Today, Preservation Texas named five Houston-area sites to its list of 2007's Most Endangered Places in the state: the River Oaks Shopping Center, River Oaks and Alabama theaters, the West Mansion in Clear Lake, the Capitan Theater in Pasadena and unprotected neighborhoods in Galveston. This year's list focuses on historic movie theaters, but all the sites made it for a reason — unfortunately: All of them are in imminent danger of being lost through demolition or neglect. We figured this would be a good time to introduce you to the local endangered sites you don't know about and update you on the ones you do:
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Like most red-blooded American teenagers men, Houstonist has a bit of a fascination with explosions. That doesn't mean we're going to go out and cause one, mind you, but we're often interested by them. And now that we've made you think we're pyromaniacs, here's some news: A house in River Oaks exploded and burned this morning; fortunately, neither of the occupants was killed. Firefighters arrived at the house at South Shepherd and Chilton shortly after...
Things are hard in River Oaks these days: first there was the rat problem, and then early this morning, a police chase ended in one of the residents' front yards. The chase stared around 2:30 a.m. near West Dallas and Columbus when the suspect ran a red light and nearly hit a deputy sheriff's car head-on. When police gave chase, the suspect led them through Montrose and River Oaks for about 15 minutes, finally ending...
About 350 people turned out yesterday to hear Houstonians tell the Metro board what they think about the route of the proposed University light rail line, and the message was a resounding "We're not sure what we think." Metro's plan to run most of the line along Richmond Avenue rather than Westpark, as originally proposed, has drawn concern and continued to do so Thursday: Whatever the board decides late this year, it should "keep the...
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