Tanglewood, Houston, Texas

Tanglewood is a neighborhood in Houston, Texas.

Tanglewood is located outside of the 610 Loop and inside Beltway 8 in the Uptown Houston area. Tanglewood was developed in the 1950s by the Tanglewood Corporation. Today the neighborhood is managed by the Tanglewood Homes Association.

Among its residents are former President of the United States George H. W. Bush and his wife Barbara, although their summer home in Kennebunkport, Maine is better known.

William G. Farrington developed Tanglewood, which opened in 1949. Its original homes included "rambling Ranch" homes. Newer homes replaced some older homes beginning in the 1980s. [" [http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=2003_3640010 Bigger houses transforming neighborhood] ." "Houston Chronicle".]

Government

Federal and state representation

Tanglewood is in Texas's 7th congressional district. [" [http://nationalatlas.gov/printable/images/preview/congdist/tx07_109.gifCongressional District 7] ." "National Atlas of the United States".]

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".]

The neighborhood is also served by the Tanglewood Patrol. The patrol hires off-duty Houston Police officers, who drive marked Tanlgewood Patrol cars and have full police powers. [ [http://www.tanglewoodhomes.org/security.htm SECURITY PATROL] ." "Tanglewood".]

Education

Public schools

Tanglewood's public schools are operated by Houston ISD. Tanglewood is zoned [" [http://www.margiekaplanhomes.com/content/article.html?id=99573 Tanglewood Facts & Map] ." "Tanglewood".] to Briargrove Elementary School [" [http://dept.houstonisd.org/ab/schoolboundarymaps/BriargroveES.pdf Briargrove Elementary Attendance Zone] ." "Houston Independent School District".] (in Briargrove) 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".] . The land that Grady Middle School sits on was donated by a Tanglewood developer. High school students 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 Schools. [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 Tanglewood. 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] .

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

Strake Jesuit College Preparatory and St. Agnes Academy are in the Sharpstown area, south of Tanglewood.

Other nearby private schools include St. John's School in the Upper Kirby district of Houston and The Kinkaid School in Piney Point Village.

Public libraries

The closest library branch is the Jungman Library of the Houston Public Library.

Media

The "Houston Chronicle" is the area regional newspaper.

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

[http://www.tanglewoodbuzz.com "The Tanglewood Buzz"] is a monthly magazine mailed free of charge to all residents.

Community information

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] .

The closest first-run movie theaters are the Edwards Theatres Grand Palace 24, Edwards Theatres MarQ*e Stadium, and the AMC Theatres Studio 30

The closest YMCA is the Post Oak YMCA.

Real Estate

A walk around Tanglewood quickly reveals an active realty market, with many original 1950s and '60s ranch-style homes being replaced by new custom homes. The neighborhood contains roughly 1200 single-family residences in 11 recognized subdivisions. The average assessed tax values of homes in these neighborhoods varies from around $500,000 to $1,500,000. Tanglewood's desirability, coupled with Houston's healthy economy, have driven Tanglewood home prices considerably higher in recent years, in spite of a general downturn in the American residential property market. Average per-square-foot sales prices have increased over 50% since 2004, from around $200/square foot to nearly $350/square foot in 2007.

References

External links

* [http://www.tanglewoodhomes.org/ Tanglewood Homes Association]
* [http://www.tanglewoodcorp.com/home.html Tanglewood Corporation]
* [http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=1994_1229742 Tanglewood's tale had a slow start] - "Houston Chronicle"