Eric Prokesh
Eric Prokesh is an award-winning interior designer who calls Fort Worth his home.
I’m suspicious of motives behind phrases such as “highest and best use,” which are intended to offer a moral justification for razing older properties. With its oversized lots and access to first-rate Tanglewood Elementary School, the many smaller 1960s ranch-style houses that average 2,500 square feet have proved tempting targets for teardown and redevelopment. Many…
It’s always a pleasure to visit Park Hill, one of our favorite Near Southside neighborhoods, and listings here come up infrequently. And this stately Park Hill villa is abundant in the myriad details one expects in these fine 1920s vintage houses. This one at 2217 Winton Terrace West was built in 1927 and has been…
The Fort Worth Northside has been on my mind of late, realizing that in my seven years writing Fort Worth Friday I’ve not written one post about this interesting and historically important sector of the city, which has also been a vital part of the city’s development and economy. This week I lucked out big…
The perhaps semi-hackneyed and overused Realtor-speak “curb appeal” jargon seems woefully insufficient to describe this lovely Park Hill perch at 2420 Lofton Terrace. Park Hill is one of the loveliest Near Southside neighborhoods, and this assiduously renovated gem is nothing short of enchanting. It’s difficult to imagine that this house, with its rich repertoire of…
Your Fort Worth Friday correspondent likes to stay on top of the market, so I’m happy this week to bring a great listing only hours old. And it’s in my own beloved Ryan Place, within walking distance of my house. I confess to being a being a full-on neighborhood chauvinist, but Ryan Place has such…
