grass is. Would love to see the whole neighborhood!
I wonder who Louise Stude is. Banker? Doctor? Realtor?
The pretty home of Mrs. Louise B. Stude, 2310 Fannin Street.
She was the widow of Alphonse Stude, who was head of Stude Baking Company. He died in 1895. Company was on Preston between Milam and Travis
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List of Magnolia stations in 1923:
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7 hours ago, Triton said:
Right, this is what I was thinking too. I mean, you won't have exits going south anymore but this seems like we still have most of them.
The Nextdoor poster was specifically complaining about TxDoT "closing" the Allen Parkway, Memorial and Houston Avenue exits from I-45 North of the Pierce Elevated. None of those exits are relevant after the Pierce is demolished.
Nextdoor poster added a diagram to demonstrate what they are talking about. This is too funny, and completely incorrect
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16 hours ago, august948 said:
My understanding has been that subways aren't feasible here due to the high water table combined with shifting clay soil and our frequent flood events. Hadn't even considered the likelihood of abandoned well bores.
Like the constraints, or lack thereof, I'm sure that varies widely from locale to locale.
Dealing with water intrusion is an engineering issue. There are areas where the London tunnels have to deal with water, and they seem successful. The flooding issues there are from water coming in from ground level during heavy rain or when weather and tides work to raise the level of the Thames high enough to put water in station and tunnel entrances. The older bored tunnels in London use cast iron rings bolted together to line the tunnel. The newer ones use concrete. The cut and cover tunnels are supported by brick walls and iron beams across the top, but there are also many open areas where there's no need for street crossings. London hasn't had a new cut and cover line built in over a century due to the disruption and land cost.
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8 hours ago, Urbannizer said:
I agree but better quality of materials and design than this one.
What materials would you use if you were building these? What design changes would you make? I have very little imagination when it comes to that part of building, and would probably build these exactly as they appear, so am curious as to the alternatives.
I think that in terms of costs, and going on the assumption that these are somewhat disposable buildings, there's not a lot wrong. Our house is 70+ years old, frame, and had cedar shakes. We replaced the cedar with Hardi 8 years ago, so the house is pretty much the same as these apartments.
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Nextdoor had a post alerting everyone to the fact that TxDoT would be closing the exits to Allen Parkway, Memorial, and Houston Avenue as part of the project, making it impossible for anyone who needs those exits to get to their destinations. I don't think they realized that with the Pierce Elevated torn down, those exits would be meaningless. Hilarious.
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21 minutes ago, EllenOlenska said:
I'll just throw this in there: they built the Washburn Tunnel, show someone should know how to bore holes near (in) water.
The Washburn Tunnel wasn't bored. The tubes were built on land then dropped into deep trenches dredged across the Ship Channel. That's the same way the Baytown Tunnel was built.
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1 hour ago, august948 said:
How's the water table in central London?
It can be as high as 9 feet below ground level, but is usually lower. The newer underground lines are typically bored through a clay formation that's impervious to water. Here's an article on underground water in London https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/Geoscientist/Archive/May-2013/Troubled-waters
One advantage London has over Houston is that there have never been any oil wells drilled in London. There is a fairly high risk of hitting an unknown abandoned oil well bore here, depending on which part of town you are under.
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I drove past the site today. Plumber trucks were there and there were guys working on some drains. The site looks far worse than it did when people were living there. The mobile homes must all be 50+ years old. The fence is falling down as well.
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17 hours ago, ChannelTwoNews said:
He announced his retirement late last week. His last day on air will be December 13th.
I've always liked Khambrel. He was good with the news, and was able to pivot to weather and stay relevant. He certainly doesn't look like he's 70.
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That set of apartments is always showing up in Nextdoor with complaints about one thing or another. Maybe it's going to get better.
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6 hours ago, august948 said:
Millennials/Gen Z gonna change the world, eh? We've heard that before...
...from the Boomers 🤣🤣🤣
tu fui ego eris
That's from London in 1973. Earls Court was demolished a few years ago and the site is being redeveloped.
London has good public transport because the core was built over 100 years ago. The Metropolitan Line opened in 1863, and was built using cut and cover, which is hugely disruptive.
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2 hours ago, freundb said:
Well now I'll be doing the same.
I really like this completely unnecessary bit of wall here
That's an inadvertently exposed entrance to the secret underground bunker that is part of the infrastructure the Illuminati use for mind control😂
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2 hours ago, MrFubbles said:
I truly cannot put into words how much I despise this plan for the quad. It looks like the Woodlands Church
Can't we just replace the statue and move on? That curved path is offensive
Not a fan either. I guess I'll continue to not give money to Rice and give it schools with a smaller endowment and who do more to help the less advantaged students.
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Owned by MDA since 2003, former home of a computer services company named Solid Systems. Looks like there's 3 generators, 3 cooling towers, and a fairly large diesel tank.
It's probably better to have a data center located more to the North, as the risk of flooding and hurricane damage will be less than anything to the South. And, the building was probably available and had the infrastructure to support a data center. Power, ability to have multiple network feeds, etc.
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1 hour ago, 004n063 said:
This weekend I saw somebody eating a mayonnaise, peanut butter, and jelly sandwich.
So I can say with confidence that it is certainly not the worst idea ever.
But I also am not sure the negatives of LVT outweigh the negatives of what we have now.
LVT would likely result in the construction of unneeded buildings that serve no useful purpose. The vacant lots will get built on when it's economic to do so.
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14 hours ago, Highrise Tower said:
Just discovered Max Wesheimer's home in a newspaper article. Max was once of M.L. Westheimer's nephews.
I looked on Google Maps and 1400 Chenevert is now a surface lot. I wonder how big his house was?
From the newspaper The Jewish Herald-Voice dated September 22, 1938.
Westheimer - Mr. and Mrs. Max and nephew, Mr. Joseph J. Eisemann, 1400 Chenevert, extend best wishes to all their friends and relatives for a Happy and Prosperous New Year.
I think that was a temporary place to live while their house at 4018 Yoakum was renovated(or some other reason). The 1937 directory shows Max Westheimer at 1404 Chenevert Apt 4
The 1922 directory and his death certificate show the address as 4018 Yoakum, which would better match the concept of a mansion than an apartment. The Yoakum address is now part of St Thomas University. Westheimer's widow's estate sold the property to St Thomas in 1970. She died in 1967. The Yoakum property was pretty big, 150x150
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8 hours ago, strickn said:
You might also look up how Holmes Road-Griggs Road connected to Ship Channel area suburbs, parkways and ferry crossings, back before even the Washburn and Baytown Tunnels were opened 70 years ago.
Prior to the Baytown Tunnel being opened, drivers would take a causeway from the extension of Lee Drive through the Goose Creek oil field to Hog Island, then take a ferry to Morgan's Point. The pilings for the causeway were still in place in this 1978 aerial. I've seen a website where someone explored Hog Island and found some remnants of the ferry landing and such. I'll see if I can find it again. Here's some stories from the Baytown newspaper https://ourbaytown.com/hogisland.htm
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Get yourself an antenna for your TV. About 100 channels, and the quality is better than the compressed crap you get with cable. We use a Mohu Leaf that we've had for over 10 years, when we dropped cable. Works great.