Interpretations of New England style homes can occasionally be found in Dallas. The colonial influence is often seen on these houses that have a facade of wood clapboards and a side gabled roof that runs to the ends of both sides of the house. These simple homes generally have little ornamentation and window trim. They convey a charming sense of tranquility.
How does a home become one of the favorite homes in Highland Park? In the case of 3925 Potomac, it has happened over a span of 100 years. From the... See More
The Wilson block on Swiss Avenue has the largest collection of Victorian style homes in Dallas. The last of this collection of Victorian homes was built in 1903. High-pitched roofs and gabled rooms and much ornate detail and trim defined these homes designed more for decoration than function. Often painted in multiple colors to accentuate the expressive detailing, this design has been a sentimental romantic favorite for years. The steady movement towards modern homes along with the high cost of building Victorian style homes has made new Victorian style homes rare in the 20th and 21st century. A one-story Victorian home at 4002 Gilbert Avenue built at the turn of the 21st century, however was extremely popular when it went on the market in 2021 and received over one dozen full price offers.
The style of this architecturally distinctive home is Queen Anne, complete with the wood trim, stenciling, murals, and wall coverings from the Victorian period. The house is constructed with a pier and beam foundation, 2 x 6 exterior walls, and has eighty feet of Victorian detailed porches wrapping around the front, side and back of the home. This home is further accentuated by the ridge caps on the roof and beautiful red brick chimney.
D Magazine's 10 Most Charming Homes 2020 included this 1996 meticulously built one-story Victorian style architect-designed home capturing the detail, 11-foot ceilings, wood floors of a historic home, deep pier... See More
In Highland Park, many early 20th century architect designed homes have been renovated and modified over the years keeping in the spirit of European revivalist design.
The early homes in Old Highland Park set the architectural tone for the Highland Park homes designed and built over the next 100 years. Architects Otto Lang and Frank Witchell... See More
Thomas A. Kligerman, an architect, designed a home in Volk Estates in Dallas that draws from the Atlantic seaboard Shingle style, but is a fresh interpretation that advances the architecture and relates to the site and to the neighborhood.
A new architectural addition to Volk Estates is the home designed by New York architect Tom Kligerman. When selecting an architect to design a home, Dallas homeowners occasionally go beyond... See More
Inspired Dallas Modern in Peninsula Neighborhood Sold by Douglas Newby
Where else will you find an architect-designed home overlooking a meadow, forest and park, with a walking and biking paths down to the Bath House Cultural Center and Bath House... See More
Mediterranean is one of the styles most conducive to a modern design and influence. This Mediterranean Modern home reflects the Mediterranean influence of Highland Park and the modern tendency of Weldon Turner.
In 1950, Frank Lloyd Wright began his only residential project in Dallas. This home, designed for John Gillin, was completed after three years of construction in 1958, Wright's last home... See More
This style is born not by rigid modernists but by artists who incorporated materials and space to accommodate their lifestyle.
Clifford D. Hutsell designed this Lakewood home for himself in 1930. At a cost of $10,000, this was one of the most expensive new residences in Lakewood and the same... See More
In 1992, Wilson Fuqua carefully delineated the front door and the stacked architectural elements above to create a composition that stands alone, blends in, and contributes to the Spanish Colonial... See More
Characterized by their simplicity and strength, these Normandy style homes utilize semicircular arches and a variety of exterior ornamentation such as decorative lighting fixtures and stylized chimneys to complement their brick-patterned and contrasting stone facades.
This insignificant older home was adapted by an artist and designer and his wife. Japanese water gardens and teahouse surprise the visitor. An extended patch of wild flowers slope up... See More
Wilson Fuqua was retained to redesign and renovate this proud old French neo-classical estate home in 2002. Working with the original footprint dictated that the proportions and many of the... See More
This extraordinary Preston Hollow Dallas estate home was designed by Robbie Fusch of Fusch, Serold & Partners on 2.38 acres on Strait Lane. The materials, proportions and grace of this... See More
The use of half timbering in the construction of the home designed by Richard Drummond Davis identifies it as English, similar to a Tudor style home, while the massive quality of the home designed by Cole Smith presents more Elizabethan character with the use of symmetry, heavy stone and verticality to draw one's eye up - all prominent design features used in this era.
