Lindale Park Homes
Lindale Park Homes
I’m amazed at how many friends and clients I have who live inside the loop, or just outside, who know nothing about Lindale Park. It’s a charming 1940’s community that has maintained its uniqueness. It is just the other side of I-45 from the Heights, but a different world all together. See my Interactive Map of Neighborhoods for location.
This Lindale Park home looks like a small West U home.
Another typical cottage in Houston's Lindale Park
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Lindale Park History
In 1937, Mr. Roy Reid decided to develop a subdivision right next to the Lindale Golf Club. The well-planned community would last, unlike the golf course that would eventually be replaced by additional housing. Mr. Reid’s quaint bungalows and cottages still stand today, a credit to quality construction of the time. You will notice the trademark unusually wide streets, a novelty years ago, but so practical and appreciated in our time. While most Lindale Park homes were made of brick in a variety of textures and colors, there are also homes with stone veneer and of course wood framed homes.
Although certain house styles predominate in Houston’s Lindale Park, these aren’t cookie-cutter homes.
Detailed exterior brickwork, and arched interior doorways are common. The steeply pitched roofs and cropped eave cottages are most prevalent. This area has always reminded me of a downsized West U because of its wide streets and steeply pitched roof homes.
After World War II, ranch homes made their way into the community, sporting large window fronts and comfortable, neat appearances.
As you drive down Irvington, the main street in this development, you will appreciate the large well-manicured lawns.
This community seems to be making a more recent effort to “gentrify”. Some bigger homes are being constructed on double-size lots or even larger parcels of land. Some seem rather out of place within the community, but most have found a niche that seems quite fitting for their street and neighbors.
Graceful oaks and magnolia trees line the streets. They seem to invite you to get out for a leisurely stroll. As older neighborhoods do, Lindale Park’s large lots give a sense of spaciousness.
The homeowners could be classified as middle-class, but their interest in maintaining and developing their community is more than average. A community center is a permanent fixture within the development to encourage neighborhood activities as well as address any concerns that might arise. Lindale is a progressive, well-kept community that is poised to do very well.
People always ask my opinion on the next “Hot” area. It’s way too late to get a bargain bungalow in most of the Heights (although Brooke Smith remains the exception); Idylwood was discovered years ago; Oak Forest is booming, but has some decent prices. I used to tell people that Lindale Park would boom if it weren’t so isolated. There’s no reason for people to go through the area; there’s limited shopping; the nearest mall was scary. Well guess what?
Lindale Park Homes-Prices Should be about to Boom!
The old Northline Mall has been renovated (thus the dearth of shopping has been rectified), and the Metro has started construction on light rail. People flock to light rail! It will go along Fulton street and have a Graceland Station at Lindale park. This area has to boom! It would be doing so now if builders could get money. If you want a cute little house in a wonderful area and a huge upside, look at Lindale Park.
One caveat to above: The rail line construction has started, but everything about this project has been botched by the City. It again sounds promising, but it all depends on dreaded government, here and in DC. That really gives me confidence!
See my posts on Lindale Park.
Many of these close-in neighborhoods are difficult to understand and to value. Feel free to ask any questionjs you might have. Call Houston Heights Realtor Rich Martin. I specialize in Houston Heights homes and the surrounding inner-loop areas. Call today: 713 868-9008
