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A Meadowcreek Village Help-You-Sell
“SELLER WILL DO NO REPAIRS,” shouts the listing. But . . . um, visitors to this past Sunday’s open house did bring their own period furniture to dress up a brick flat-roofed Modern 4-bedroom in...
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Big Bungalowing a Meyerland Mod
Here are the after and before on a 1959 once-flat-roofed mod in Meyerland, 3 doors down from an entrance to St. Nicholas School, a block north of the tall power lines that parallel Willowbend Blvd. A...
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Kuhl-Linscomb Plans To Turn Googie Penguin Arms Apartments into Modern Home...
About a year after snatching up the Penguin Arms building at 2902 Revere St., Dan Linscomb and Pam Kuhl-Linscomb announce to the Chronicle‘s Lisa Gray their plans to incorporate Arthur Moss’s...
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Light and Dark in a Meyerland Mod
After a good life with its original owners, this well-draped and well-preserved 1961 Mod in Meyerland hit the market earlier this week, asking $625,000. The exterior’s contrast of light brick and dark...
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A Tight Mod in Barkley Circle, Ready for a Reboot
What’s a shed with barn doors doing in the yard of this modish house? Possibly standing in for a garage so detached that’s it’s flat-out gone. And so is half of the tall front hedge that once screened...
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The Century Built Home in Garden Oaks That Sold in About an Hour
Here’s the third of 4 houses designed by not-so-famous Houston architect Allen R. Williams in the 1940s and fifties, dubbed “Century Built” homes. If the name was intended to indicate how long the...
View ArticleComment of the Day Runner-Up: Y’all Come By Now, Y’hear?
“I am thankful for Ben’s research and for putting me in touch with Robert who had the right buyer for my Dad’s house. I have always loved this house and have great memories here. It’s where I learned...
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Lining Up the Water View From a Lake Conroe Contemporary
The ‘bay’ at this multilevel 1990 property in Walden on Lake Conroe is a 2-story space with a modern, multi-pane frame of the water. Photos of the vista-boosting room — and its contemporary decor —...
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In Memorial Bend, a Bang Up Job from Page Parkes’ Past
When last we visited this home at the western edge of Memorial Bend, built in 1958 from a design by noted Houston architect Lars Bang, the trees were a smidge shorter and the open-plan interior...
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Skyscaping a Meyerland MCM
It’s not a James Turrell skyspace, but an updated midcentury home in Meyerland incorporates skylights, transoms, and other architectural cutouts to have some fun with the light and shadows within and...
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Updating Glenbrook Valley’s Texan Americana
When showcased in the 1956 Parade of Homes, this Glenbrook Valley mod with desert-theme plantings (still in place) earned accolades for its forward-thinking children’s wing and U-shaped kitchen layout...
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Parading Through a Westbury Mod
It’s a square route through the entry of a modified 1960 Westbury mod, described in its listing on Tuesday as a giveaway prize from a bygone Parade of Homes. The interior plays up its remaining...
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