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See Highland Park Dallas homes offered for sale in MLS and Highland Park properties in Dallas for sale but not yet in MLS. You will become even more acquainted with Highland Park and the home-buying opportunities this township offers.

4300 Armstrong Parkway

Highland Park, Texas 75205$17,500,000
Acreage: 1.600Year: 1997Square Feet: 11,702Lot Size: 237x280Bedrooms: 4Bathrooms: 4Neighborhood: Highland Park, Park CitiesSchool District: Highland Park ISD

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4201 Armstrong Parkway

Highland Park, Texas 75205$15,750,000
Acreage: 1.500Year: 1926Square Feet: 14,407Lot Size: Bedrooms: 6Bathrooms: 8Neighborhood: Highland Park, Park CitiesSchool District: Highland Park ISD

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4700 Lakeside Drive

Highland Park, Texas 75205$14,000,000
Acreage: 0.724Year: 1918Square Feet: Lot Size: 165x257 x 142x210Bedrooms: Bathrooms: Neighborhood: Highland Park, Park CitiesSchool District: Highland Park ISD

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4224 Armstrong Parkway

Highland Park, Texas 75205$13,386,000
Acreage: 0.505Year: 1928Square Feet: 11,549Lot Size: 110 x 200Bedrooms: 5Bathrooms: 7Neighborhood: Highland Park, Park CitiesSchool District: Highland Park ISD

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4009 Armstrong Avenue

Highland Park, Texas 75205$12,700,000
Acreage: 1.620Year: 1941Square Feet: 8,331Lot Size: Bedrooms: 5Bathrooms: 5Neighborhood: Highland Park, Park CitiesSchool District: Highland Park ISD

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4009 Armstrong Avenue

Highland Park, Texas 75205$12,700,000
Acreage: 1.620Year: 1941Square Feet: Lot Size: Bedrooms: Bathrooms: Neighborhood: Highland Park, Park CitiesSchool District: Highland Park ISD

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3518 Armstrong Avenue

Highland Park, Texas 75205$12,250,000
Acreage: 0.533Year: 2008Square Feet: 12,234Lot Size: 107 X 215Bedrooms: 6Bathrooms: 6Neighborhood: Highland Park, Park CitiesSchool District: Highland Park ISD

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3800 Beverly Drive

Highland Park, Texas 75205$11,995,000
Acreage: 0.846Year: 1922Square Feet: 8,938Lot Size: 137x267Bedrooms: 4Bathrooms: 5Neighborhood: Highland Park, Park CitiesSchool District: Highland Park ISD

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4311 Lakeside Drive

Highland Park, Texas 75219$10,850,000
Acreage: 2.341Year: Square Feet: Lot Size: Bedrooms: Bathrooms: Neighborhood: Highland Park, Park CitiesSchool District: Highland Park ISD

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3601 Beverly Drive

Highland Park, Texas 75205$9,995,000
Acreage: 0.436Year: 1923Square Feet: 12,834Lot Size: 95 X 200Bedrooms: 6Bathrooms: 5Neighborhood: Highland Park, Park CitiesSchool District: Highland Park ISD

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3701 Lexington Avenue

Highland Park, Texas 75205$9,450,000
Acreage: 0.393Year: 2005Square Feet: 8,156Lot Size: 95x198Bedrooms: 3Bathrooms: 4Neighborhood: Highland Park, Park CitiesSchool District: Highland Park ISD

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3401 Beverly Drive

Highland Park, Texas 75205$9,395,000
Acreage: 0.344Year: 2021Square Feet: 10,628Lot Size: 75x200Bedrooms: 8Bathrooms: 9Neighborhood: Highland Park, Park CitiesSchool District: Highland Park ISD

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Highland Park Dallas Modern Homes for Sale in MLS

Highland Park Dallas is fertile ground to find architect designed modern homes for sale including Mid-Century Modern homes, Texas Modern homes, and Transitional Modern homes. As a resource to help you find a modern home in Highland Park Dallas, we have created this Highland Park Modern Home search. I look forward to reviewing with you the Highland Park Dallas modern homes offered for sale in MLS and those Highland Park Dallas modern homes for sale not found in MLS.

