Briargrove, Houston, Texas

Briargrove is a neighborhood in Houston, Texas, United States, near Uptown Houston.

Briargrove was established in the 1950s with one-story ranch homes built in the 1950s and 1960s." [http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=2004_3731382 Neighborly feel draws families to Briargrove] ." "Houston Chronicle".] Deed restrictions in the neighborhood were modified in 1986 to allow for one and one half-story and two-story homes.Fact|date=April 2008 Afterwards some of the older ranch homes were torn down and replaced with newer two story homes.

Government

Federal and state representation

Briargrove is in Texas's 7th congressional district [http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/images/preview/congdist/tx07_109.gif] .

Fire service

Houston Fire Department operates Station 2 at 5880 Woodway at Chimney Rock [http://www.houstontx.gov/fire/firestations/station2.html] , across from Tanglewood Park.

Police service

The neighborhood is served by the Houston Police Department's District 18 Patrol Division. [" [http://www.houstontx.gov/police/contact/images/hpd_beat_map.pdf Beat Map] ." "City of Houston".]

Education

Public schools

Briargrove's public schools are operated by Houston ISD. Briargrove is zoned to Briargrove Elementary School [" [http://dept.houstonisd.org/ab/schoolboundarymaps/BriargroveES.pdf Briargrove Elementary Attendance Zone] ." "Houston Independent School District".] and [http://ms.houstonisd.org/gradyms Grady Middle School] . [" [http://dept.houstonisd.org/ab/schoolboundarymaps/GradyMS.pdf Grady Middle Attendance Zone] ." "Houston Independent School District".]

Briargrove residents are zoned to Lee High School [" [http://dept.houstonisd.org/ab/schoolboundarymaps/LeeHS.pdf Lee High School Attendance Zone] ." "Houston Independent School District".] and may choose to attend Lamar High School or Westside High School. [http://web.archive.org/web/20050509100740/hs.houstonisd.org/leehs/home2.htm Home Page] as of May 9, 2005. "Lee High School".]

Residents of the Briargrove Elementary School attendance zone may apply for the [http://es.houstonisd.org/briarmeadowes/ Briarmeadow Charter School] . [" [http://es.houstonisd.org/briarmeadowEs/parentInfoRegistration.html Registration] ." "Briarmeadow Charter School".]

The T.H. Rogers School, an alternative K-12 school for gifted and talented students, deaf students, and multiply impaired students, is nearby Briargrove. In 1982 T. H. Rogers, which previously served as a neighborhood middle school, was converted into a magnet school due to low enrollment. Uptown residents were rezoned to Revere Middle School, but complaints from neighborhood parents that stated that Revere was too far resulted in the re-opening of Grady as a middle school in 1992. [Markley, Melanie. " [http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=1991_821583 Middle school to open in Briargrove area/Building once was Grady Elementary] ." "Houston Chronicle". November 10, 1991.] [" [http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=1993_1161003 HISD meets opposition to planned school] ." "Houston Chronicle". October 23, 1993.]

Public school gallery

Private schools

[http://www.stmichaelcs.org/ St. Michael School] , a Roman Catholic K-8 school that is a part of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, is in the area [http://www.archgh.org/SchoolPages/schoolpages-new/stmichael-houston.htm] . Two Catholic high schools, Strake Jesuit College Preparatory and St. Agnes Academy, are located in Sharpstown, south of Uptown.

[http://www.alhadi.com/index.shtml Al-Hadi School] of Accelerative Learning, a private K-12 Islamic school, is in the area.

Other nearby private schools include St. John's School in Houston and The Kinkaid School in Piney Point Village.

Public libraries

The Houston Public Library Jungman Branch is in the area.

Parks

The city of Houston operates the Tanglewood Park at 5801 Woodway [http://www.houstontx.gov/parks/images/NeighborhoodRevList3.gif] and the Grady Park at 1700 Yorktown [http://www.houstontx.gov/parks/images/NeighborRev2List2.gif] .

Media

The "Houston Chronicle" is the area regional newspaper.

The " [http://www.westuexaminer.com/memorial Memorial Examiner] " is a local newspaper distributed in the community [http://www.westuexaminer.com/about_us/] .

Community information

The closest first-run movie theater is the Edwards Theatres Grand Palace 24.

The closest YMCA to Briargrove is the Post Oak YMCA.

ee also

References

External links

* [http://www.briargrove.org/ Briargrove]
* http://www.heritagetexas.com/neighborhoods/briargrove.htm