Southampton, Houston, Texas
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Southampton is a neighborhood located in Houston, Texas.
Southampton is known for its canopied boulevards and historic homes. Southampton is located inside the 610 Loop, near Rice University and Downtown Houston. Buteras, a family-owned grocery store, was once located in the neighborhood. Residents walked to the grocery store until it was bought out by Seekers, which later closed.
The Southampton Civic Club was formed after a meeting on May 24, 1929. The civic club failed to persuade the Houston Independent School District to build a new high school on a tract at Kirby and West Alabama instead of on Westheimer across from the River Oaks neighborhood; Lamar High School was built across from River Oaks in 1937.
Southampton is in Texas's 7th congressional district [1].
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[edit] Police service
The neighborhood is within the Houston Police Department's South Central Patrol Division [2].
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The neighborhood is zoned to Houston ISD schools, including Poe Elementary School (located in Boulevard Oaks), Lanier Middle School (located in Montrose), and Lamar High School (located in Upper Kirby).
A private school called the Southampton Montessori School is also located in the neighborhood.
Nearby private schools include The Kinkaid School and St. John's School.
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[edit] Trivia
A section of Southampton between Bissonnet and Rice Boulevard have back alleys.
Community activist and art car artist Don "The Emissary" Seributra once lived in the former Southampton Apartments (now the Rice Graduate Apartments, 1515 Bissonnet) during his early childhood; his parents rented there between 1972 - late 1975.
Houston City Councilmember Anne Clutterbuck served as the president of the Southampton Civic Club between 2003 - 2005.
An investment vehicle named after the town, "Southampton Place, LP", was used by former Enron CFO Andrew Fastow to reap over $5 million from Enron via the "Fastow Family Foundation".
Writer Larry McMurtry lived here in the 1960's, when he taught at Rice University. His singer-song writer son James grew up here, while Larry lived in Houston.
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