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Crespi Hicks Estate For Sale

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Preston Hollow Estate Home For Sale on 25 Acres

Once in a generation an extraordinary home in the United States might come on the market. The Crespi / Hicks Estate offered for sale is just such a home. Sited on 25 acres, the home has a rich architectural pedigree: the genius of the original architect, Maurice Fatio; the grace of landscape architect Arabella Lennox-Boyd; the brilliance of the renovation architect, Peter Marino, who honored, and further refined, the powerful architecture and perfect proportions that Maurice Fatio was known for in New York and Palm Beach in the 1920s and 1930s and are still celebrated today.

Why this Preston Hollow Home on 25 Acres Could Appreciate in Value
More Than Any Home in the United States

There are many factors that support the expectation that the Crespi / Hicks Estate, over the next ten years, will increase in value more than any other home in the United States. This estate property is located in the economically strongest city and region in the country.

It is on the best site in the best neighborhood, with the finest private schools, only 8 minutes from the Arts District and downtown Dallas, and only 15 minutes from an airport, and the Crespi / Hicks Estate has a helicopter landing area. Most important, the home is sited on 25.25 acres, the largest estate property in a major city anywhere in the United States. It also has a home with one of the most important architectural pedigrees, making it impossible to replace or match. Continue

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Preston Hollow Home for Sale on 1.07 Acres

Privacy and Elegance of
Ravine Drive  $2,595,000

One of the grand and original estate homes of Preston Hollow is for sale. This English Style Preston Hollow home with 6,910 square feet is sited on Ravine Drive, a hidden street that curves around from Meadowbrook to Park Lane in the heart of Preston Hollow.

Estate Home Materials – Brick, Stone, and Slate

The materials in this gracious estate home reflect the quality of its era. Built in 1939, you will find this brick home to have a slate roof and been well maintained. The home’s very large formal rooms show its earlier importance and provide the spaces desired today. The informal living room is large by even today’s standards, as is the formal library and game room. Hardwood floors and original stained moldings provide warmth to the home.

Preston Hollow Estate Lot and Pool

Many will desire this property just for the land and location and abundant mature trees and pool. The home has two large second-floor terraces overlooking the garden, creating additional desirable space for you to enjoy. Continue

White Rock Lake Estate Property Sold

Two-Acres and 6,113 Square Foot Home
Overlooking White Rock Lake $2,495,000
or
Three-Acre White Rock Lake Estate
Property $3,300,000

This three-acre property is bounded by West Lawther in the front and Fisher Road in the back.  It is platted as a two-acre property with a 6,113 square foot home on West Lawther and a one-acre property that faces Fisher Road and overlooks a tennis court on the property and a park that is across Fisher Road.

White Rock Lake Home

While the property is being offered at land value for 3 acres, the 6,113 square foot home itself, on 2 acres, is an attractive and enjoyable place to live. The current homeowner was inspired by the Malibu campus which he was instrumental in developing when he was president of Pepperdine University. For his White Rock Lake home he insisted on the largest glass windows possible across the front of the house to capture the full views of the lake from the top of this Dallas hill overlooking White Rock Lake.

The living room, dining room and breakfast room overlooking the lake are open to the kitchen. The first-floor master bedroom and library also have beautiful views of the lake. An enormous informal living room and game room overlook the rear garden, tennis court and additional acreage.

White Rock Lake Home on Hill Overlooking the Lake

Here is a three-acre property with one of the prettiest views of White Rock Lake. High on the hill overlooking White Rock Lake, you will enjoy the long view of the lake, looking out at the sail boats in the distance.

Perfect Site on White Rock Lake

The coves and points of White Rock Lake give every home a different visual orientation. This White Rock Lake property is perfectly sited and enjoys the extra wide lots and acreage of its White Rock Lake neighbors. The expansive lake frontage of both neighbors expands your view and the privacy and serenity of this property. Continue

Preston Hollow Estate Property For Sale

Estate Home on 1.56 Acres For Sale  $2,995,000

The most valuable estate lots are made up not just of beautiful land with creeks, trees and topography, but are adjacent to a property with an even greater amount of land which accentuates the privacy and grandeur.  This estate property comprises 1.56 acres with a creek winding along the back of the property, and it is adjacent to a 6.5 acre estate property, protecting its views and providing an endless backdrop of trees and private land.

Max Sandfield Midcentury Modern For Sale in Mayflower Estates

Preston Hollow Home For Sale

Architect Max Sandfield designed this midcentury modern home for sale on a 1.13 acre site along the 25-acre Crespi / Hicks estate property. The result of this modern period home being located in the quiet and prestigious Mayflower Estates neighborhood and having 25 acres of estate land behind it, is a site that is secluded, prominent and private.

Mayflower Estates in Preston Hollow Neighborhood with Great Homes from Every Decade

Mayflower Estates is a hidden neighborhood with winding streets, creeks and lakes. Mayflower Estates has the largest estate homes in Preston Hollow and the coolest midcentury modern homes.

