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Terrell Heights: Post-War Boom Neighborhood
Terrell Heights exploded onto the map after WWII, built as the perfect post-war haven for Baby Boomers—affordable, family-friendly, and just a stone’s throw from its fancier neighbor, Terrell Hills. Named after San Antonio’s own Dr. Frederick Terrell, a titan of business, politics, and medicine, the neighborhood was developed in the ’40s by W.K. Ewing Co. with homes priced between $8,000 and $13,000—ideal for young families. But it came with rules: no livestock, no temporary housing, and even racial restrictions (now thankfully obsolete), plus a ban on contagious diseases, likely due to its…
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