Inwood Drive

This addition and remodel to the historic Clayton Summer House combines the owner’s love of modern architecture with her fond memories of the original. In 1923, patriarch Will Clayton hired architect Birdsall Briscoe to design the first house in Houston’s River Oaks, then located outside the city, as a summer house for his family. As was popular at the time, Briscoe used Mount Vernon as an inspiration for the planning and the design. The house is now on the National Register of Historic Places; the addition complements and respects the original.