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Garden Villas is a subdivision in Houston, Texas, United States. Garden Villas is north of Hobby Airport on the banks of Sims Bayou. The lots range from one-half acre to over 2 acres (8,100 m2). Most homes in the 876-acre (3.55 km2) subdivision were built in the 1930s and 1940s, but construction continued through the 1950s, and the area was largely built out by the end of the decade. There are a few homes that were built in the 1980s and even the late 1990s. W.T. Carter, Jr., a River Oaks developer, platted Garden Villas in 1926 and planted nearly 6,000 pecan trees in the neighborhood. An Englishman and Rice Institute graduate, Edward Wilkinson, worked as the staff architect of Garden Villas. The neighborhood was platted before the city purchased the land now occupied by Hobby Airport. In 2010 the Houston Press ranked Garden Villas as one of the "The Five Most Underrated Neighborhoods In Houston." The W.T. Carter Lumber & Building Co. built the houses under the supervision of staff architect Edward Wilkinson. Fox said that the original Garden Villas houses were "not architecturally sophisticated" but that they were "quite recognizable, especially a one-story type with an arched front porch lintel supported on columns." A 1926 advertisement from the subdivision developers described one of Garden Villas's houses as a "ranch house type." This is the first known use of the term in Greater Houston. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_Villas,_Houston en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_... |
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| Author | Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA |
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