This Max Sandfield modern home for sale is a midcentury modern home that is buffered from three-story homes by the period architect designed homes beside it and the 12-acre garden of the Crespi / Hicks estate behind it. Continue

White Rock Lake Home for Sale

Estate Home on 3 Acres
Howard Meyer Designed in 1939  $4,200,000

Architect Howard Meyer designed this 5,000 square foot estate home on White Rock Lake in 1939. While Howard Meyer, FAIA, was best known for designing highrises, public buildings and sacred spaces, his architectural eloquence can be seen in his eclectic work, especially this estate home on a hill overlooking White Rock Lake.

Perfect Proportions and Architectural Detail

Architects designing homes derived from European styles often emphasize mood, historical detail and opulence. A modernist often thinks more of the space, proportions and engineering when designing an eclectic home.

The opulence of this estate home comes from the execution of this well-composed home and its integral details. Continue

Turtle Creek Real Estate and Modern Home for Sale

Turtle Creek Park Home on .58 Acres  $2,750,000

Set high on the private Turtle Creek Drive, this Turtle Creek land is the best site for a new modern home. Currently the existing home looks over the manicured lawn of a $20 million home to the view of Turtle Creek. The Dallas skyline is in the background in one direction, luxury Turtle Creek highrises in the other across the creek. Walk along the Katy Trail to West Village or Knox-Henderson.

This period modern residence enjoys the forested serenity of Turtle Creek Park and the energy of the city. Just two miles from the Arts District and a few blocks from Highland Park, this small, secure neighborhood is my favorite in Dallas.

On .58 Acres in Turtle Creek Park by the Katy Trail

Here you will find a 3,000 square foot period modern home that blends into the landscape and captures the pastoral and wooded views of Turtle Creek Park and the urban views of the city on the horizon Continue

Modern Home For Sale in Northern Heights

Contemporary Home Close to Katy Trail  $895,000

Here in the Northern Heights neighborhood that is found along the Katy Trail, on the edge of Highland Park and within walking distance to Knox/Henderson, West Village or Turtle Creek, you will find this three-story modern single-family attached three-bedroom home with a swimming pool. The home has large art walls and voluminous spaces.

Sunlight Fills Single-Family Attached Modern Home

Sunlight pours into this home, illuminating the open kitchen and breakfast room. A two-story space for the living room also collects sunlight and opens onto the balcony and terrace.

Neighborhood of Architect Designed Homes

In Northern Hills and Northern Heights you will find early 20th century historic single-family homes, architect-designed modern homes, attached single-family homes and townhouses. This small, protected neighborhood is close to what is best about Dallas. Continue

Lakeside Drive Estate Home

In Highland Park Overlooking Turtle Creek  Sold

This Highland Park estate home on Lakeside Drive, the most prestigious street in Old Highland Park, has the most beautiful views of Turtle Creek. Inside the house or on the front terrace, you are looking across the lilly pads and great expanse of water framed by azaleas and distant views of the sweeping lawns of magnificent estate properties. The Mediterranean style reflects original Highland Park, the clean design of open rooms conveys a sense of modernity.

White Rock Lake Estate Home for Sale

Estate Property on Four Acres  $4,800,000

Architect Ted Larson, Contractor Randy Clowdus, Landscape Architect David Hocker

On approximately four acres, the most beautiful elevated point of White Rock Lake with 356 feet of frontage, you will find this 1936 renovated estate home. The talents of architect Ted Larson, contractor Randy Clowdus, and landscape architect David Hocker are showcased in this remarkable estate property offered for sale.

Architect Ted Larson Oversaw the Renovation

Ted Larson, AIA, of Larson & Pedigo Architects, oversaw the renovation of this proud estate home originally owned by the oldest son of H.L. Hunt. The interior design of this home is approached as a stately lake house, conjuring up images of iconic lake houses in New England or maybe Wisconsin or Michigan where homes sit up from a lake with the wide front lawn descending to the water. The interior playfully accentuated the sense of a lake house along with the graciousness of Texas. The warm honey and amber colored white oak (sealed not stained) six-inch wide plank ceiling, cabinetry, trim, and baseboards reflect a Texas quality as they play off the wide plank walnut floors. The color palette of this home on White Rock Lake responds to the outside, including the lake, wildflowers, meadows, stone, 200 year old oaks, and forested edges of the property. Continue

Lakewood One Acre Lot For Sale Near White Rock Lake

Close to White Rock Lake  $1,200,000

The most attractive one-acre lot on Fisher Drive. It looks over a greenbelt and is around the corner from White Rock Lake. Building site is elevated high off the street and land is lined with trees. A beautiful site for a Lakewood home.

Old Highland Park Home Across from Gardens of Town Hall

Highland Park Neighborhood  Sold

Highland Park is loved for its beauty, safety and homes. This 1915 original Highland Park home enjoys the views of the gardens and creek of Highland Park Town Hall. This Highland Park residence also enjoys a glimpse of the ornately detailed Spanish Colonial-style Highland Park Town Hall tower designed by architects Lang and Witchell.

