Woodward House
1605 Heights Blvd., Houston, TXUnique style for this area; very well preserved. The original owner, Emerson F. Woodward, took part in the: Houston-area oil boom of that era as vice president of Republican Petroleum Company, and president of Federal Petroleum Company. He was typical of the upper-class residents who settled on Heights Boulevard.
Local significance of the building:Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
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