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4712 Lakeside Drive

Highland Park, Texas 75205$12,500,000
Acreage: 1.302Year: 1910Square Feet: 7,643Lot Size: 234 x 264 x 248 x 20Bedrooms: 5Bathrooms: 6Neighborhood: Highland Park, Park CitiesSchool District: Highland Park ISD

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3508 Crescent Avenue

Highland Park, Texas 75205$9,950,000
Acreage: 0.545Year: 2018Square Feet: 12,266Lot Size: 115x200Bedrooms: 4Bathrooms: 5Neighborhood: Highland Park, Park CitiesSchool District: Highland Park ISD

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3428 Beverly Drive

Highland Park, Texas 75205$9,250,000
Acreage: 0.829Year: 1920Square Feet: 12,940Lot Size: 186x196Bedrooms: 5Bathrooms: 6Neighborhood: Highland Park, Park CitiesSchool District: Highland Park ISD

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3821 Beverly Drive

Highland Park, Texas 75205$9,200,000
Acreage: 0.517Year: 1992Square Feet: 10,057Lot Size: 100x225Bedrooms: 7Bathrooms: 6Neighborhood: Highland Park, Park CitiesSchool District: Highland Park ISD

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4350 Rheims Place

Highland Park, Texas 75205$8,495,000
Acreage: 0.444Year: 2020Square Feet: 8,243Lot Size: 110x171Bedrooms: 5Bathrooms: 7Neighborhood: Highland Park, Park CitiesSchool District: Highland Park ISD

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3601 Lexington Avenue

Highland Park, Texas 75205$8,495,000
Acreage: 0.457Year: 2007Square Feet: 11,539Lot Size: 96x219Bedrooms: 5Bathrooms: 6Neighborhood: Highland Park, Park CitiesSchool District: Highland Park ISD

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4241 Lorraine Avenue

Highland Park, Texas 75205$7,995,000
Acreage: 0.365Year: 1996Square Feet: 9,067Lot Size: 92 x 172 x 90 x 171Bedrooms: 4Bathrooms: 5Neighborhood: Highland Park, Park CitiesSchool District: Highland Park ISD

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3912 Miramar Avenue

Highland Park, Texas 75205$7,995,000
Acreage: 0.362Year: 2020Square Feet: 9,323Lot Size: 71 x 226Bedrooms: 5Bathrooms: 5Neighborhood: Highland Park, Park CitiesSchool District: Highland Park ISD

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3204 Beverly Drive

Highland Park, Texas 75205$6,990,000
Acreage: 0.246Year: 2002Square Feet: 8,823Lot Size: 55x195Bedrooms: 5Bathrooms: 4Neighborhood: Highland Park, Park CitiesSchool District: Highland Park ISD

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4236 Lorraine Avenue

Highland Park, Texas 75205$6,500,000
Acreage: 0.362Year: 2000Square Feet: 6,474Lot Size: 94x167Bedrooms: 5Bathrooms: 5Neighborhood: Highland Park, Park CitiesSchool District: Highland Park ISD

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4408 Lorraine Avenue

Highland Park, Texas 75205$6,495,000
Acreage: 0.280Year: 2021Square Feet: 7,559Lot Size: 75x161Bedrooms: 5Bathrooms: 6Neighborhood: Highland Park, Park CitiesSchool District: Highland Park ISD

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4701 Drexel Drive

Highland Park, Texas 75205$6,495,000
Acreage: 0.688Year: 1970Square Feet: 6,443Lot Size: IrregularBedrooms: 4Bathrooms: 5Neighborhood: Highland Park, Park CitiesSchool District: Highland Park ISD

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Highland Park Dallas Dedicated to Highland Park Homeowners

This Highland Park Dallas website is dedicated to those of you who already live in Dallas in the Highland Park township; those who desire to purchase a Highland Park home offered for sale; and those aesthetically enlightened who just enjoy Highland Park. Please use Highland Park Dallas as a resource to help you buy a home in Highland Park or to learn more about the architect designed homes of Highland Park and the incredible attributes of Highland Park Dallas.