Advantageous Highland Park Location

Receded behind this Highland Park home is the finest modern home designed by Scott Lyons and gardens designed by Arthur and Marie Berger, sited on an acre of land. Here you will have the opportunity to purchase an original Highland Park home on arguably the safest site in Highland Park, and a home with one of the greatest proximities to Prather Park and Davis Park, Hackberry Creek and the beautiful landscape of Highland Park. For more information on this listed home that will be coming on the market call 214-522-1000. Continue

Highland Park Contemporary Home

On Block With Entrance to Katy Trail  Sold

Landscape architect Thomas Armstrong is attributed with the design of this modern home he had built for himself. It is sited on a Highland Park block with an entrance to the Kathy Trail. Raised from the street, the flat roof and geometric blocking convey its modernity.

A Design That Creates Privacy on a Highland Park Lot

An entrance court hides the front door from public view. An interior wall of windows brings into view the forested side courtyard. The perimeter row of cypress trees hides the neighboring home and provides a tranquil canopy to this serene and private outdoor space.

Open Spaces Linked by Hall Lined With Windows

The transition from the outside begins with the terraced steps wrapping around the front motor court to the entrance court. The front door opens to a combined entrance and large living area that share 12-inch polished Italian ceramic tile floors and a composition of windows that allows you to look out over the front garden and side courtyard. Continue

Lionel Morrison Modern Home

Architect Designed Modern House  Sold

Here is a Lionel Morrison architect designed 3,100 square foot home enjoying the luxury of a .70 acre Preston Hollow site. Open spaces and walls of glass looking into the garden convey modernism at its best. Stylish and efficient space makes this home both glamorous and manageable. Continue

Preston Hollow Lot for Sale

Best Location - Extraordinary Site  Sold

Here is a site suitable for an architecturally significant home. The lot is wide, deep, surrounded by trees and other expensive architect designed homes. Even more important, the neighboring Bud Oglesby designed modern home and the Charles Dilbeck designed 1934 home are built on very small footprints.

These bordering homes are renovated, expensive and take up very little space in relationship to the size of their approximately 1.3 acre estate properties filled with trees and the edge of a small lake.

Estate Property is Over 200 ft Wide and 200 ft Deep

A wide lot provides distance from your neighbors. A deep lot allows you to place the home back on the lot and still have a rear garden large enough for a pool, gazebo, sculpture garden and terraces. An ordinary narrow and long lot begs for privacy and has land in the back that is not easily accessible and is always underutilized. A site more evenly proportioned, like this wide and deep lot, allows a home to be perfectly placed, with views of gardens in every direction. Continue

Versailles Park Accentuates Original Highland Park Home for Sale

Estate Home on 100' Wide Lot  Sold

A Highland Park estate home offered for sale that embodies all the underlying qualities that make Highland Park one of the most beautiful and prestigious townships in the nation. Here is the architectural elegance from America’s Golden Age of estate home architecture on a wide, graceful lot with magnificent magnolia and oak trees.

Architects Goodwin and Tatum designed this home with a sweeping staircase and spacious rooms overlooking a park that appears as if it was designed for this Highland Park home.

Early Estate Home Sited on Most Romantic Location In Highland Park

Everyone knows and feels the lure of Highland Park. The most talented landscape architect in America designed Highland Park around a series of parks and boulevards. The glorious setting attracted society architects and patrons with great taste, creating a neighborhood of refinement and beauty. Flippen Park, informally known as Versailles Park reflects the romance, grace and flowering abundance of Highland Park. Versailles Park subtly inspires and its serene beauty calms. Paths lead up to a splendid gazebo, a fountain flows in a long, lazy pool of water and the park is filled with azaleas and lush grass, inviting a stroll or frolicking. Continue

Most Elegant Home in Vaquero

Vaquero Club Home Offered For Sale  Sold

The interiors of this 7,000 square foot home have been refinished with style and elegant materials. You will find an alabaster fireplace, amethyst sink and backsplash and other gem quality stone throughout the house and fixtures. Long slabs of very dramatic granite set off the kitchen, wet bar and service areas.

Wide plank hardwood floors combined with sweeping porches and verandas with long Texas views are reminiscent of the best Texas homes.

Walls of windows allow sunlight to stream across this entire Westlake, Vaquero home.

Besides the grand staircase there are two elevators that take you to the second floor. This floor includes the master bedroom, children’s rooms and guest rooms and a game room opening to a large balcony porch with spectacular views of the golf course. This stone home is sited along the golf course in a way that the golf course is seen as an endless greenbelt. You will enjoy the privacy and seclusion. Continue

Preston Hollow Modern Home for Sale

Spectacular Preston Hollow Acreage and Value  Sold

The 2.63 acres is perfectly located to enjoy the 40 acres of ascending tree tops on the neighboring 25 acre Hicks and 15 acre Phillips estates both of which adjoin President George and Laura Bush’s Mayflower estate home. The property is spread along 460 feet of a spring fed creek and small lake. Views of a 10 acre private garden across the creek enhance the tranquility and privacy of this site.

