The invitations have been sent. The flowers are ordered, the final headcount turned into the caterers. Everything is ready for the Greater Houston Preservation Alliance dinner at the River Oaks Country Club (1600 River Oaks Blvd) at 7pm on February 1, 2008. If you have your ticket ($300 per person), you can walk right in, take your seat, and get ready for an evening of great architectural preservation.
One of the historic homes up for the Good Brick award is located at 1704 Kipling St. in Winlow Place, originally built 1930.
However, the man who is up for the award will not be at the gala. Ken Rice was sentenced to 27 months in prison for securities fraud related to the Enron collapse.
Architect Donna Kacmar describes the 1704 Kipling St. renovation on her website:
The house had stood vacant for over 20 years when the new owner invested in the area. The shiplap interior wall siding was removed and milled and then used to replace the oak flooring on the first floor that had been destroyed by termites. Some of the cabinet pieces were fabricated from the old door jambs. The existing doors and door hardware was refinished. New windows, new building systems, all new finishes, and new landscaping complete the transformation of the duplex into a single family residence with four bedrooms, four bathrooms and three living spaces that respects its past and its place in the neighborhood.
And the pictures do show a pretty little duplex:
Godspeed, Ken.
I wanted to find pictures of buildings to admire, and here I stumble upon one in my own backyard. I will have to drive by to check it out. Thank you.
Cara,
When you copy the point, the logical sequence, quotations, and all the photographs used in a blog post you found online — and then rewrite it using mostly your own words — it’s considered polite to provide a link back to the post you took all those things from:
Swamplot.com: Historic Preservation, Meet Self Preservation
http://swamplot.com/historic-preservation-meet-self-preservation/2008-01-30/
Gus, put on your big girl panties and quit whining. I didn’t copy anything at all – and the knowledge that Ken Rice was being honored with an award was posted on no less than three websites.