The Heights, Rice Military to Independence Heights

Houston Heights was laid out from 1892 by the Omaha and South Texas Land Company under Oscar Martin Carter, one of the first planned communities in Texas, on high ground beside White Oak Bayou. It incorporated in 1896, and in 1918 its residents voted to join Houston. Independence Heights, to the north, incorporated on 25 January 1915, the first Black city in Texas to incorporate on the Houston Post's account at the time, and was annexed on 26 December 1929. Oak Forest was begun in 1947 by Frank Sharp's company, with almost all of its first houses sold to World War II veterans, and Rice Military takes its name from Camp Logan, the army camp that became Memorial Park, and from the Rice family that owned the land. 4 guides are listed below.

Two rules decide more here than elsewhere. Four City historic districts sit inside the area the Houston Heights Association files, and in them a certificate of appropriateness is needed before new construction, demolition or an exterior alteration. And much of the Heights kept a ban on selling alcohol that it adopted in 1912 for more than a century: voters let grocery stores sell beer and wine in 2016 and ended the rest of the ban in 2017, so an older listing or article that describes the dry zone is out of date. Outside the historic districts a street is governed by its deed restrictions where they survive and by the City's subdivision rules where they do not, so the restrictions recorded on the exact lot, and whether they have lapsed, are worth reading before the offer.