The incredible width of this estate property allows ample room for a tennis court adjacent to the 3,800 square foot Nick Glazbrook designed guest house. A large swimming pool, terraces, gardens, mature trees, rugged ravine, broad grass meanderings along the creek and small lake which relate visually to the beautiful garden views of the adjacent estate properties.

One of Dallas’ Most Important Modern Homes Designed in Last 25 Years

Architect Scott Lyons designed what is considered one of the most important and well built modern homes found in Dallas. This 9,902 square foot modern residence and 3,800 square foot guest house is a very private and aesthetically pleasing expression of an indigenous Texas style. It is a home of quality, built with extraordinary materials and engineering and has beautiful views of land, trees, a creek and a lake. It includes the primary residence, three-car garage and pool on 1.4 acres and a separate guest house on the adjoining 1.23 acres. Continue

Renovated Midcentury Modern Home $975,000

Jan Mar Home for Sale on .43 Acres in Jan Mar Neighborhood  Sold

Ideally located in the Janmar neighborhood of Preston Hollow, between Royal Lane and Forest Lane, on a wide sweeping lot facing Eudora. This four-bedroom. three and one-half bath midcentury home in Janmar, with a standing seam metal roof, has been beautifully renovated with the landscape designed by landscape architect Jeff Bargas. Continue

Midcentury Modern Home

University Park Residence of Architect  Sold

Max Sandfield designed this home for his own residence acting as architect and client. Max Sandfield was able to be more daring. He designed one of the first modern homes in Dallas capturing the architectural elements we now so closely associate with this revered architectural period.

The family has agreed that I will be able to offer this home at the value of its 75 foot by 150 foot lot with a deed restriction that it cannot be torn down. We are in the last decade of an era where original owners are offering their 50 year old midcentury homes for sale. It is essential these homes remain as a reflection of an era and as the original examples of a style that is being vigorously revisited and appreciated through new construction and design. Continue

Highland Park Homes For Sale

Classic Highland Park Home For Sale
Spacious Lot on Bordeaux  Sold

Seldom will you find a full two-story, gracious Highland Park home with four bedrooms for under one million dollars. Here you have the opportunity to purchase just such a property, a Highland Park home with 3,000 sf, light-filled rooms, and a timeless design on a spacious lot.

Four bedroom Highland Park Home

You will find this historic four bedroom, three and one-half bathroom Highland Park home on Bordeaux in the middle of a long block of stately homes. The second floor master bedroom has wide opening to library and sitting room. The second, third and fourth bedrooms are also found on the second floor. Continue

Renovated Midcentury Modern Reminiscent of Palm Springs

Midcentury Modern Renovated Home on .67 Acres  Sold

Total renovation accentuates the Palm Springs modern look and feel of this midcentury home, wrapping around a pool and terraced lawn. Rooms are open and relate to each according to the occasion: elaborate entertaining, formal dinners, backyard barbecues, or having fun with close friends and family.

Modernity Meets Midcentury

The home’s travertine floors in the living room, dining room and hall are laid in 24 inch squares. Doors and windows have been raised to ceiling height. The Pozzi doors have kick locks and the windows open from the bottom to enhance natural ventilation. A sleek, wide fireplace and recessed art lighting create a sensuous atmosphere. The walls of windows provide dramatic views of the garden, courtyards and pool from different angles and perspectives. Continue

Green Architecture Dallas

Gary Olp, Architect  $1,350,000

Green architecture, modern design, and Bluffview setting. The result is a dynamic home, environmentally sound, one that is bold and graceful, and a home that celebrates the attractiveness of the Bluffiview neighborhood.

Bluffview Modern Home on .52 Acres

Whether it is geothermal conditioned air and heat, a natural thermal chimney, or the use of energy saving or renewable materials, this Gary Olp designed home has been celebrated as a landmark for the direction of architecture and construction.

Rather than a democratic distribution of space among four bedrooms, this home emphasizes the open public spaces on the first floor and the private master bedroom suite and balcony on the second floor. In addition to the master bedroom suite, there are two bedrooms, another full bath and an office on the second floor. A full bath on the first level can also be used as a cabana bath. A simple structure and outdoor shower relate to the pool. Continue

Beverly Drive - Stylish and Open

Highland Park Real Estate  Sold

Highland Park and Highland Park Village drew much of its architectural inspiration and Mediterranean architecture from Beverly Hills, California. In this original 1920s Highland Park estate home you see Beverly Hills reflected in both the Mediterranean architecture and the California modern approach to the complete renovation.

Highland Park Significant Home

Original detail is preserved and a Four Seasons style luxury is added. The floor plan is incredibly open, allowing full views of four rooms and the pool terrace.

