Easton Place Is the Coolest Neighborhood in Dallas
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I’ve been fascinated with Easton Place since taking a wrong turn off Easton Road decades ago. In 2024, I did a deep dive to find out the history of this neighborhood filled with one-of-a-kind homes built with a deep respect for nature. While I won’t go into all of it here, you can read the post below for the complete history.
I’ll go back as far as 1970, the year the first Earth Day was observed, and the Environmental Protection Agency was created. Both are pertinent to this neighborhood’s genesis. The 1970s were one of the most transformative decades, especially in architecture. The environment and sustainability became topics everyone discussed largely due to the energy crisis. Green design tiptoed in, and architects began to explore locally sourced materials and create designs that embraced the natural surroundings.
California was a full decade ahead of Texas. Architects in the Golden State were studying developments like Sea Ranch, a 1960s eco-conscious community on the Sonoma County, California coast, and inspiration followed. If you simply look at Fort Worth’s modern minimalist 1972 Kimbell Art Museum by Louis Kahn and our own dramatic I.M. Pei City Hall, which started construction that same year, you will see that Texas was ready to charge into a new era of architecture with gusto.
While residential architecture seldom follows the boldest moves of commercial designs, it is definitely influenced by them. Easton Place is an example of risk-taking that paid off. The sale of 10 acres of prime East Dallas property to United Metro Development came with some restrictions. The most important one was that the trees were not to be cut down, and homes had to be built around the natural environment. Each home was designed to consider the location, the slope of the terrain, and the views, so what may seem unassuming from the curb will always surprise you when you step inside.
Today, we are lucky to still have this very modern community of only 31 homes growing among and around the trees. When homes hit the market here, it’s not surprising they move quickly. Compass agent Jason Thomas sold this 1976 contemporary for the first time in 2011 to New Leaf Custom Homes founders Scott and Melissa Powell. There could not have been better stewards for this house, as they understood the community. They remodeled the three-bedroom, two-and-a-half-bathroom home to perfection, and subsequent owners have beautifully maintained this Easton Place contemporary.
It’s not often an Easton Place home comes up for sale, so if you want to live in the coolest neighborhood in Dallas, you’d better get a move on!
Compass listing agent Jason Thomas has 965 Easton Place available for $999,900.
Open House: Sunday, April 19, from 2-4 p.m.
