Thursday, June 26, 2025

Fox Hall Apartments (Houston, Texas)

Fox Hall Apartments was later spared from any right of way demolitions.

Originally appearing on Carbon-izer.com, Fox Hall Apartments at 8222 Kingsbrook Road has no direct access off of Katy Freeway but some of the buildings do abut it.

The history of Fox Hall Apartments is a little fuzzy in the early years. The apartment complex started out as Kingsbrook Apartments, though with only half of the ~300-unit complex Fox Hall would later have, though in 1967 the apartments did add 94 new units. Kingsbrook Apartments also had the address of 8255 Kingsbrook.

One of the first references for Fox Hall Apartments, then known as the Foxhall, comes in 1971. There are indications that Fox Hall Apartments was expanded to their current size during this time under new ownership, hence the new name and new project.

Tuesday, June 3, 2025

Schulenburg McDonald's (Schulenburg, Texas)

Street View a few years after it closed.
The Schulenburg McDonald's operated from 1996 to 2015, and as I said in a recent RetailWatchers post it appears that this restaurant was terribly run, and despite what looks like an update once in its 19-year history closed abruptly, removing McDonald's insignia and the playground but leaving most everything including the interiors untouched.

Check out the Carbon-izer report here.