Now you see it, now you don't: The Schauer Filling Station, a 1929 structure on the corner of Oxford and 14th Street in the Houston Heights, was demolished over the weekend, leaving a flat dirt lot where a historic landmark once stood.
The station, which had been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1983, was one of the first gas stations in the area.
A tipster tells Swamplot that two other houses on the property adjacent from JH Reagan High School are also soon to bite the dust — one is a 676-square-foot house dating to 1899, and the other is a 1,104-square-foot bungalow built in 1929 — to make way for a new construction for from the new owners.
This isn't the only historic Heights building to meet the bulldozer this summer. Demolition is expected to begin soon on two buildings belonging to the Baptist Temple Church and dating to 1912 and the 1940s to make way for a new restaurant and retail center near the 19th Street shopping district.
The Schauer Filling Station, a historic Heights landmark, was bulldozed over the weekend.
