ESTABLISHED 1924

Originally developed in 1924, Riverside Terrace offered some of the finest homes available in Houston to the new oil rich families and prominent business leaders of the day.  Over the next several decades many of Houston’s wealthy Jewish families also moved here to build their homes on grand estates which rivaled those of River Oaks.  During the 1930s and 1940s, Jewish families were excluded by an unwritten code, from buying properties or living in fashionable River Oaks.

Thus, families familiar to many Houstonians – the Battlestiens, Fingers, Sakowitzs, Macgregors, and Weingartens – hired renowned architects, such as Birdsall, Birscoe & Barnstone, John Chase and John Staub, to build beautiful homes on Riverside Terrace properties – just east of the Texas Medical Center, Hermann Park and …

Proudly Serving Riverside Terrace and Surrounding Areas

Since 1937, the Parkwood Drive Civic Club (PDCC) has been a leader in advancing the civic development of the Riverside Terrace community, maintaining and …