This Old House featured 51 Best Old House Neighborhoods.  The list includes one neighborhood for each state + Canada....and they chose the Houston Heights in Texas!

It begins:

Houston Heights, Houston, Texas

Love living in small-town suburbia but occasionally long for the hustle and bustle of the city? Houston Heights might be the neighborhood you're looking for. Just a couple of miles from downtown Houston, this serene enclave features massively turreted Queen Annes along stately boulevards and comfy bungalows tucked away on quiet streets lined with expansive live oaks. Houston Heights was developed in 1886 as a "utopian" community by self-made millionaire Oscar Martin Carter and his Omaha and South Texas Land Company. The Houston Heights Association, a nonprofit devoted to preserving the nabe, is trying to hold on to Carter's vision by protecting against overdevelopment and bringing the community together with holiday home tours, craft markets, and fun runs.


See the entire article featuring the Houston Heights here:  http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/photos/0,,20283025_20634053,00.html


See all 51 neighborhoods here:  http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/info/0,,20286395,00.html

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