Houston Home Built for Texaco Heiress Sells

A Houston home on the National Register of Historic Places found a buyer after almost a year on the market.

Sean Patrick Wade and his wife Martha Long sold the home at 3 Remington Lane in the Museum District to the Remington Trust on March 9, public records show. The sale price is undisclosed, as is the name of the individual buyer; the deed only names a fiduciary. Compass agent Laura Sweeney had the listing.

Built in 1939 and designed by noted architect John F. Staub for Margaret Cullinan, heiress to Texaco founder Joseph S. Cullinan, the two-story, 7,800-square-foot home has four bedrooms and seven bathrooms on a 1.4-acre lot. A pool and hot tub were added in 2002, according to county records.

The sellers initially listed the home last April for $9.8 million, according to Redfin. They had purchased it in 2022, when it was listed for $10 million.

The listing price declined in June, August and January, eventually settling at $8.5 million when it sold, or about $1,080 per square foot. It was the most expensive home sold in Houston last month, according to the Houston Association of Realtors.

The house is in the Shadyside subdivision, a 16-lot gated community which Joseph Cullinan developed. The subdivision, near Rice University, is steeped in Houston prestige: One of Howard Hughes’ weddings took place in the neighborhood, and a former president of Standard Oil lived there. Other National Register of Historic Places landmarks in Shadyside include the home at 2 Longfellow Lane, also designed by Staub.

Recent sales in Shadyside include the house at 1 Longfellow Lane, designed in 1926 by Rice University architect William Ward Watkin. Real estate investor and restorationist Kenneth Moczulski sold it to rancher and political donor Ashley Watt in September after it was asking $10.6 million.

Staub also designed the 9,400-square-foot home at 2110 River Oaks Boulevard, which Long and Wade bought in July. The home outranked all other residential sales in Harris County last year with an asking price of $18.9 million when it sold. Sweeney also represented the seller, the estate of the late Larry Brookshire.