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By Rick Mauch Candy’s Dirt Contributor Affordable housing — both in single-family home ownership and multi-family leased housing — has, without question, become a challenge for many people in this country. Low-to-moderate-income workers are finding it harder and harder to afford a place, and many are being priced out of markets altogether. A Dallas-based national…
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By Jay Firsching One of the major challenges of my job in historic preservation is avoiding the research rabbit hole. While digging into an archive, you stumble upon an intriguing factoid and before you know it, you’ve squandered most of your day chasing a captivating story that’s completely unrelated to your actual research agenda. The…
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By Donovan Westover Coming forward from our previous tour home previews (1916, 1920, 1928, and 1950), we move further into midcentury and land in 1954 in the Glen Oaks neighborhood. The neighborhood was developed 1952 to 1967 on the historic Holland Farm. For homeowners looking for trees, hills, and greenery, this was your place. And,…
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By Donovan Westover Our next tour home preview takes us back to the year 1920 as we head over to the Sunset Hill neighborhood, which is behind Sunset High School. The approximately 1,000-household neighborhood was originally part of a 1,000-acre farm which was gradually divided for development in the 1890s. The first homes in the…
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By Donovan Westover Our home tour timeline takes us next to the year 1950 on Duval Drive in the Ravinia Heights neighborhood. There is a row of Dilbeck-esque houses sited on rather large lots and they are as magical as you would expect from Dilbeckian designs. Dilbeck Details on Duval Drive Charles Dilbeck was a…
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