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Belgravia: The British Empire Strikes Back
Nineteenth-century British architect John Nash is apparently staging some sort of comeback in Gramercy Park. Here’s some of the marketing copy for the Belgravia, a 44-unit midrise condo building...
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Swamplot Price Adjuster: Blue Bonnet Spread
The Swamplot Price Adjuster needs your nominations! Found a property you think is poorly priced? Send an email to Swamplot, and be sure to include a link to the listing or photos. Tell us about the...
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Why Hank’s Ice Cream Is Closed This Week
There’ll be no butter pecan, vanilla, or creamed corn flavors available for the next few days at the southern end of the angled strip center at the corner of Murworth and South Main St. — for a period...
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Back from the Brink: An Ayrshire Redo
It was supposed to be a teardown, this almost-defiant home in Ayrshire. That’s what had happened to the original homes on either side of this still-single-story one, located on a cul-de-sac one house...
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How They Updated a Southern Oaks Mod
Renovated a year after Tropical Storm Allison, this glowing midcentury home plays up its mini-mod origins. The 1952 property is in the Southern Oaks neighborhood of Braeswood Place, located just off...
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Houston Home Listing Photo of the Day: The Back Carpet
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Trashing a 1970s Apartment Complex at Kirby and South Main for a New...
A handful of curious neighbors and passers-by have written Swamplot with reports that the Crossing at Kirby Apartments at 7600 Kirby Dr. are being cleared out. “It appears the whole complex is about...
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A ‘Bachelor Pad’ in Ayrshire Messes With the Market
The clipped front lawn of a 1950 home in Ayrshire might be its tidiest feature. “CURRENTLY A MESSY BACHELOR PAD BUT A QUICK REHAB WILL MAKE IT SHINE,” screams the description put up earlier this week....
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Apartments, or Maybe More, To Replace the Black-eyed Pea on Bellaire Blvd.
Here’s the variance sign (at right) that went up over the weekend at the intersection of Gramercy St. and Kilmarnock Dr., backing up to the power-line easement and ditch that separates the city of...
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A Single-Owner Fifties-Era Mod Just North of Brays Bayou
It’s a mod with original features still intact through and through. Attributed to architect Joseph Krakower and Herb Greene, a designer who worked in his office, the well-preserved and well-screened...
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Going Gray Suddenly at 61, a Braes Terrace Redo Aims for a $698K Flip
Up next: This 1953 ranchburger with modernized trimmings in Braes Terrace (top). Had you looked at this Buffalo Speedway corner lot property when it was listed in March (at right), you’d have found it...
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Fairhope Ranch Redo Aims for a Smaller Flip
As Swamplot reader Tawnya notes, the Braes Terrace ranchburger that emerged mid-August from a spring-and-summer redo sporting an almost-$700K asking price (it sold previously this past April for a far...
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On the Green in Cambridge Green, a Side-Winding Home Nears $1M
Don’t be fooled by the apparent symmetry at the entry (top). Once you’re inside the updated 1982 home in Cambridge Green, a mewsy subdivision just west of Kirby Dr. and south of W. Holcombe Blvd.,...
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Heavily Limbed, Hidden Braes Terrace Home Along the Bayou Asks $689K
Tended plantings have been a priority at a 1954 Braes Terrace property across from Brays Bayou’s southern banks and hike-and-bike trail. One cluster of trees near the sidewalk screens the updated home...
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Houston Home Listing Photo of the Day: Behind Door Number 3
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Starbucks Brewing at Former Gas Station Site on Brays Bayou
A pile of dirt is heaped up at the northeast corner of N. Braeswood Blvd and the West Loop feeder road this afternoon, next to a sign announcing the upcoming arrival of a Starbucks to the site. The...
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Monochromatic Mod on Brays Bayou Offers Glassy Spaces for Internal Reflection
White walls, glass walls, and mirrored walls provide ample opportunities for looking inward and outward from this 1958 house designed by Houston architect Arthur Steinberg. Overlooking Brays Bayou...
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