![]() We used prefab cabinets to cut costs and inexpensive tiles to add color and contrast. Changes include replanning the deteriorated kitchens and bathrooms, which were awkwardly stuffed in narrow, enclosed porch spaces. The Witt House has an unusual, almost nine-square plan, which we decided to keep as intact as much as possible. They are good for the city because they allow for a gentle increase in density without the mass of stacked townhouses that are so disruptive to the few remaining, intact nineteenth-century inner-city neighborhoods in Houston, such as the Germantown historic district. ![]() Duplexes are sadly increasingly rare in Houston. From the city directories we learned it was converted to a duplex in 1958 by later owners and has remained so ever since. ![]() Witt in 1914 in the unplattted Grota Home addition. According to him, “the proponents of dynamic preservation encourage the retention of the best features an old-house has acquired with age, but permit the intelligent removal of discordant architectural notes and condone the construction of harmonious additions.”Īccording to Harris County deed records, this folk Victorian cottage was built as a single-family house for Ida and B. Preservationist Christopher Evers has termed this approach “dynamic preservation” in his now classic book on the subject, The Old-House Doctor (1986). The guiding principle was to do the smallest intervention and conserve as much of the existing building material as possible, including the battered aluminum siding, which is now part of its history. A careful rehabilitation of a duplex in the Germantown Historic District that had fallen into a rough state.
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