English Style Estate Home Overlooking Lakewood Golf Course Sold by Douglas Newby
The finest neighborhoods have an anchor of architectural styles and architects. The best neighborhoods also convey a sense of community. The home at 6633 Country Club Circle exemplifies both of... See More
Rockbrook is a street of cutting edge masterpieces designed over 50 years by architects such as Howard Meyer, Howard Hamilton Harris, Frank Lloyd Wright, and Steven Holl and Bud Oglesby. It is also a street that epitomizes the architectural taste of Dallas.
In the mid 1980s, the Maguires commissioned architect Jack Hemphill to design this stately mansion on the corner of Rockbrook and Overton Shelmire designed the addition. Rather than be hidden... See More
The style of this architecturally distinctive home is Queen Anne, complete with the wood trim, stenciling, murals, and wall coverings from the Victorian period. The house is constructed with a... See More
5427 Morningside captures the charm of the several hundred Tudor cottages on the M Streets, now a conservation district. These brick homes with irregular stone ornamental inlays have a screened... See More
The stacked duplex is a popular Dallas architectural convention. Often, these duplexes have similar elements of Tudor cottages or Spanish Eclectic homes. A series of these homes are found in several East Dallas and Lakewood neighborhoods, along with Highland Park, University Park and Oak Lawn. These duplex residences give each family a full floor, high ceilings, many windows and a front balcony porch or balcony to enjoy.
Popular in the 1920 and 1930s, stacked duplexes are peculiar to Dallas in both their abundance and predilection for Spanish and Tudor elements. While most cities have side-by-side two story duplexes or row houses, Dallas has stacked duplexes that have only one visible front door to be consistent with the surrounding single-family homes. On the narrow street of LaVista, these duplexes repeat themselves. On Normandy there is a series of similar duplexes with variations of the facade. On Binkley the duplexes have been converted to single-family residences.
Commonly found in the Northeast, this home on Cedar Springs remains Dallas' best example. Miller’s father received a 640-acre land grant where the Millermore house was built.
The first Prairie style home Frank Lloyd Wright designed was in River Forest, Illinois, in 1893. This Winslow house is much closer in mass and style than the later Prairie style homes for which Frank Lloyd Wright is better known. A front door and side lights, horizontal bands of trim separating floors and wide roof overhangs are found in the Prairie style interpretations that swept across the Midwest and certainly in Dallas between 1905 and 1920.
The Prairie box or American Four Square is often just that. A basic symmetrical home with a gabled or hipped roof. The front porch is generally the full width of the house with square, not tapered, columns often supported by horizontal half columns. The soffits are flat and closed and the exterior siding has a horizontal course line if it is brick or wood teardrop siding if it is a frame to give a horizontal shadow line. Wide double horizontal bands of trim are found on both the first and second floor. Many of the homes have gabled dormers. From this basic pattern Palladian dormers will give it a Mission look or classical columns will give the home a neoclassical flavor. Sullivanseque trim or geometrical patterned windows can give a home a more refined Prairie style appearance.
These homes remain, however, simple designs with double passageways and large double-hung windows, providing an open floor plan and plenty of light. While they were built for only a short period, they are very accommodating to a contemporary lifestyle.
Old Highland Park would not be old without old houses. The largest collections of remaining Prairie style influenced houses in Highland Park is found on the 3600 block of Crescent.... See More
This is how the Munger Brothers first touted their new development that had replaced a 300 acre cotton field on the eastern edge of the city limits. A City Beautiful... See More
No other setting in Dallas would be as perfect for this Normandy Stone farmhouse. It is placed on top of a hill with no driveway or walkway interrupting the lawn that comes down to the small dead end street in a neighborhood you can only approach over the historic stone bridge that is framed by creeks and built on stone.
These fanciful houses are influenced by architectural elements of farmhouses across France. Some are ornate and embellished, others are simple and rustic.
Highland Park, Texas, National Historic Landmark Sold by Douglas Newby
Many consider this Highland Park home designed by Mark Lemmon to be the most historically significant home in Highland Park and maybe Dallas and North Texas. Richard R. Brettell, the... See More
