oak park estates
Few architectural styles convert easily to today’s tastes and preferences. The Midcentury Ranch is a popular one, mostly because it is like a blank canvas. However, as more and more 1970s Contemporary homes hit the market, their popularity with renovation-minded buyers has grown likewise. This particular listing in Oak Cliff is no exception. Because of…
Read MoreYou know what we always say — read CandysDirt.com and share it with your friends. (Wink!) But also, if you are given the opportunity to purchase an architect’s personal home, do it. Immediately. No question. They’re the best. This is one of those houses, as you might have guessed. In a rather tragic turn of…
Read MoreWhat a cute little house in the original Oak Cliff suburbs. Back in the 1950s and 1960s, says Dave Perry-Miller’s DeCarla Anderson, when you got a promotion at the office and started a family, you headed to Oak Park Estates and Druid Hills. Here you would buy a lot and build your dream home. Today,…
Read MoreOak Park Estates is a little neighborhood off Interstate 67, just south of downtown Dallas. It’s hilly, it’s close-knit, and it’s filled with reasonably priced midcentury homes. Downtown is, like, 10 minutes away and Bishop Arts is even less, though good luck getting a parking space — except now, presumably? Though honestly cars are probably…
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