[3] "Courtlandt Place" denotes a residential boulevard, a subdivision, and a Historic District, all of which occupy the same location.

[4][5] The Courtlandt Improvement Association also established extensive deed restrictions which regulated house size, land use, and minimum building cost.

His Lovett Boulevard was blocked by a wall at the west end of Courtlandt Place, and he lobbied the City of Houston to condemn the private street in order to make it a public one.

[5] Notable architects who designed houses in the neighborhood included Birdsall Briscoe, Alfred C. Finn, John Fanz Staub, Carlos B. Schoeppl, Sanguinet & Staats, and Warren and Wetmore.

The C. L. "Baron" Neuhaus House at 6 Courtlandt Place was designed in the Colonial Revival style by Sanguinet & Staats for the local banker in 1910 (NRHP-listed).

His wife, Emilie "Millie" Joanna Boettcher Neuhaus (1861–1843), came from a family of Central Texas Germans, and she hired cooks who knew the food of this culture.

The Sterling Myer House at 4 Courtlandt Place (NRHP-listed) was another home built in 1910 by Sanguinet & Staats.

The A. S. Cleveland House at 8 Courtlandt Place (NRHP-listed) was built by Alfred C. Finn and Sanguinet & Staats in 1911.

The J.J. Carroll House at 16 Courtlandt Place (NRHP-listed) was built in the neoclassical style by Birdsall Briscoe in 1912.

Judson had worked as an executive for the Carter Lumber Company, but he is better known as an expert avocationist on regional ornithology, and won awards for his photography in the field.

He was an advocate for protecting coastal environments for birds, and was honored with the naming of Carroll Island, along the southern Texas coast.

Carter Sr. House at 14 Courtlandt Place was another Tudor-style home on the block that was designed by Birdsall Briscoe.

Will Carter continued to spend his time managing sawmill operations in Polk County, Texas, while maintaining a mansion on Main Street.

By this time, Carter owned several sawmills in East Texas, with banking and real estate interests in Houston.

In 1920, he moved into the Tudor home with his wife and their daughter, Frankie Carter Randolph, who also brought her family.

[10] Prior to her family locating in Courtlandt Place, Frankie Carter (1894–1972) attended the Baldwin School in Pennsylvania.

Aubrey, her older brother, matriculated at the University of Virginia during part of her time at the Baldwin School.

Prior to their union Deke served the United States Naval Air Corps in France.

In 1920, Deke and Frankie Randolph Carter moved their family to her parents’ home at 14 Courtlandt Place.

The J. W. Garrow House at 19 Courtlandt Place represents the third Birdsall Briscoe design in the neighborhood from 1914, this one a Colonial Revival/Beaux Arts hybrid.

He developed real estate in downtown Houston, including the Savoy Apartments, and the Dorrance building at 114 Main Street.

The Judson Taylor House at 20 Courtlandt Place (NRHP-listed) is the last of six works that Birdsall Briscoe completed in the neighborhood, a Colonial Revival finished in 1916.

Alfred C. Finn, this time commissioning residential work with his own firm, moved an 1890 Victorian structure to the site and added brick cladding to recreate it in a Spanish-mode.

The Murray B. Jones House at 22 Courtlandt Place is a stucco building with colonial elements, completed in 1925.

[3] Another source attributes the architectural work to Birdsall Briscoe, and characterizes the style as Georgian Revival.

[7] The Murray B. Jones House represents Courtlandt Place connections to an old-guard Houston family.

Murray Jones also had deep Houston roots, though with humbler origins through his grandfather, Isaac Brashear.

The Johnelle Bryan House at 15 Courtlandt Place is of an Italian Renaissance design by Carlos B Schoeppl, his only commission in the neighborhood, which he finished in 1925.

Joseph F. and Wadesha Bashara acquired the home in 1935, and like the previous owners, they used it as a venue for live music.

John Wilson "Judge" Parker (1861–1930) established his first law practice in Taylor, Texas before moving to Houston.