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Is the Weingarten House located down on S. MacGregor?

I think most of the UH campus faculty members who live in the area live in the houses off of N. MacGregor between Cullen and Calhoun, I think that section is called University Oaks? To show how university oriented that section is, they have a Faculty St.

I would be interested to see some old photos of the Riverside Terrace/Riverside area from its beginnings up through the 60's or 70's if anyone has them. I have done a search and my results have been quite minimal at best. Also, I heard that the land these houses sit on was once owned by the Kuhlman family. It was farmland for their dairy farm that was along the banks of Brays Bayou, not sure if it was on the north banks (Riverside Terrace) or south banks (Riverside) of the bayou. There is a Kuhlman St. and Kuhlman Gully in the area so I imagine there is some truth to that.

FYI, there is a phsychiatric rehabilitation building on McGregor & 288. The sign is quite blatant nothing to hide. Wonder if that scares area neighbors.

Oh heck yeah! I live quite close to that facility, and there have been escapes.

Check this photo out

http://www.cah.utexas.edu/db/dmr/image_lg....iable=e_bb_2644

It's of some cars that were in President Kennedy's motorcade from Hobby. I'm trying to determine where that photo was taken though. It looks familiar, but I can't put my finger on it.

Here's a small photo essay, all photos start westward and move eastward along the alignment. They were taken between December 24, 2005 and March 23, 2007.

Beginning in the Richmond vicinity just east of the Brazos River. Still very rural looking along this particular stretch.

Eastbound bridge over small creek, built in late 40's.

A look across the bridge shows one of the original bridges from around 1934. It was originally built to serve two way traffic in the highway's early days, now serving westbound traffic.

After we cross Highway 6, we enter Sugar Land. Here, a small section of pavement to handle 4 lanes in each direction has been laid down, but is only striped for two.

Here's some views of the 1934 bridge over Oyster Creek. The first photo was taken in October of 2006.

This photo was taken just last week. The bridge no longer carries traffic and will be demolished soon.

Looking towards the west in Sugar Land

Approaching US 59

Here's the new freeway section from last week. The westbound lanes were open by then, but the eastbound lanes were not opened up until earlier this week.

The S. Post Oak overpass pictured here has been complete and open to traffic since late last year I believe.

OST in Houston, newly repaved.

Produce Row Overpass, I'm guessing the road overpass was built in the late 50's or early 60's. The railroad bridge looks older though, possibly mid 30's?

I need to fill in some gaps, such as near the South Loop/Reliant area, and Stafford.

It would be nice to see them do that. After all, they do it on sections of the South Loop and SH225 to designate the Texas Independence Trail.

I was driving back from Richmond, TX today and decided to take the scenic route back to Riverside Terrace, that is to take U.S. 90A all the way back as if it is prior to 1961 and the SW Freeway has not been built. I'd taken the stretch last week to check out construction. From Richmond to Highway 6, the highway is still in its 4 lane divided configuration. Once you pass Highway 6, there's some construction going on to widen it to an 8 lane boulevard. Last week, westbound traffic was still using the original 1934 bridge over Oyster Creek in front of the old Imperial Sugar mill. Today, westbound traffic had been diverted to the newer late 1940's former eastbound bridge. Eastbound traffic was on a new structure over the creek. I assume the 1934 bridge is to be demolished soon, the plaques with the year it was built and other info had been removed (what the construction companies did with it, I don't know). There's a few s-curves between Ulrich Rd. and BW 8 diverting traffic onto and off of new and old pavement. It appears in Stafford they're making portions of it a freeway, I'd even heard rumors that they were going to put part of it into a trench at Kirkwood or something like that, it had to do with the railroad crossing as well. Once you pass Willowridge HS, you enter the oldest section of the S. Main/US 90A freeway completed in 1996. Last week, traffic was still on the feeder roads all the way to S. Post Oak. All lanes of the new freeway are open from Stafford to the South Loop. No more traffic lights and crossovers, just smooth sailing at 65 mph, a far cry from just 5 years ago. Passed under 610 and hit the 8 lane boulevard, moving pretty good, then curved onto the 6 lane portion of US 90A known as OST right into Riverside Terrace which is now nice and smooth with new asphalt thanks to TxDOT (took em long enough, over a year from old surface removal to repaving!)

The previous owner which was a fraternity added all that stuff to the house at first years ago. When they vacated it and moved on campus a few years ago, it was pretty run down, and looked unkept, pathetic looking. All the current owner did was come in, refurbish and remodel the whole house and kept the addons. With that fence around it, it looks very much like a "compound" rather than a family residence, though I know even with its strange looks the residents of this area would much prefer a quiet family residence than a loud fraternity anytime.

I know this thread is from 2005, but it appears construction on a new house is finally starting on that lot as of a few days ago.

Also, rps, which house on S. MacGregor are you referring to, I mean where is it located? I drive on S. MacGregor daily and I probably pass this house every day, I may even know the residents.