MEDICAL CENTER AREA
The Med. Center (as Houstonians refer to it), has many surrounding residential areas with beautiful homes and scenery, making them popular choices for professors, students and health-care professionals, as well as for families. These include:
West University Place
Small town charm, superb educational and athletic opportunities for children and highly regarded city services wait just outside each front door in this city-within-a-city. Add to all this The Village shopping center with its stylish retailers and flavorful restaurants and a West U home becomes a prized possession.
Southside Place
Surrounded by West U, is this incorporated city of 400-plus homes, where slightly larger lots accommodate some of today's most stylish residential architecture.
Southampton
Southampton carefully preserves its enviable appeal as a premier family neighborhood and is justifiably proud of its fine park and lifestyle.
Boulevard Oaks
Families, academics and professionals favor its atmosphere, which is both eclectic and aristocratic.
The Museum District
The mature neighborhoods nearest the university give and take their unique character from the many cultural institutions with which they coexist: museums, parks, planetarium, zoo and Rice University. The world-renowned Texas Medical Center is another donor to the area's vibrant life. The Museum District presents a generous choice of homes in some of Houston's most historic addresses:
Shadyside
Originally designed in 1916 "for a few congenial friends and neighbors," the 18 properties behind its gates bespeak dignity combined with discretion.
Shadowlawn
A single, secluded street hosting some of the most beautiful examples of residential design.
Broadacres
An historic district with classic mansions and manicured lawns.
Southgate
Bordering Rice University campus, Southgate's civic spirit and deed restrictions are twin guards of the shaded streets that meander past its homes.
Bellaire
Executives are discovering career and child rearing can achieve proper balance within this revitalized "City of Homes."
