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City Hall Roundup: Development Code Change Would Protect Tenth Street Historic Homes From Demolition

By April Towery / February 11, 2024 /
(Photo: Mimi Perez for CandyDirt.com)

…said she supports the removal of this section of the Dallas development code.  “It has disproportionately affected low-income districts including Tenth Street and Wheatley Place,” she said.  The ordinance as…

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The Juanita Craft Civil Rights House Opens Saturday

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / May 18, 2023 /

…and personal belongings. In late 2021 the foundation donated the remainder of her possessions to the library around the same time her house in the Wheatley Place Historic District near…

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Revitalizing South Dallas’ Wheatley Place Starts at School

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / February 23, 2023 /

…was established as the city’s finest Black suburb and named in honor of African American poet Phillis Wheatley. Building a School For Wheatley Place A temporary wooden school that lacked…

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School’s Out, Forever: What Do You Do With a Mothballed Building?

By Bethany Erickson / May 5, 2019 /
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…both have been the target of vandals as well. Wheatley Elementary (Photos courtesy City of Dallas) Wheatley Elementary opened in 1929, and sits in the historic Wheatley Place neighborhood, named…

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Tickets are Selling Out FAST for the Park Cities Historic & Preservation Society Luncheon

By Candy Evans / March 31, 2019 /
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…and Beaumont, to Tenth Street and Wheatley Place,  We care, too, deeply about the beautiful Midcentury Moderns in Dallas and want to see them preserved, too. We have a huge collection…

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