The period glass, mosaic tile, carved stone and wrought iron rails resonate with the expectations of an architecturally significant Highland Park home. The sleek finishes, repeating arched openings and glass double doors allow natural light to fill every room. The expansive kitchens’ gorgeous granite, stainless steel appliances and hardwood floors echo the clean elegance of the rest of the home. Continue

Bent Tree Modern Home

Architect Frank Welch Designed on 1.08 Acres  Sold

Frank Welch, FAIA, designed this modern home for the prominent family who developed Bent Tree. It is no wonder they chose this lot for their own modern estate home. Preston Trails golf course and a greenbelt wrap around this home, providing several acre views of green with a backdrop of forest in the distance.

An exterior of stacked white cubes creates a graceful composition of geometric shapes and an interior of voluminous spaces and an exterior of over 1,000 feet of wrap around verandahs, balconies, courtyards and elevated decks. Continue

International Style Modern Home

James Nagle Architect Design
Spectacular Home Offered at Land Value  Sold

Sited on two beautiful acres and backed up to a greenbelt, this asking price reflects just land value and the fabulous architect designed home is an incredible bonus. Located in Bent Tree, this is the finest International Style modern home built in Dallas since the International Style home designed by Roscoe Dewitt, AIA, for Stanley Marcus on acreage in 1937.

James Nagle, FAIA, designed this modern home on two acres in Bent Tree in 1976. The clean, sharp edged lines slice through its pastoral setting, with walls of windows and glass doors looking out over the vast lawns and the backdrop of a green belt. This International Style modern home is dramatic and elegant for entertaining and at the same time efficient, and with five bedrooms, suited for a large family. Sports courts, two pools, and a separate building used as an entertainment center furthers the recreational flexibility of this contemporary residence in Bent Tree. Continue

White Rock Lake Real Estate

White Rock Lake Home on 2.5 Acres  Sold

This charming White Rock Lake home on 2.5 acres is ideal for a small family or as a close-in second home. The 203 foot wide lot offers the best views of any site on the lake. This approximately 2,920 square foot two-bedroom home has large living and entertaining spaces. Also, the home has additional structures for guest quarters and a private office.

Majestic Setting on White Rock Lake

The wide rolling front lawn frames the lake. The seasonal flocks of aquatic birds join the sail boats floating across the horizon. Once you are high up on this land, or on the front porch or inside the home looking out a window, you will fully realize the beauty and tranquility of White Rock Lake and this residential setting. The deep expanse of lawn behind the house finishes with a tennis court, furthering the majestic estate feeling of this Lakewood home. Continue

Dallas Midcentury Modern

Dallas 50's Modern Style Home for Sale  Sold

The original owners of the last standing, architect designed, pristine condition, midcentury modern home in Preston Hollow have asked me to offer this architecturally significant home for sale.

In 1957 the stylish and sophisticated owners assembled an incredibly talented team to design a midcentury modern home. Continue

O’Neil Ford Designed Texas Modern

Turtle Creek Park Home  Sold

O’Neil Ford was brilliant when it came to selecting sites for the homes he designed. Here, O’Neil Ford selected the top of the hill in Turtle Creek Park, alongside Rock Creek. This site enjoyed splendid views of the forested Rock Creek as it makes its way down to join Turtle Creek.

Elevated rooms of multi-paned windows and doors

A person walks up to the front door of the 4,100 sf home and proceeds past the entry hall to the living room with three walls of glass. Because of the dramatic grade of the lot you are now essentially looking over the back yard and garden from a two-story elevation. The expansive, elevated terrace becomes a daily living space as it is accessible from the formal and informal living areas and kitchen. Continue

Perfect Family Home

Hal Yoakum and John Astin Perkins Designed
Preston Hollow Home With Real Value 1.288 Acres  Sold

Here is the perfect family home: beautifully fenced property with landmark trees, enormous living areas, several family bedrooms, guest rooms, maid’s quarters and guest house, five garage bays, massive amounts of storage space, large pool with diving rock, generous hardscape and yard for children, many courtyards and gardens for the family. Continue

Mediterranean Modern Home on .25 acres

Highland Park Home  Sold

This modern interpretation of a Beverly Hills home expresses itself perfectly in Old Highland Park. Built in the last 12 years, the Mediterranean home was totally refurbished, stylistically enhanced and the modernity accentuated.

Highland Park Tranquility

A series of arched openings and courtyard with a fountain make the transition from the peaceful tree-lined block of Cornell to the formal two-story entrance hall.

Modern Elegance in Highland Park

The large mahogany framed sliding glass doors are part of the glazed walls found on both ends of the informal living room. In one direction your full view is of a side garden and play area for the children. In the other direction there is a full view of the terrace, gardens and pool. When entertaining with both of the wide glass doors open, the front garden, the living area, rear garden, pool and terrace all become one space.

