7607 Cayton St.

• year built: 1956
• architect/designer: Crochet & Carroll
• location: Glenbrook Valley section 9
• status: extant

From an advertisement for the 1956 Houston Parade of Homes brochure (thanks to GlenbrookValley.com):

You can live right in the city and feel that you’re out in the wide open spaces - that is, you can if you live in Builder Harold P. Hill’s ranch style home, ‘Ranch Masterpiece’ at 7607 Cayton Street.

Mr. Hill’s Parade home has all the rustic qualities of the ranch home you’d ordinarily find deep in the countryside. A rough cedar rail fence encircles the lot and cedar posts extend from the garage to the front porch.

7554 Cayton St.

This home appears to have been built with the front elevation facing the back of the lot.

• year built: 1956
• architect/designer: Crochet and Carroll
• location: Glenbrook Valley section 9
• status: extant

From an advertisement for the 1956 Houston Parade of Homes brochure (thanks to GlenbrookValley.com):

If you lived in Builder Ralph Lowe’s ‘all-electric’ home at 7554 Cayton Street you could get a smooth sun tan in the winter or stand in the center of the kitchen and look up at the moon and stars at night.

Far-fetched, you say? Not really, because these are just two unusual features offered in this model home to be seen during the Parade of Homes. The sun tan could be acquired because each of the all-tile baths is equipped with a sun lamp. And you could see the moon and stars because a spectacular glass skylight is carved into the ceiling of the kitchen.

Every room in the ‘all-electric’ house is characterized by individuality. The beautiful ash-paneled den, with soft cove lighting, has two large glass doors, one a sliding door opening into the bedroom and the other leading onto the patio.

The builder’s own touch is seen again in the kitchen. A compact miniature office where the housewife may conveniently handle correspondence, payment of bills, and make phone calls is set up at one end of the bar which serves as divider between the dining space and the range.

The All Electric Home has been