My name is Marilu De La Fuente. I'm the owner of the Mission Bungalow in the Forest Hill Subdivision.@1724 Alta Vista.
This note is for the person that wrote . . . "This is my favorite house in Houston, would love to see the inside. Please get in touch with. Office number 713-845-1223. Also, Animal House on Pasadena was used during WWI & WWII for Railroad Engineers and personnel as a stop over when passing through Houston. I know alot about my neighborhood. Also, it was to be the River Oaks of Houston that is why homes could not be built in less than an acre of land. The Houston Country Club site is now Gus Wortham Golf Course....
Please contact me if your are interested in knowing more ....Marilu
Forest Hill Info.
From Houston Architectural Guide- Second Edition
page 170
1724 Alta Vista Avenue
(1912) Cooke & Co.
The architect W. A. Cooke designed this expansive Mission bungalow, faced with stucco and red roof tiles, for his family. It is located in Forest Hill, planned in 1910 by the Kansas City landscape architects Hare & Hare as the first subdivision in Houston with a curvilinear street plan. Forest Hill was laid out across Brays Bayou from what was then Houston Country Club (now Gus S. Wortham Park). The Cooke House was one of three large houses built there; these did not presage Forest Hill's future, however, and during the 1920's they came to be surrounded by much more modest houses.
page 171
1766 Pasadena Avenue
(1911) Lang & Witchell
This Colonial Revival house was the largest built in Forest Hill. Designed in the Houston branch office of Dallas's most proliffic architects, it sits on a small hillock looking out to Brays Bayou.
Forest Hill Neighborhood Real Estate
in EaDo, the East End, and East Houston
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