Stylish for Entertaining, Perfect for a Family

The formal living room with fireplace has tall ceilings, expansive windows, hardwood floors and walls finished and lighting established for art. The large kitchen and breakfast room with views of the pool is warm, sleek and open to the informal area with tall ceilings and limestone floors. The formal dining room will accommodate elaborate dinner parties or family gatherings. A study serves as a personal retreat. Continue

Preston Hollow Real Estate

Dallas Estate Property on 1.04 Acres  Sold

Here is a 1.04 acre site that defines a perfect Preston Hollow setting. On the highest elevation of a secluded street, looking across a circle park that separates the surrounding multi-acre estate homes, this property has endless views of a green landscape and tall mature trees that recede in the distance with barely a glimpse of any other homes. Continue

Edwardian Estate Home

Preston Hollow 5.3 Acres  Sold

Here is a proper estate property. A splendid approach curves along a creek up to a magnificent home articulated in stone and brick, surrounded by wide manicured lawns and a wooded perimeter.

Larry Boerder, AIA, Designed

Other 14,000 square foot homes in Dallas have been built, but where do you find one that is private and gracious, removed from a road, and not in sight of other homes. In what other city within eight miles of an internationally recognized Arts District can you find such architectural and bucolic excellence.

Larry Boerder, defining great architecture in Dallas, pulled from the eclectic European vocabulary of the Edwardian estate homes to design this architectural master work. Grand rooms with tall arched windows overlook the gardens. A sumptuous mahogany library with mixed wood floors including burled walnut is breathtaking, elegant and inviting. Continue

Preston Hollow Classic Home

Preston Hills Neighborhood  Sold

You will enjoy the stylish, open floor plan. A large kitchen with spacious butler’s pantry, full island, and granite countertops opens to the 19’ vaulted ceiling great room with a sleek offset wet bar, including refrigerated wine storage also finished with granite countertops. A fireplace is flanked with Shawn Kerr custom built-in 10 foot armoires. A wall of windows overlooks a rear garden and 30’ swimming pool with five sheer decent fountains. A silver mist flagstone patio, outdoor fireplace, gas grill hookup, and tree lighting add to the fully landscaped back yard that includes windmill palms, yuccas, azaleas, banana, fig ivy, hibiscus, birds of paradise, and mature trees.

The first floor master bedroom suite also enjoys views of the pool and garden. The master bathroom has custom frosted glass, double vanities, a jetted tub and walk-in shower with a bench. Formal and informal staircases take you to the second floor bedrooms, exercise room and true media room with electronics closet. Multiple attic spaces along with large closets provide much storage space. Continue

Lionel Morrison Architect Designed Home

Town House Modern  Sold

Architect Lionel Morrison designed his finest modern town house at 4331 Travis. Beautiful natural light and low voltage light illuminate this stunning 3,865 square foot residence. Continue

New England Style Estate Home

Preston Hollow Real Estate - 1.4 Acres  Sold

This New England inspired Georgian style estate home is reminiscent of the finest early estate homes in Dallas. Classic lines, period moldings and graceful proportions of the formal rooms define an architecturally elegant home. Set on nearly one and one-half acres, you will enjoy the distant views of the immense lawn framed by the garden.

England style estate home

The warm comfort of this estate home extends to the commodious guest bedroom suite, and the informal rooms, including a proper library, a charming sun porch, large breakfast room, tasting room and wine cellar, and full finished basement for recreational use. Found on one of the finest estate streets in the Preston Hollow Neighborhoods, you will enjoy the timeless benefits of estate living in Dallas. Continue

Bud Oglesby Architect Designed Home

Katy Trail/Knox Street/Turtle Creek Real Estate  Sold

Tucked back from Travis and Armstrong there is an exquisite period piece of Modernism. This is the best Bud Oglesby designed condominium I have seen. The protected and intimate scale of these residences is quite elegant in a setting of restaurants and galleries. The interior designer and lighting designer have reinterpreted this approximately 2,100 square foot space with the finest current lighting, hardware and materials. Continue

Highland Park Real Estate

Lorraine  Sold

Found on an ample lot in the middle of the first section of Highland Park, this eclectic home’s majestic bearing comes from its placement high off the street on its elevated lot. A slate roof, large divided light windows and elegant design contribute to its pleasing presence.

Sympathetic additions allow a kitchen opening to a family room, a guest suite of master bedroom proportions and a balcony wrapping around two wings of the house overlooking the garden. Recent finishes and refinements give this 1936 home a current appeal. Continue

Bill Booziotis Architect Designed

Christopher Place Real Estate/Turtle Creek Real Estate  Sold

Architect Bill Booziotis designed this 3,760 square foot home in the small, gated enclave sharing a private park along Turtle Creek in Christopher Place. Recent renovations include a new kitchen, new bathrooms, and bamboo and Paduak wood flooring. Continue

Preston Hollow Real Estate

Edward Durell Stone  Sold

The same architect who brought international modernism to New York, designed the New York Museum of Modern Art and important buildings around the world, designed his most famous house in Dallas in 1956.

Edward Durell Stone was one of a handful of international architects who had the ability to design prominent skyscrapers, the symbol of the 20th century, modern museums looking at art and collections in a new way, and homes combining technology with humanity.

The open floor plan eliminates hallways in this 10,000 square foot home. The tall ceilings, walls of windows and glass doors celebrate light and the outside. Denby marble from Vermont, cut and polished in Italy connote elegance, the hand-carved arabesque wooden screens celebrate craftsmanship. The concrete pier and beam foundation reinforced with steel beams establish the quality of construction and renovation.

