Southampton, Houston

[3] Around 2007 the company Buckhead Investment Partners Inc. proposed building a 23 story high rise building, called the Ashby High Rise, at a site at 1717 Bissonnet at Ashby.

Several residents of Southampton and Boulevard Oaks formed a task force intended to oppose the development, and they hired Rusty Hardin, an attorney, to help with the efforts.

"[1] Bill Merriman, an architect living in Southampton, said that the model of trees, which he described as orderly, was adapted to many newer master-planned communities such as First Colony in Fort Bend County.

The houses used side porches and used large wooden windows to help with cooling in the pre-air conditioning era.

[1] In 2001 the most inexpensive houses in Southampton were priced in the $300,000s (range beginning at $516218.76 in today's money).

[5] The original Southampton documents, established around 1925 set minimum prices for house constructions.

[1] In 2005 Allison Cook said "There's just more disposable income in Southampton, Houston, Broad Acres [sic] and storied Shadow Lawn than in Southgate".

The community has deed restrictions which require minimum set-backs from the street and prevent the establishment of businesses within the neighborhood's boundary.

Katherine Feser of the Houston Chronicle said the enforcement of the restrictions helped "maintain a consistent feel" in Southampton.

[15] The Southampton Civic Club failed to persuade HISD to build a new high school on a tract at Kirby and West Alabama.

Nearby is the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston's St. Vincent de Paul School.