Karen Eubank
Karen is a senior columnist at Candy’s Media and has been writing stories since she could hold a crayon. She is a globe-trotting, history-loving eternal optimist who would find it impossible to live well without dogs, Tex-Mex, and dark chocolate. She covers luxury properties and historic preservation for Candys Dirt.
Finding a Charles Dilbeck cottage in the East Dallas neighborhood of Cochran Heights is akin to finding the proverbial needle in a haystack. They seldom come up for sale. But you are in luck today! Cochran Heights is one of our oldest neighborhoods, with only about 240 homes. Its Walk Score is a whopping 88, meaning…
Once upon a time, flying was a glamorous event, and flying on Braniff International Airlines was the pinnacle of stylish travel. If you never experienced the glam years of travel, don’t know anything about Braniff, or simply want to relive the glory days, you’ll want to attend their upcoming conference on September 14. No other…
Rock Cliff Place is one of those streets you think cannot possibly exist in Dallas. After all, most people have a mental image of luxury real estate in our fair city. It’s seldom an architecturally significant Midcentury Modern home surrounded by so many trees you’d think you were in the middle of Connecticut, but here…
We all know when we find a house that whispers to us, “You’re home.” That was what Gracie McCrary and her husband Gerardo Ortiz experienced when they walked in the front door of this charming Kessler Highlands cottage. “I’d been in New York for a decade and was wondering where I’d find my fit,” McCrary…
UPDATE 8/23 11 p.m.: An eagle-eyed resourceful reader sent us the demo permit, issued on August 1, for the Cox Mansion. It was demolished on August 23. We’ll continue to follow up on this story. On the corner of Preston and Beverly Drive sat the most astonishing mansion Dallas has ever seen. Most people knew…