Courtyards create and protect outdoor space and provide the same sense of serenity on one acre as country estates on much more land. The peristyle extends views over vast amounts of landscaped land. This is the ultimate 1950s Mid-Century Modern home; a celebration of the clean edge of the machine and the soft hand of the artist. Please contact me, Douglas Newby, at 214.522.1000 if you are interested in purchasing or selling a significant home.

Greenway Parks Real Estate, Greenway Parks Neighborhood

Dallas Mid-Century Modern Home  Sold

The greenbelt wraps around this mid-century modern home designed by architects Hidell & Decker, protégés of George Dahl and Howard Meyer respectively. The 3,850 original square feet reflect coherent volumes and design. The floor plan is open with walls of windows and glazed openings exploiting the secluded green vistas. The open tread staircase is juxtaposed with a brick wall, steel struts and railing, and soaring glass. The extensive renovation celebrates the style and setting of this architect designed home. Here is a home that reflects a great neighborhood, value, and design. Continue

Mediterranean Estate Home on 2.37 Acres

Bluffview Real Estate  Sold

On a private street of estate and architect designed homes is this majestic Mediterranean home on 2.37 acres. Removed from the street, placed on the crest of a hill, landscape architects David Rolston and Robert Bellamy have created an environment accentuating the home and the tranquility of the site. This over 7,000 square foot residence, in every direction, overlooks beautiful landscaped gardens – formal gardens, informal gardens, cascading koi ponds, streams, and vast manicured lawns. You will quickly recognize the distinction of this estate property. Continue

Place des Vosges - Turtle Creek Neighborhood

Turtle Creek Real Estate  Sold

Number One, Place des Vosges is centered on a green island surrounded by the sophisticated and refined residences of prestigious Place des Vosges – the most elegant neighborhood in Turtle Creek. Continue

Highland Park Real Estate

Highland Park Modern  Sold

Architect James Langford who worked with I.M. Pei on the Meyerson Symphony Center, designed this spectacular Highland Park three-story residence with a rooftop pool and view of the Dallas skyline and the Katy Trail.

To learn more about this contemporary Highland Park neighborhood home with stunning, light-filled interior spaces, other examples of the finest Highland Park real estate, or another Dallas featured listing showcasing architect designed modern homes please call Douglas Newby at 214.522.1000. Continue

Classic Highland Park Home

Highland Park Real Estate  Sold

Designed by architect, Wade H. Klamberg in 1937, this classic Highland Park home resembles an Adams eclectic style with flourishes of carved detail reflecting the era. A center hall opens to the formal living room with 9 foot ceilings and floor to ceiling windows and a large informal living room opens to a courtyard that leads to the pool and cabana. Continue

Turtle Creek Real Estate

Turtle Creek Drive on .377 Acres  Sold

The stylish urban elegance of this home is combined with a 1/3 acre of land that stretches along the Katy Trail. The walls of split face cast stone and stucco further delineate the geometric composition of this three story home overlooking the greenbelt of Turtle Creek.

Second and third story windows and protected balconies provide views of downtown, Turtle Creek and the surrounding forest. Continue

Turtle Creek Real Estate, Turtle Creek Park, Dallas

Elegant 1925 Estate Home  Sold

This elegant and refined home is hidden in prestigious and serene Turtle Creek Park. Turtle Creek meanders along the back of the one-acre site and Rock Creek winds its way through the side of this private and wooded property. This elegant and refined home is hidden in prestigious and serene Turtle Creek Park.

Turtle Creek meanders along the back of the one-acre site and Rock Creek winds its way through the side of this private and wooded property. The rooms in this 5,000 square foot home are arranged to capture the view of the topography, creeks and adjacent acreage of forested land. Here you will enjoy one of Dallas’ great estate homes from the 1920s. Please contact me, Douglas Newby, at 214.522.1000 if you are interested in this home or another Dallas Featured Listing. Continue

University Park Real Estate

St Andrews Estate Home  Sold

Here in University Park, across from the Dallas Country Club, you will find a traditional setting and a contemporary and stylish home. You will enjoy the .43 acre site framed by towering trees and with endless views of green. While the sense of place is serene, the sense of design is dynamic. Continue

Parker Real Estate, Parker Texas

Texas Horse Property  Sold

In Dallas’ highest rated suburb you will find a well-conceived home architecturally suited to its environment, reflecting style, quality and exquisite finishes. How often do you see 5.6 acres of rolling pastures with a sophisticated home in a beautiful setting found in a community of only 800 properties? Continue

Howard Meyer Architect Designed Home on 2 Acres

Cochran Chapel Real Estate  Sold

Howard Meyer is best known for his very modern work at the mid-century. Also recognized in the AIA Guide to Dallas Architecture and by architectural historians is his splendid design of eclectic homes built in the 1930s. Located high on the hillside of Cochran Chapel is his finest Colonial Revival home in Dallas. Built in 1938, this architecturally significant home has an asymmetrical facade with a gabled roof, side wings, six and eight panel double hung sashes and a bay window reflecting both the style and this period of Colonial Revival architecture.