Highland Park Dallas is You

You enjoy the best and expect the best.  You have a great aesthetic eye and a great eye for value.  You enjoy immersing yourself in the city’s cultural opportunities and the exciting life of a city, but desire a tranquil residential retreat insulated from the worries of the world.  You are sophisticated and generous and give a high priority to education, security and a beautiful environment. Highland Park is you.

Armstrong, The Graceful Parkway of Dallas, is Located in Highland Park

Armstrong Parkway is a beautiful boulevard of architect designed homes from the early 20th century to the 21st century, overlooking the tree lined residential parkway.

Douglas Newby is the Highland Park Realtor to Represent You Successfully Buying a Highland Park Dallas Home

I know you only want the best Dallas and Highland Park have to offer. I know I only want to work with clients like you who share my interest in architecturally significant homes with real value. I specialize in architect designed, historic and architecturally significant homes which are abundantly found in Highland Park Dallas. You will benefit from my understanding and passion for good design and good value. As we review together the nuance of each small specific neighborhood within Highland Park Dallas, you will have the confidence that you have selected the right architecturally significant home for your home in Highland Park Dallas.

Everyone who works with me, colleagues, clients, title company officers, lenders and other professionals, recognize that I represent my clients with the diligence, loyalty and success that the most important people in Dallas and Highland Park expect.

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Douglas Newby is the Best Realtor to Help You Buy or Sell a Significant Home in Highland Park

Douglas Newby will help you find a home, and interpret the nuance and the value of the home, its location, its site, and the home’s architect.

Highland Park Dallas Real Estate

Gracious Highland Park Dallas homes can be purchased for close to $1,000,000 or over $50,000,000, but each home is in a beautiful Highland Park Dallas neighborhood that enjoys the Highland Park Police, Department of Public Safety, Highland Park Fire Department, Highland Park schools, library and the meandering creeks like Hackberry Creek and Turtle Creek that run through Highland Park linking the green spaces, parks and small Highland Park neighborhoods.  Often Highland Park Dallas homes can be purchased at lot value because the demand for land is so strong and growing because the inventory of Highland Park homes and Highland Park lots is so small. Highland Park is totally insulated from Dallas and any challenges facing a large city. Highland Park is also the neighborhood closest to the Knox entertainment area, the Arts District, and Katy Trail, the wonderful assets of the city. The better Dallas does as a city, the more valuable the property becomes in Highland Park Dallas.

Dallas is Strongest City in Country, Highland Park is Best in City

Dallas is the strongest city in the country and we can fully expect it to continue to flourish as 25 years of planning is coming to fruition. Klyde Warren Park created over Woodall Rodgers Freeway is an increasingly popular destination. Trinity Park, bike trails and museums continue to be nurtured. As people from cities around the United States are flocking to Dallas, Highland Park in Dallas is always a primary draw.

Dearest Douglas,

We are so grateful to you for guiding us throughout the exciting process of buying a beautiful Highland Park estate home first and then trying to sell our old Highland Park one in record time. I know you have an eye for distinctive and unique homes given your endless appetite for architecture and cultural comprehension. But your deep understanding of human behavior and the art of negotiation is even more spectacular. You are a rare gem and I am so blessed to count you as a good friend.”

– Choy Leng Scott

Fabulous Neighborhoods are the Strength of Highland Park Dallas

Celebrating Family, Friends, Neighbors, Highland Park and Texas and the United States at the Highland Park 4th of July Parade

Watch children on floats, SMU bands, US Marshalls on horseback, dignitaries, and children parade through the fabulous neighborhoods of Highland Park Dallas

What better way to get a sense of Highland Park, its neighbors and its neighborhoods than going to the Highland Park 4th of July Parade. You can go to my website Architecturally Significant Homes to learn about the 21 specific small neighborhoods within Highland Park Dallas.

