The corner’s first appearance in the Houston press had nothing to do with architecture. In September 1908 the Chronicle reported a wolf raiding a henhouse here, with eighteen hens “pulled from the roost and eaten.”
Twenty-two years later the same lots held a $110,700 marble-trimmed temple. Every landmark starts somewhere.
The source
Houston Chronicle, Sept. 1, 1908: “Makes War on Chickens,” a wolf or wild dog in the Heights; at “the corner of eleventh and Harvard streets … 18 hens were pulled from the roost and eaten” (a digitally restored copy).
