The house I photographed for yesterday’s magnetic poem is located in the Heights (Houston Heights) and is a Victorian Stick/Eastlake House designed by Tennessee architect George F. Barber. Just shy of 3000 square feet, it sits on several acres on Heights Boulevard. It was built for the family of H. F. MacGregor in 1893, but in 1898 was purchased by John Milroy, one of the founders (and later an eight-term mayor) of the Heights. Of the seventeen original houses built for founding families, only three remain. The house is a Registered Texas Historical Landmark and is privately owned.
Oh, how excellent!
Isn’t it an amazing house?
Love that wrap-around front porch. We have a similar house I can see a block off my bus route that is slowly being allowed to deteriorate. I’d get off the bus and take a picture, but I wouldn’t want to walk alone in that neighborhood. The houses are all former one family mansions that were adapted for multi-family use.
It’s a shame to let those houses fall into ruin. They were almost always well-constructed, so it takes total neglect for them to fall apart that way.