21 Highland Park neighborhoods
The Beverly Drive homes in Dallas evoke the style and spirit of the Highland Park neighborhoods.

21 Specific Neighborhoods Comprise Highland Park Dallas

While many consider Highland Park a generically prestigious community, Highland Park is actually made up of several areas, neighborhoods and niche areas. Here is a list of the neighborhoods defined geographically. To find out more about these 21 areas, additions, and niche neighborhoods in Highland Park Dallas, you can find descriptions, maps, and examples of homes in each of these small neighborhoods by going to Architecturally Significant Homes > Neighborhoods > Highland Park.

Highland Park Dallas Neighborhood

Architecturally and historically significant homes in Highland Park. We share your interest in Highland Park both professionally and avocationally and want to share with you our knowledge of the architecturally…  See More

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Highland Park Neighborhood West of Preston
First Section of Highland Park Neighborhood West of Preston
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Highland Park Dallas Neighborhoods

Highland Park Dallas is extraordinarily beautiful from one corner of the neighborhood to the other. Creeks and parks are found throughout Highland Park. As you look at Highland Park more closely, you will learn the nuances of the many small neighborhoods within the township of Highland Park, some close to Highland Park Village, others close to SMU, and others bordered by the Katy trail. Some Highland Park neighborhoods have large estate lots where some Highland Park Dallas neighborhoods are on smaller lots overlooking parks.

The best place in Highland Park Dallas to find architect designed homes large enough for a family but still affordable for successful professionals is the 4500 Blocks of the French Streets in Highland Park.

There is a Perfect Highland Park Neighborhood for You

Whether you prefer the historic homes of Highland Park Dallas built in the 1920s, 1930s or 1940s, or the midcentury architect designed homes of the 1950s or 1960s, or the Texas modern homes of the 1970s and 1980s, or the more recently built Highland Park estate homes, you will be able to find the perfect neighborhood. Below, you will discover each Highland Park Dallas neighborhood in the Highland Park Neighborhood section of Architecturally Significant Homes has several specific sections and additions that represent distinct characteristics of the real estate and homes found in Highland Park Dallas.

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Architecturally significant home designed by Goodwin and Tatum that aspire the architecture of new homes in Highland Park Dallas.

Highland Park High School – Highland Park Dallas Schools

Highland Park Dallas schools Highland Park high school are considered some of the best in the country, rivaling the top private schools. Whether it is academics or athletics, Highland Park high school excels. Learn about these neighborhood schools, the committed parents and passionate teachers.

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  • McCulloch Intermediate School
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Highland Park Village

This open-air, historic, stylish and renovated Highland Park Village shopping center is a landmark for all the right reasons. Opened in 1931, it was designed by Dallas architects Fooshee and Cheek who travelled internationally to refine the design for this Spanish Colonial shopping center facing inward. Sited across from the Dallas Country Club, the oldest country club in Texas, it is a favorite location in Highland Park. Highland Park Village serves as a true village for the Highland Park residents, where you can have your shoes repaired at Deno’s or buy groceries at a small Tom Thumb, buy a camera at Cooter’s or grab a suit at Ralph Lauren’s Polo Shop. It is also where residents in Highland Park can find the finest estate jewelry from Bill Noble at William Noble Rare Jewels or peruse high fashion at Chanel, a few sporting items from Beretta, or have fun at Jimmy Choo or Tory Burch. Even eyeglasses are a little more stylish at the Highland Park Village, visit Peeper’s or buy some household goods at Williams-Sonoma. Whether it’s casual and stylish dinner at Mi Cocina or the elegance of the dark wood and white table tops at the Highland Park institution Café Pacific, ask for Thomas or Lisa and they will treat you as well as any of the nobility who are frequent guests.

