Eric Prokesh
Eric Prokesh is an award-winning interior designer who calls Fort Worth his home.
I hadn’t expected to be back on Samuels Avenue after only one week. After researching and briefly documenting its former glory as Fort Worth’s first premier neighborhood, I took a drive down the avenue to get the lay of the land. Needless to say, there have been a few changes in the past 120 years.…
When Fort Worth began to make the transition from an abandoned military outpost to a proper town, its first wave of wealthy citizens made their homes to the northeast of downtown on a bend in the Trinity River. This was Samuels Avenue. The area was once part of a plantation that, after several sales, became…
Texas gained its independence more than 175 years ago, but the influence of its Spanish roots still captures our romantic imagination and inspires architectural tributes to that past. I have, from childhood, been enamored of the idiom and after many years have finally fetched a Texas Spanish style abode of my own. Come on in!…
More often than not, lakefront properties seem to fall short. Remove the lake and they don’t manage to hold their own without the scenic backdrop. On the market for 10 days, this lakeshore dreamboat at 8910 Dickson Road — on arguably the most desirable street on Eagle Mountain Lake — is such a stunner that I…
I am constantly being reminded of the uniqueness of Fort Worth and why I love it. Take Mistletoe Heights, for example. Mistletoe Heights is one of the Southside’s oldest and most venerable neighborhoods with a history dating back to 1890 when landowner Harvie C. Lawrie laid out the streets by setting a two-inch oak wagon…
