Iconic Frank Welch Northern Heights Home Speaks For Itself
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Some listings are so great, you almost want to just stand back and let them speak for themselves. A home built by a master architect is inevitably one of those, and a writer is just as inevitably unable to stand back and let it speak for itself. But this week’s Highlight Home of the Week, sponsored by Senior Loan Officer Lisa Peters of First Horizon — a Frank Welch design in Northern Heights, speaks volumes.
A Significant Name, Significant Place
Northern Heights is this extraordinary little neighborhood known for its amazing homes designed by some of the most significant architects in Dallas — names like Cliff Welch, Lionel Morrison, Max Levy, and of course, Frank Welch.
It’s a beautiful area, surrounded by trees, and yet walking distance to both the Katy Trail and all the nightlife and shopping of the Knox Park area. Homes coming available here are rare, and this one will get snapped up immediately.
Faisal Halum of Compass Real Estate has the listing at 3509 Cragmont Avenue, and if the agent and the address sound familiar it is because the adjacent townhome at 3511 Cragmont is Welch’s own original home, sold after his death in 2017, and again in 2022 (the sale for which Halum brought the buyer).
A resident of Northern Heights himself, Halum is known for selling architecturally significant homes. “This is the mirror image to Frank’s personal residence,” Halum said.
3509 Cragmont Avenue
Let’s begin upstairs in the living area. When we enter the house, a staircase leads to the second level and this beautiful space. Blond hardwoods, museum-style walls, and one of two fireplaces. The wall of windows opens to a balcony that looks over the courtyard, and the view is like a painting.
The Perfect Package
Here, we’re looking from the living room back toward the stairs, and you can see one of the dining areas, to the right, and the galley-style kitchen to the left. Welch has made the kitchen its own perfect space, able to be closed off with pocket doors, yet left it open at the top to let in the light with clerestory windows.
A second dining area lies on the other side of the kitchen, perfect for a breakfast nook, or casual dining. The casement windows on this side of the home serve to separate this space in a visual way from the rest of the room in an interesting way as well.
Primary Paradise
Also on this floor, we have the primary suite with its own balcony. It is spacious and made for luxury with a sitting area, separate baths, and walk-in closets.
This Is It
Downstairs, cross through built-in bookshelves to the recently converted den.
Halum said the current owners spend most of their time here, and who could blame them? The den features a wet bar with refrigeration and wine storage, the second of two fireplaces, and that wall of windows is a sliding glass door to paradise.
What do I even need to say? Frank Welch already dropped the mic.
Faisal Halum of Compass Real Estate has 3509 Cragmont listed for $2.1 million.