Highland Park Dallas Church

Highland Park – Third Church of Christ Scientist

This Highland Park Church was designed by architect Mark Lemmon.

Third Church of Christ Scientist

Highland Park Presbyterian Church

Highland Park Presbyterian has been in existence since the 1920s. This Highland Park church is one of the largest and most influential churches in the country. Located on University Boulevard and close to Williams Park, its original design was by architect Mark Lemmon.

Highland Park Presbytarian Church

Highland Park Methodist Church

Highland Park United Methodist Church is located at the southwest corner of the Southern Methodist University campus at Mockingbird Lane and Hillcrest Avenue. Its first services were held in 1916 and now there are over 13,000 members including former President George Bush. Just down the SMU boulevard is Perkins Chapel, the place of worship for both Methodist and Catholic students attending SMU and for nearby Park Cities residents.

Highland Park Methodist Church
Highland Park Perkins Chapel

Highland Park – Park Cities Baptist Church

Highland Park – Park Cities Baptist Church, founded in 1939, is located at Northwest Highway between Hillcrest Avenue and Preston Road. Its diverse membership consists of nearly 9,400 members. Five weekend worship services are offered.

Highland Park – Park Cities Baptist Church

Highland Park – Christ the King Catholic Church

Located on the edge of the Park Cities, Christ the King is a popular Catholic church and school. On the south side of Highland Park Dallas you will find Holy Trinity Catholic Church.

Highland Park – Christ the King Catholic Church
Highland Park – Holy Trinity Catholic Church

Highland Park Dallas – Saint Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church

Many prominent Highland Park and University Park and Dallas residents attend Saint Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church which is the largest Episcopal Church in the United States, serving 5,000 communicants. It is located on the edge of University Park, on the corner of Douglas Avenue and Colgate Avenue.

Saint Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church

Highland Park Dallas Architecture and Architects

No other township in Texas is as rich in architect designed homes in the 20th and 21st centuries as is Highland Park Dallas. Prominent architects from every decade designed Mediterranean, English, Georgian, Tudor, Italianate, Spanish Colonial and modern homes.

In the early 1900s architects like Hal Thomson, who trained in Europe and designed beautiful homes on Swiss Avenue in Munger Place, continued their architecture practices in Highland Park Dallas. In the early to late parts of the midcentury, nationally acclaimed architects like O’Neil Ford designed Texas modern homes. Currently, there is a reservoir of great architects who either trained at one of the architecture schools in Texas or on the East Coast who are making a great impact on Dallas. You will see examples of many of these early architects including Lang and Witchell, Hal Thomson, Fooshee and Cheek, Anton Korn, J. Allen Boyle, C.D. Hill, Hal Yoakum and recent architects like Richardson Robertson, Cole Smith, Richard Drummond Davis, Robbie Fusch, Larry Boerder, Wilson Fuqua, Frank Welch and other nationally recognized architects.

Douglas Newby is a Highland Park Dallas realtor who embraces your desire to live in the finest neighborhood, and acquire the best Highland Park home that represents the best value.

Original Beverly Drive Home in Highland Park Dallas Undergoes Modern Transformation

Modern award-winning architects Braxton Werner and Paul Field have designed the modern transformation of this original Beverly Drive home in Highland Park Dallas. While the scale and exterior architecture is consistent with the other homes on this Highland Park block, the interior has been dramatically changed, reflecting the compatibility of modern design with the Mediterranean style commonly seen in the original home in Highland Park Dallas.

Highland Park Dallas Lot for Sale

Highland Park Dallas Land is 97.5 feet wide by 199 feet deep, .428 acres

This large Highland Park Dallas lot was offered for sale on Lexington Avenue. Here you will find a street of architecturally significant homes placed behind a parkway of mature trees. Close to Armstrong Elementary school, the Highland Park swimming pool, and the Highland Park Library make this even a more attractive site in Highland Park Dallas.

