Lindale Park, Houston, Texas
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Lindale Park is a neighborhood in Houston, Texas
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Lindale Park is east of Interstate 45, inside Interstate 610
Interstate 610 (Texas)
Interstate 610 is a freeway that forms a forty-two-mile loop around the downtown sector of city of Houston, Texas. Interstate 610, colloquially known as "The Loop", "Loop 610", "The 610 Loop", or just "610", traditionally marks the border between the inner city of Houston and its surrounding areas...

, and north of Downtown Houston
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. Lindale Park has many bungalows.

In 2004 Anjali Athavalley of the Houston Chronicle
Houston Chronicle
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stated that Lindale Park's popularity was increasing. During that year the prices of houses ranged from $83,000 to $175,000.

History

In 1937, W. Roy Reid developed the Lindale Park subdivision next to the existing Lindale Park Golf Course. Following World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

, the course was replaced with additional housing http://www.lindalepark.org/civic.html.

Lindale Park is a mixed community of thriving Ethnic-American backgrounds and cultural diversity.

Education

Lindale Park is zoned to the following Houston ISD schools:
  • Jefferson Elementary School
  • Burbank Middle School
  • Davis High School
    Davis High School (Houston)
    Jefferson Davis High School is a secondary school located at 1101 Quitman in the Near Northside neighborhood of Northside, Houston, Texas with a ZIP code of 77009. It was named after Jefferson Davis, the only president of the Confederate States of America....


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