Please note that advance ticket purchase is required for this tour.

Montrose Place set a new standard for Houston’s suburban development when it opened in 1911. The neighborhood was the city’s first large-scale planned subdivision, with more than 1,000 lots and $1 million in improvements; its four principal boulevards quickly became some of the most fashionable addresses in town. This all-new walking tour explores two of those boulevards — Lovett Boulevard and Audubon Place — and what they can tell us about early 20th-century suburban design in the Bayou City.

Our 90-minute, docent-guided tour will cover these beautiful boulevards and adjacent streets, which include some of the most intact blocks in Montrose. We’ll see homes that represent the most popular styles in Houston in the 1910s and ’20s, including Craftsman and Prairie, and will discuss what made those styles well suited to our climate. We will also talk about the neighborhood’s ups and downs, and how this part of Montrose retained its residential character even as other parts of the neighborhood changed drastically over the years.

This is an exterior architecture tour only. The tour will not go inside any buildings. There are no public restrooms along the tour route.

Photo: Robert Burt House (1915, F.J. Marett) / by Jim Parsons

About the tour

Advance ticket purchase is required for the tour; tickets are offered on a first-come, first-served basis. We will not be able to accommodate walk-ups on the day of the tour. There are no refunds for tour tickets.

Registrants will receive parking and check-in information via e-mail.

Face masks are optional for all fully vaccinated individuals, including docents. We require that tourgoers who are not fully vaccinated remain masked at all times during the tour, including at check in. This policy may change based on recommendations from the CDC and local health officials.

In the event of inclement weather that prevents the tour from being offered as planned, we will notify registrants as far in advance as possible about their options to attend a rescheduled tour or transfer their reservations to another Preservation Houston tour.

Do you have an Architecture Walks pass?

If you have joined Preservation Houston and received a pass for a free Architecture Walk since February 2020, you may redeem the pass for admission to this tour. E-mail tours@preservationhouston.org and we'll be happy to help.

Passes are redeemable subject to ticket availability.