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Windows are a lens to the environment around us. O Windows are a lens to the environment around us. Often historic homes have windows with pretty views of nature. Too often modern homes are built with gobs of oversized windows, but they  look into a neighbor’s garage. I love that this modern home has long stretches of windows on both sides of the home that allow one from either the inside or outside of the home to have a beautiful framed view of other architect-designed modern houses across the pond. *Modern Lens
#Architecture #Architect #Design #Window #View #Modern #ModernHome #OrganicUrbanism
The winter point of Pointillism is to accentuate t The winter point of Pointillism is to accentuate the design and capture the moment.  On a morning bike ride through Dallas neighborhoods, what better way to convey a season, capture a home, and express a feeling than with full, soft, white snowflakes falling against the backdrop of a home painted in a graphite tone trimmed in white.  This city home surrounded by nature on a rolling block was transformed by one of my favorite artists, Allison V. Smith, and her husband, the esteemed gallerist, Barry Whistler.  They took a home with great proportions that was perfectly sited, but at a glance might look like many other brick homes of the Dallas period.  Dramatic paint, landscaping, and a well-positioned porch bench make the home visually enticing and an inviting spot for a porch salon.  Here is a home that captures the essence of every season and the vitality of the city interlaced with nature—Organic Urbanism at its best.  Thank you, Allison @AllisonVSmith  and Barry @BarryWhistlerGallery, for your many contributions to heightening the aesthetics of Dallas. *Winter Pointillism
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A Christmas tradition in our family started, not w A Christmas tradition in our family started, not when I received this speed-reading mechanical bear, but when my father did when I was a child.  He so enjoyed narrating and showing off this speed-reading bear to family, friends and neighbors stopping by over the holidays that he received a mechanical toy every Christmas from then on.  On Christmas Eve presents were opened, and on Christmas Day all the previous mechanical toys received at Christmas were brought out and put under the tree.  And what a collection it was—from Charlie Weaver mixing a drink, drinking it, and smoke coming out of his ears, to the Neiman Marcus nursing dog. The tradition continued after my father was gone and I began receiving a mechanical toy every Christmas. *Speed Reading
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The wonderful thing about being a real estate brok The wonderful thing about being a real estate broker is not just seeing great houses, but meeting and getting to know wonderful people. This Henry B. Thomson architect-designed house is a beauty.  Every time I go inside, I marvel at its proportions and why it instills such a pleasing sense of awe in a greater way than other important houses. Just having the opportunity to revisit that feeling would have been motivation enough to represent the seller and offer this architecturally significant home for sale. What was really thrilling was to represent a Hal Thomson homeowner who I met when I was in my 20s, when the homeowner was first looking at homes on Swiss Avenue. I have watched her renovate the home, maintain the home and contribute in a friendly and meaningful way to the neighborhood. This homeowner exemplifies why so many Swiss Avenue homeowners live on Swiss Avenue for decades—the comradery and friendly atmosphere, the proximity to downtown with skyline views popping up over the trees that grace the boulevard, the nationally celebrated neighborhood chef-owned restaurants, and the close proximity to the Santa Fe Trail and White Rock Lake. While the sale of this home invokes sentiment, it also brings joy to see this architecturally significant home being passed on to another homeowner who also loves historic homes, gardens, Dallas, and Swiss Avenue.  The great houses survive 100 years because of great owners. This Hal Thomson-designed home has another one. I always strive for gracious transactions. This important home was listed, sold and closed in 19 days with all the participants delighted with the outcome and the future of the home. *Baton Passed

