Architecturally Significant Dallas

Killer Highland Park O’Neil Ford Available for $7.5, Just Hit MLS

By Candy Evans / November 27, 2015 /

Here is a little teaser to whet your appetite because we plan to get ourselves inside this beauty once the rain ends. That cherry laminate in the kitchen! A most architecturally significant home NOT in MLS, weighing in at 9,000 square feet on just under an acre. Owners commissioned Ford to build their vision in…

Another Cole Smith Mansion Bites the Dust: R.I.P. 10650 Strait Lane

By Candy Evans / November 6, 2015 /

White columns are the way to a girl’s heart! This house always made me happy. There was a long red brick driveway with a row of magnolia trees lining it, and ponies and mules always traversed the almost four acres that led down to Bachman Creek on the east side. It was stately and elegant,…

R.I.P. 10300 Strait Lane: 1971 – 2015

By Candy Evans / August 31, 2015 /

Comes word that the tear down of the Bud Oglesby home at 10300 Strait came sooner rather than later. In fact, she is gone, her body laid to a fitful rest somewhere in Lewisville …

Mark Lamster Gives CD a Nice Nod on the DMN Arts Blog

By Candy Evans / August 20, 2015 /

He writes, of course, of the sad fate that is to befall 10330 Strait Lane, the “modern gem” designed by “Enslie” Bud Oglesby that we discovered is headed for a beheading, then a chop-down by bulldozer, with its final resting place to be some landfill in Lewisville. Hard to imagine Oglesby’s work meeting such a…

Clifford D. Hutsell Lakewood Treasure: Not Just One-of-a-Kind, the Perfect Home for Unordinary People

By Candy Evans / May 29, 2015 /

It’s hard to really define a “Dallas” home without thinking about the “structures” erected in the last 20 years, from the top-heavy wood-shingled maisons that look like skinny women with huge top-heavy boobs, to the McMansions and Mediterranean would-be meccas. Certainly the classic Dallas ranch is a home that defines us as much as a…