Tracing the history of your house can be interesting and time-consuming. Here are some basic resources to help you determine the age of your home and get you started. Check these to determine the age of your home:

Harris County Appraisal District (HCAD)

You can do a quick search by address and you should find a date for your home and possibly a remodeling date (not 100% accurate but will provide a starting place).

https://hcad.org/quick-search/

2. Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps

These neighborhood maps were created by an insurance company and many libraries provide online versions to search. One of the easier collections to search is found at the University of Texas in the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection. For the Woodland Heights homes, you should look for Houston and use the Key page to locate the area of interest. The book from 1924 has many of our homes in it. You will see a drawing of the home identified with the street address. Most of Woodland Heights can be found on these sheets: 253,254,256,259,260,263,267,268,271, and 272.

There are bound copies at the Houston Metropolitan Archives.

http://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/maps/sanborn/texas.html

3. Houston Metropolitan Research Center

Closed for now due to pandemic but it has many archival papers related to Houston history. Some items are digitized, but some require you to research the files in person. This collection is located downtown at 550 McKinney in the Julia Ideson building and in the same block as the Central library. Here are some examples of what you might find:

The plat of the Woodland Heights as offered by the William A. Wilson Company https://cdm17006.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/archival/id/1201/rec/1
City Directories – There are directories from many early years. You might be able to search for your street name, find your address and see who lived there in a certain year. Below is a link to a city directory from 1920-21: https://cdm17006.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/citydir/id/11660/rec/40