Stone paths and a beautiful canopy of trees add to the charm of this important residence. This home, differing in design from contemporary Howard Meyer homes, shares the graceful proportions and the compulsive attention to construction – the magic of Howard Meyer’s works. Continue

Sophisticated Preston Hollow Home

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This extraordinary home of architectural distinction is set back and turned away from the street, wrapping around a gracious courtyard garden, providing seclusion, security and serenity.

The highest quality renovation designed by architect Robbie Fusch emphasizes the views of the garden from the living room, extensive formal library, large master bedroom and verandahs. Elegant and European in scale are the formal entrance hall, receiving room and the series of tall pairs of divided light doors and transoms. The detailing is exquisite and the finish without flaw. Guest bedrooms on the second floor accommodate guests or returning family members. Continue

Northern Hills Real Estate

Featured Dallas Modern Home  Sold

This home on Armstrong represents one of the finest properties found in Northern Hills. It is strong architecturally and the quality of construction and renovation is superior. You will not find a kitchen with a more exciting, elegant and convenient design in a home under $1 million. Three sinks and a water source over the Viking stove just begin to tell the story of this kitchen out of Chicago by Rutt. The staircase in the front entrance hall creates a strong vertical element in this home. High ceilings and banks of tall windows and sunrooms surrounded by vertical windows emphasize the value of this residence. Continue

Preston Hollow Real Estate

Saint Michael's Drive  Sold

Bob James designed this AIA award-winning home to blend into the neighborhood and provide dramatic views by the surrounding creek and woods. With 3,450 square feet, it is both stylish and practical sited on one-half acre overlooking Royal Branch Creek and a public wilderness park behind it.

As you pass through the front facade of translucent glass that provides privacy from the street, you discover a splendid and open floor plan with expansive walls with a grid of horizontal windows separating the interior from the woods and rugged terrain of Royal Branch Creek and the park. The ambiguity of the interior and exterior space is further enhanced by the generous use of exterior materials within the home – exposed concrete floors, clear maple cabinetry and a subtle blend of texture, color and shadows. Continue

Preston Hollow Real Estate

Original Preston Hollow Estate  Sold

When we think about the graciousness of Preston Hollow, we picture an original estate home built on many acres in the 1930s. This Desco Estate quickly became a landmark in El Parado, the earliest addition of Preston Hollow. This 1936 neoclassical estate home, perfectly placed on its present two acres with mature trees arching over its graceful and stately architecture, remains a Preston Hollow landmark.

You will enjoy the expansive veranda before you proceed through the deep arched entrance to the formal hall. From here you will find the large, classically proportioned spaces of the living room, dining room, butler’s pantry, library, and sunroom that you would anticipate in a historic home. Sympathetically added is a large family room, an attached cabana and a separate guest house. On the second floor you will find four bedrooms, including an elaborate master bedroom suite. Continue

Beverly Drive Home

Highland Park Real Estate, Highland Park, Dallas  Sold

When you think of Highland Park, you think of Beverly Drive and the original gracious homes from the 1920s sited on wide lots. Here, you have a Beverly Drive home designed in 1928 on .26 acres, with high ceilings, original detailing and the elegance you expect in Highland Park.

The recent renovation accentuates the natural light and open rooms of this 4,190 square foot home. Please contact me, Douglas Newby, at 214.522.1000 if you are interested in purchasing or selling a significant home. Continue

Preston Hollow Real Estate

Dentwood  Sold

This Preston Hollow estate home was designed by Robbie Fusch on an acre lot that is cradled by the creek that meanders through the neighborhood. This delightful home is both formal and open, allowing the homeowners full enjoyment of the home and its surroundings. Continue

Greenway Parks Real Estate

Fooshee and Cheek Designed Home on .84 acres  Sold

In 1955 architects Marion Fooshee and James Cheek designed this graceful home in the heart of Greenway Parks. It is placed on the largest lot in the neighborhood and with views of the gently curving streets, triangle parks, greenways, the boulevard and fountain. This architect designed home has been unaltered for almost 50 years. It is an important contributing structure to the mosaic of architectural styles and shapes that perpetuate the charm and appeal of Dallas’ most successful 20th century neighborhood. Here is the finest opportunity to renovate and redefine an architecturally significant home in Greenway Parks. Continue

Crespi Estate

Crespi Estate
The Epitome of Preston Hollow Real Estate

Maurice Fatio trained in Switzerland and began his practice in New York. In the 1920s he was voted the most important architect in New York. His largest body of work is in Palm Beach and in Long Island where he built estate homes for society patrons and business tycoons.

Besides many important projects he designed outside of the US, he designed one of his most important, and his last large estate home in Dallas before he died in his mid 40s. This is Dallas’ most important estate home. The renovation and expansion by architect Peter Marino is in the process of being completed. Continue