Architect Harold Calhoun designed this striking Bauhaus-influenced home for stockbroker Lee Allen in 1937, taking inspiration from the architecture of the 1933 Century of Progress exposition in Chicago. New owners carried out a thorough restoration in the early 2000s, returning the Allen House to its original appearance while preserving historic features including some of the original furniture.

This modest 1937 home is one of a few surviving original Southside Place houses. Originally built for electric company manager Fred Gray and occupied by his family for decades, the home had fallen into disrepair by the time the current owners purchased it in the mid-1990s. They began a one-year project in 2007 that restored the historic part of the house while creating much-needed living and bedroom space in a sympathetic rear addition.

Architect Lars Bang designed this distinctive modern home in 1953, basing his work on Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s influential 1929 Barcelona Pavilion. Though the house was featured in Good Housekeeping magazine and on a 1957 tour of Houston modern architecture, later owners made insensitive alterations that dimmed the brilliance of the original design. Fortunately, new owners took the house back to its early 1950s appearance (and then restored it again after the property flooded in Hurricane Harvey).

Architects Moore & Lloyd designed this distinguished Colonial Revival home in 1939 for prolific developer and homebuilder C.C. Rouse, who sold it in 1940 to dairy executive Alfred Reidel. By the time the current owners purchased the house in 2019, it was suffering from decades of deferred maintenance. They restored the original details while updating the house for modern living and reversing some unsympathetic alterations made in the 1990s.

The 1894 Mansfield House, built by the original development group behind Houston Heights, is one of the neighborhood’s landmarks and is known to many Houstonians as the longtime residence of preservationist Bart Truxillo. New owners began a year-long restoration in 2019, taking care to use salvaged historic materials wherever possible and basing every decision on meticulous research into the architecture of the Victorian period.