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In 1992 City of Houston employees repaved West Oaks Drive with a cost of $12,000 ($26054.54 in today's money), to anticipate Bush's arrival. [15] In December 1992 the Bush family announced that it was building a new house on the lot. [16] Edwin A. Eubanks was selected as the architect. Renaissance Builders was selected as the general contractor.
The James L. Autry House (Courtlandt Place, Houston), 5 Courtlandt Place, was a house designed and built for James Lockhart Autry, II by the Houston office of Sanguinet & Staats in 1912 (NRHP-listed). The house is still used as a residence and is NRHP-listed. Autry was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi in 1859 and moved to Texas in 1876.
The James L. Autry House was designed by Alfred C. Finn working under the commission of Sanguinet & Staats in 1912. The house is located at 5 Courtlandt Place, which is a private street in Houston. The house is next door to a greenhouse and tennis courts at 3 Courtlandt Place, a property that was developed at the same time as the main house. [1]
The Arthur B. Cohn House (also known locally as the "Blue House" [1]) is a property listed on the National Register of Historic Places located in downtown Houston.The house is now about a block away from its original location at 1711 Rusk Avenue to the 600 block of Avenidas de las Americas, adjacent to Daikin Park, and will shortly be moved to a former parking lot site at the corner of ...
The Texas World, a newspaper first published in 1900, is said to have labeled Houston "the Magnolia City", [20] but the nickname had been in use among the locals since the 1870s. [21] Areas of east Houston, particularly Harrisburg and Magnolia Park , were once natural Magnolia forests that were wiped out by urban sprawl by the 1920s.
Photo credit: John Daugherty Realtors For $5.9M, this nine-bedroom, 15-bathroom home can be yours.It sits on a pretty 6-acre lot overlooking the gorgeous Galveston Bay, right outside of Houston, TX.
In 1980, the family of Gus Sessions Wortham, a local businessman and philanthropist, donated his former house to the University of Houston System for use as the chancellor's residence. [10] The three-storey house, which sits on 1.82 acres (7,400 m 2 ) of land, was constructed by oilman Frank Sterling and was the most expensive in the ...
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