The Cohen House in Meyerland has drawn national attention once again - it was featured in the National Trust's Preservation Online in early December and now has been picked up by Architectural Record. It was also the subject of Lisa Gray's mid-November column in the Houston Chronicle, and our own building watch and obituary. The article sums up the history of the house and its ownership - how Bob Cohen built his dream home, moved......

In October of last year the (Silver Dollar) Jim West mansion was sold to Olajuwon Farms (the bucolic name of Hakeem's land management company). After sifting through archives, though, Linda Sansing, a teacher in Clear Creek ISD and co-founder of Preserved in Time (a nonprofit to help raise awareness of the West mansion), found a deed restriction that may prevent any tampering with the mansion until July of 2012. The Greater Houston Preservation Alliance's David......

This historic mansion on 3303 E. NASA Parkway was designed by Joseph Finger and built for publisher and oilman James Marion West in 1929. His son, "Silver Dollar" Jim West, Jr., was known for his offbeat way of tipping (well) with silver dollars. This mansion is an important piece of architecture because it is the only remaining intact residence of the West family, and it is a rare example of a "great 1920s country......