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New Listings: Where the Mid-Century Moderns Are
A three-bedroom, two-bath, 2700-square-foot house on a cul-de-sac. A half-acre, wooded, park-like lot. Overlooking the bayou. Designed by Houston’s own Frank-Lloyd-Wrightian architects, MacKie &...
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Wright Style: A Long View in Sugar Creek
This low-slung sorta Usonian-style home mounted between the Sugar Creek and Riverbend country clubs in Sugar Land was built in 1975 by and for Houston builder H.A. Lott, known for his work...
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OMG Mod Begone: Sugar Land’s Lott House Meets Its Wrecking Crew
Yes, it looks like demo equipment has already arrived in the driveway of the MacKie and Kamrath house in Sugar Creek featured a little less than a year ago on Swamplot. The home was originally built...
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Remaining Houston Mods To Star in Their Own Movie
The director of a recent documentary about the late architect and educator Samuel Mockbee says he’s already received pledges for about half the money he thinks he and his production team will need to...
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Battle Over Swank Sugar Land Supermod Won By Komatsu Excavator
Courtesy of a Swamplot reader who spied the wreckage, we now have photo confirmation that the recently renovated former home of Astrodome builder H.A. Lott, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright devotee Karl...
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Ball of Mangled Steel Slowly Taking Place of Noted Sugar Land Mod
A reader sends us this latest photo (at bottom, with close-up) of the ongoing smashing and crushing action at the former home of Astrodome builder H.A. Lott on Sugar Creek Blvd. in Sugar Land. The...
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M.D. Anderson Planning To Extract Dental Branch from Med Center
The 1955 building Houston architects MacKie and Kamrath designed (along with several later additions) for the University of Texas Dental Branch will be removed from its home at the corner of MD...
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“MacKie and Kamrath seem to be winning the award for most demolished landmark buildings in the last 18 months. . . .” [Matt, commenting on M.D. Anderson Planning To Extract Dental Branch from Med Center]
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Not Yet Ruined by Updates, This MacKie and Kamrath Mod in River Oaks Is Yours...
The craggy terrain backing Buffalo Bayou in River Oaks near the neighborhood’s decorative gates at Shepherd Dr. sprouted several Usonian-design inspired homes by the architecture firm of MacKie &...
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Midcentury Mod Former Exxon Office on Buffalo Spdwy. Slowly Disappearing from...
Here’s a view from late last week of the back of former Exxon Upstream Research facility at 3120 Buffalo Spdwy., as crews continue their demolition magic. Transwestern Development and Spear Street...
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Comment of the Day: The Only MacKie and Kamrath Homes Left on the Tiel Way Loop
“. . . My husband and I drove around Tiel Way after the storm to check on all the MacKie and Kamraths. There were several homes on the street that flooded — and not just by a few inches but into their...
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