Eastwood is a historic neighborhood in the East End area of Houston, Texas, United States. Eastwood maintains Houston’s largest intact collection of Craftsman, Arts & Crafts, Foursquare and Mission style architecture. History Early development Eastwood was one of Houston’s first master-planned subdivisions. It was designed and developed in 1911 by William A. Wilson, who also developed Eastwood's sister neighborhood, Woodland Heights. The first lots went on sale in June 1912 and Eastwood officially opened in September 1913. A few of the homes were built between 1900 and 1909, prior to the official platting of the neighborhood. The development was planned with shelled streets that were sixty to eighty feet in width, cement curbs and sidewalks, city water, gas, electricity, telephones and sanitary sewerage, as well as terraced lots designed for natural drainage. One of the unique features of the neighborhood is the symmetrically planned placement of live oak and sycamore trees. Wilson envisioned Eastwood to be a more upscale counterpart to the Woodland Heights subdivision, which he previously developed in Houston. Utility service connections were placed at the rear of the lots to avoid marring the landscape of the community streets. A boulevard driveway was built through the center of the neighborhood, which skirted a natural ravine that provided lush greenery and a drainage route for surplus water to empty into Brays Bayou. The ravine was later filled and planted with cypress trees; it is currently the esplanade dividing Park Drive. By October 1913, Eastwood was hailed by The Houston Daily Post as a “model suburb, one of the most convenient, attractive and beautiful homesite additions in the city of Houston." Notable early residents The first residents were young entrepreneurs in the city, primarily business owners and management personnel. Its reputation as one of Houston's rising preeminent suburban neighborhoods attracted wealthy and notable residents, including: Howard Tellepsen, former president of Tellepsen Builders Charles L. Bering, owner of Bering's Hardware Ira G. Bond March Culmore, President of the Sam Houston Trust Co. Howard Hughes is believed to have lived for a brief period with his aunt on McKinney Street while he was building an airplane in a garage on nearby Eastwood Street, in addition to his oil-drilling machinery manufacturing business, the Hughes Tool Company, which moved to 5425 Polk Street in the 1940s. Architectural style The homes built in Eastwood were custom homes reflecting the early 20th century fondness for Craftsman,