Architects Mark Wamble and Dawn Finley spanned the back of a lot enclosed by the concrete sound barrier of U.S. 59 with a crisp, two-story live-and-work house clad in metal siding. The open ground floor (the work and service sector) and the deep setback of the extended front yard make the house seem like a garden pavilion.
Gerald Moorhead et al., "Forty-Eight Foot House", [Houston, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-01-HN35.
Buildings of Texas: Central, South, and Gulf Coast, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013, 340-340.
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