sevfiv Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 I saw this permit, but didn't know it was a Staub estate (via Swamplot and HAR): http://swamplot.com/stabbing-the-staub-she.../#comment-19976 http://search.har.com/engine/dispSearch.cf...s=1&sTYPE=0 http://i42.tinypic.com/2iw4j1f.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KinkaidAlum Posted February 16, 2009 Share Posted February 16, 2009 This is unbelievable. What an incredible waste. I am amazed on a daily basis what is sold "as is," "for lot value," or "live in now and build later." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domus48 Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Ever wonder what a $5M tear-down would look like... here's your chance:http://search.har.com/engine/dispSearch.cf...s=1&sTYPE=0More info at:http://swamplot.com/stabbing-the-staub-she...2-16/#more-6466 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenH Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 It won't be the first recent one...the Detering house at 1000 River Bend was torn down not too long ago. It was a Staub rancher. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylejack Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 There's a thread about this from yesterday, FYI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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marmer Posted February 17, 2009 Share Posted February 17, 2009 Not a Staub, but a Briscoe, but similar in style and age -- wasn't there a small outcry when someone tore down Mike Hogg's Dogwoods house on Lazy Lane in the last few years? And seems like I heard that Staub's Harry Clay Hanszen house has been so extensively altered that it's no longer recognizable. Edit: I should have searched first. Dogwoods was the Judge Frederick Proctor house next door to Bayou Bend, later owned by Mike Hogg and then by the Mike Stude family. It was designed by Birdsall P. Briscoe and torn down by a former Enron trader in 2005. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted February 20, 2009 Author Share Posted February 20, 2009 I was in the area after dark (and it was dark), but the deed has been done.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheeats Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 What a hideous waste. Ugh. Houston, why must you make it so hard for me to love you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marmer Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 What a hideous waste. Ugh. Houston, why must you make it so hard for me to love you? Amen to that, sister. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted February 20, 2009 Author Share Posted February 20, 2009 Oh, and this was the house he built for Robert A. Mosbacher (who sold it to Giorgio Borlenghi in March 1979, who sold it to ALV Interests. Ltd. in October 2007).More on Borlenghi here: http://interfin.com/ManageDetail/CDetail_P...x?contentid=486ALV Interests also recently bought the Gerhard Wurzer Gallery at 1217 S. Shepherd.Here's an excerpt from Howard Barnstone's The Architecture of John F. Staub: The style of the Mosbacher house is best described as as a cross between an American Georgian house and a Louisiana plantation house. The shuttered windows and shingled dormers recall the former, the slender brick piers and colonnades the latter. Staub introduced an irregularly spaced rear colonnade and Chippendale-like woodwork in lieu of conventional balusters. The colonnade, once carried along the entire rear elevation of the house, has since been abruptly terminated by the addition of an enclosed sitting room. In the front, Staub sought to vary the symmetry of the principal mass by placing the main entrance one bay off-center.Grantor: MOSBACHER ROBERT ADAM ETAL Grantee: BORLENGHI GIORGIO Date: 19790306 Type: W/D Desc:SHERWOOD FST Section:0D Lot:L0007 Grantor: BORLENGHI GIORGIO ETAL Grantee: ALV INTERESTS LTD Date: 20071002 Type:W/D Desc:SHERWOOD FOREST Section:0D Lot:L0007Not sure what ALV Interests is, but this is from the SEC and Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts:ALV INTERESTS, LTD.Amy Vaughan KingAmy Vaughan King, PresidentAmy Lynn Vaughan Interests, LLCGeneral PartnerAMY V KING300 WEST AUSTINMARSHALL, TX 75670 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted February 20, 2009 Author Share Posted February 20, 2009 And now the HAR listing has changed - no interior photos anymore, and this is the text:A long private drive leads to this fabulous 3+ acre lot located in the heart of exclusive Sherwood Forest. The heavily treed grounds create a beautiful park-like setting backing to a tributary of Carter Lake. This is truly a rare opportunity to create the estate of your dreams.Also, the exterior photo of the home that is still on the listing has this description:A long private drive leads to this fabulous 3+ acre lot located in the heart of exclusive Sherwood Forest. Photo shows previous home no longer in existence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
infinite_jim Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 Too bad they already demo'd a dream house for many of us. Can you imagine folks of our value set in 50 years lamenting the lose of whatever will be built on this property? I can hear the slogan already.. "Save the McMansions!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronTiger Posted March 1, 2009 Share Posted March 1, 2009 The HAR listing says there is three stories and three fireplaces, with dishwasher, disposal, compactor, and east entrance but no HVAC, bedrooms, or bathrooms. What did the house have originally?EDIT: 500 grand for the lot? Wow... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted March 1, 2009 Author Share Posted March 1, 2009 ^Maybe just a sloppy listing with old information they forgot to take out. And that's 5 million for the lot...not 500k Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronTiger Posted March 1, 2009 Share Posted March 1, 2009 ^Maybe just a sloppy listing with old information they forgot to take out. And that's 5 million for the lot...not 500kYou're right...it was 5 million (I was trying to use the K, so that would be....50k?)Still though, 5 million for the lot alone is a ton of money that I don't have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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