South Main Gardens Near 13000 South Main St.

[Highrise Tower]

Does anyone recall this residential? community located on South Main Street near Hillcroft Avenue? The subdivision was built in the 1950s. 

When typing in South Main Gardens into Google in present day, you get a residential neighborhood in Missouri City, TX. The present day neighborhood is located off Sam Houston Tollway.  I believe that is a whole different development.

Does anyone recall what school Helen Eisentower was speaking of? Maybe Westbury High School? Westbury is a few miles away from Hillcroft & South Main.

HISD Board meeting minutes - January 23, 1956

Letter from Helen Eisentower in South Main Gardens referred to Superintendent for Investigation.

Dear Sirs:

Do you fold have any jurisdiction over this school in South Main Gardens off 13000 block of South Main Street left? The children and mothers are up in arms about all the conditions out here.  I'm very much concerned and would like you to come out and interview some of these people, find out what can be done to improve this unrest.

Respectfully,

Helen Eisentower
Route 3, Box 55B

 

[hbcu]

Doubt it was westbury - probably this school

https://www.houstonisd.org/domain/6010

it was built in 49 and rebuilt in 1960 - 

[Dave W]

I don't know which school, but the present Missouri City neighborhood is the same South Main Gardens. The school could have been within HISD borders.

Missouri City was not yet incorporated at the time of the letter, it was incorporated later in 1956.