6315 South Loop East – Houston TX (built 1958; architect: A. Carroll Brodnax; originally 6315 Holmes Rd.)

 

From Houston Magazine, January 1958:

A touch of Las Vegas will be added to Freeway Addition when “The Sands” (luxury apartment building under construction by Tex-Craft Builders, Incorporated, for Wayne Duddleston and Duane Fossler) is completed.

 

Architect A. Carroll Brodnax designed an exterior of Mexican brick and cedar with pegboard features. A balcony will circle the building, and to provide privacy, a 400-foot fence of alternate panels of concrete blocks and pegboard will be built on the Holmes Road side.

 

Each apartment features: living-dining area, large picture window, bedroom, kitchen, bath, air conditioning, walk-in closets and wall-to-wall carpets. For residents’ recreation: a palm-bordered swimming pool.

 

(the pool was filled in some time after 1981)