Avalon Place (Houston, TX)
By Steven Teoh, Los Angeles South Bay, Palos Verdes
(West Shores Realty)
Avalon Place -One of Houston's Most Expensive Subdivision.Inner Loop, Upper Kirby, River Oaks History of Avalon Place(Transcribed by Tommy Dickey from taped interviews with his father.)My grandfather, Dr. William Thomas Dickey, came to Houston in the 1880's from Virginia. He was the proprietor and resident physician of the Heights infirmary in 1889. In 1890 he bought 460 acres of land in West Houston. The land extended 1,000' each side of what is now Kirby Drive, and ran north from almost Richmond Avenue to Buffalo Bayou. The price was $60 an acre. "When the debt load became burdensome, he sold off 300 acres of the low land, (River Oaks addition from San Felipe north to Buffalo Bayou (Lazy Lane, Del Monte, Inwood, etc.)." My dad, William M. Dickey, graduated from TCU with a BBA in 1933...
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