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It encompasses approximately 2000 homes in the 77009 ZIP code and is bounded on the north by Pecore Street, on the west by Studewood Street, on the east by I-45, and on the south by I-10. When platted in 1907 by William A. Wilson , the neighborhood was a 20-minute streetcar ride north of downtown via Houston Avenue.
Briargrove is a neighborhood in Houston, Texas, United States, near Uptown Houston. Briargrove was established in the 1950s with one-story ranch homes built in the 1950s and 1960s. [1] Deed restrictions in the neighborhood were modified in 1986 to allow for 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story and two-story homes. Afterwards some of the older ranch homes were ...
The Sunnyside Storefront Station is located at 3511 Reed Road. [38] The Houston Fire Department Station 55 Sunnyside is near Sunnyside at 11212 Cullen Boulevard at Selinsky Road. The station is within Fire District 46. [39] The station opened in 1963 in what was then the southeasternmost area in the Houston city limits.
Mount Houston is a community in north central Harris County, Texas. It is east of U.S. Highway 59, near the Dyersdale oil field. [1] Mount Houston was established along the Houston, East and West Texas Railway. At that time it was 10 miles (16 km) away from Houston. A post office opened in 1910. In 1914 Mount Houston had 100 people.
Glenbrook Valley was developed from 1953 to 1962. [1] Hare and Hare, architects from Kansas City, Missouri, designed the community for Fred McManus, the developer. [2]The first section opened in 1954; the original six homes were featured in the 1954 "Parade of Homes," a program sponsored by the Greater Houston Builders Association.
Sharp donated a 300-foot-wide strip of land through the development to the state of Texas for construction of the Southwest Freeway (Interstate 69/U.S. Highway 59).This routing ensured easy access from Downtown Houston to homes in the neighborhood, as well as to PlazAmericas (formerly Sharpstown Mall and Sharpstown Center) (1961), Houston's first air-conditioned, enclosed shopping mall.
A sign indicating the Westbury neighborhood. Westbury is a neighborhood in the Brays Oaks district of Southwest Houston, Texas, United States.It is located east of Bob White Road, north of U.S. Highway 90 Alternate (South Main Street), and west of South Post Oak Road, adjacent to the Fondren Southwest and Meyerland neighborhoods, just west of the southwest corner of the 610 Loop.
A sign indicating Meyerland Meyerland Plaza. Meyerland is a community in southwest Houston, Texas, outside of the 610 Loop and inside Beltway 8.The neighborhood is named after the Meyer family, who bought and owned 6,000 acres (24 km 2) of land in southwest Houston.