Before the coronavirus, when the bars and restaurants along White Oak Drive were packed and parking would overflow onto nearby streets, people who stumbled upon Wayne Braun’s home would stop and stare.
The house, a single-story contemporary clad in glass, siding and masonry blocks, stands apart from the bungalows and skinny townhomes around it.
One late night, a curious young couple ambled up to the house, peering through the glass door and into a front patio where orange outdoor chairs encircled a fire pit matching a cutout in the ceiling above it.
“This is dope,” said the man, whose reaction was caught on Braun’s security camera. He repeated himself as he and his companion walked back to their car.
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“‘My house is dope’ kind of became the anthem shortly after I moved in,” said Braun, an architect now retired from a large downtown firm.
The 3,000-square-foot home is made up of three modular sections that were fabricated in a warehouse in Navasota and assembled on Braun’s 6,250-square-foot lot just west of Studemont. The modules were placed around a central courtyard.
The house was a development project of Evolution Building Systems, a local company formed by husband and wife architects Rame and Russell Hruska.
Braun bought the lot in 2014 from a builder who was going to put a spec house on it but got cold feet. He moved in about a year ago.
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He moved from a quiet street in the Museum District because he wanted to live in a neighborhood where he could walk to a multitude of establishments.
The house backs up to the commercial businesses on White Oak, which has seen tremendous change in recent years. One of the most jarring changes was the demolition of the historic Fitzgerald's music hall. The century-old building sold in 2018 to an investment group led by Jesse Levine, who has been planning an automated parking garage at the site.
“I designed the house knowing I wasn’t ever going to be sure what was going to be built around me or at the corner,” Braun said of the former Fitzgerald’s site. “That’s why I kind of isolated the courtyard.”
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