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The city trails are busy. The tree-lined neighborh The city trails are busy. The tree-lined neighborhood residential streets remain tranquil. Isn’t it remarkable that one can ride a bike from White Rock Lake to the downtown Arts District through four linked single-family zoned historic and conservation districts and the Wilson Block Historic District on Swiss Avenue?  While the Sante Fe and Katy Trails also provide enjoyable links from White Rock Lake to the Arts District, can you think of another city where one can ride several miles through the quiet residential streets surrounding downtown? The conservation district of Lakewood, the historic district of Junius Heights, the historic district of Munger Place, and the historic district of Peak Suburban protect the aesthetics and scale of the homes. The single-family zoning protects the neighborhood, keeping the density, traffic and number of cars parked on the curb low. People are fleeing cities where there is no refuge from high density neighborhoods. Cities that have added density to their neighborhoods have experienced destabilization and deterioration like Dallas once had when the neighborhoods were zoned multifamily. In Dallas, this deterioration was reversed when the neighborhoods were rezoned single-family. There is a push by some at City Hall to allow ADUs and backyard rental houses on every single-family zoned lot in Dallas. This would have a devastating effect on our tree-lined neighborhoods. Cities are fragile. We need to continue to nurture ours. *Residential Link to Downtown
#ADUs #LowDensity #BackyardRentalHouses #TreeLinedStreets #BikeRide #Trail #Path #Dallas #Neighborhood #DallasNeighborhood #City #OrganicUrbanism
Architect C.W. Bulger was part of early 20th centu Architect C.W. Bulger was part of early 20th century architectural royalty. Bulger came to Dallas in 1905 to design a prominent church.  His classical architectural departure from the Gothic church style of the time prompted his invitation to design this neo classical church with Iconic columns and a gold dome for the Gaston Avenue Baptist Church that is now Criswell College. His son, Clarence, who had just graduated from the University of Chicago, joined his practice and in 1907 they designed the first skyscraper in Dallas, the Praetorian Building. The father and son architectural firm went on to design elegant and refined homes on Swiss Avenue and in Highland Park, Lakewood and Northern Hills. The foundation of Dallas architecture was made up of great architects that included C.W. Bulger, Hal Thomson, Lang & Witchell, C.D. Hill, Marion Fooshee, James Cheek and others. *Neo-Classical Sacred Design #CWBulger #GastonAvenueBaptistChurch #CriswellCollege #Architecture #Architects #Neoclassical #Dallas #SacredSpaces #Design
As a contractor once said, “If you are going to As a contractor once said, “If you are going to give a home a facelift, start with the eyebrows.” While renovation will make this charming Craftsman cottage fresher and more elegant, this home is also a good reminder that gentrification is underrated. It is worth noting that working class homeowners, teachers, journalists, and artists bought and fixed up houses in the neighborhood and helped change the apartment zoning to single-family zoning. This prevented large apartment complexes to be built that would have had expensive rent and cause the affordable homes like this one to be torn down. Gentrification from renovation is a slow process. Gentrification started 45 years ago in the now historic districts of Munger Place, Junius Heights, and Peak Suburban Additions. It is nice that this Junius Heights historic district home is now taking its turn at renovation. *Raised Eyebrow
#JuniusHeights #GentrificationIsUnderrated #EyebrowDormer #OldEastDallas #SingleFamilyZoning #Neighborhood #Dallas #Architecture #Historic #Revitalization
The Howard Meyer angle makes an impact on architec The Howard Meyer angle makes an impact on architecture, neighborhoods and Dallas. This great architect did all three across Dallas. At White Rock Lake in 1939 he set the tone for classic estate homes overlooking the lake. On Turtle Creek Blvd. he designed 3525 Turtle Creek, a residential high-rise, that gave panache, style and elegance to Turtle Creek that became known for prestigious high-rises.  In 1953, Howard Meyer with architect Max Sandfield designed Temple Emanu-El, a sacred space for a religious community, that became the pride of the Dallas community. In Greenway Parks Howard Meyer designed a midcentury modern home in 1950 that propelled the design of many other architecturally significant midcentury modern homes in Greenway Parks. In 1982 Jim and Carolyn Clark retained Howard Meyer to consult with on the home's renovation. The result was a midcentury modern residence that renewed interest in midcentury modern homes in Dallas. The current owners’ further renovation maintained this modern home as a beacon for the best architects in Dallas to come to Greenway Parks and design architecturally significant homes here. *Angle of Howard Meyer
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