One of the first planned suburbs in the state, Houston Heights has retained its architectural and civic identity to an unusual degree. This has been accomplished in spite of its location in one of the fastest growing cities in the United States. The Heights presents a Whitman's Sampler of turn-of-the-century architectural styles. Several notable late-Victorian mansions and substantial early 20th-century public, ecclesiastical, and commercial buildings serve as the anchors of the neighborhood. Nevertheless, the real strength of the Heights rests in its wide array of essentially vernacular, middle-class, and domestic architecture of the period 1893-1932.
1050 Heights Boulevard, c. 1930
John Milroy House, c. 1898; Stick/Eastlake
carriage house
Upchurch House, c. 1906; Queen Anne
Milroy-Muller House, c. 1895; Colonial Revival/Queen Anne
1648 Harvard Street, c. 1885; Queen Anne
Mansfield House, c. 1900; Stick/Eastlake
1812 Harvard Street, c. 1895
1809 Harvard Street, c. 1920
The Inkspots Museum, c. 1930 (birthplace of Huey Long)
Banta House, c. 1918; Craftsman/Bungalow
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I see you caught a piece of the road construction going on in the area. I'm not sure if it's still there ... but earlier this year they had some of the streets closer to Heights Boulevard tore up. At the edges, the construction revealed the layers under Heights Boulevard - I think you could even see brick/cobble stone. Kinda reminded me of looking at strata in geology.
Wow - I wish I could have seen that cobblestone. Interesting!
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