Dallas Architectural Wonders
Originally posted on December 7, 2011, when this blog was just a toddler, PaigeBrooke Farm remains one of the most amazing properties in North Texas. Not only is it a ranch house originally designed by one of Dallas’ most famous architects, it was commissioned by a prominent Dallas family. Even more: the home was lovingly…
Update 10:59 a.m: Kelly tells me the CBS producers have postponed the story for a week or two, because they didn’t want to cut the piece to fit into a shortened time slot. We will keep you posted! This is a home that has never left my heart, and never will. I have always thought…
It’s not too late to get yourself over to the Dallas City Performance Hall (park at One Arts, easier) for CONFAB: A Dallas parks Foundation Conversation. Sponsored this year by the fine folks at The Advocate Magazine, this is the third annual Arts District worthy conversation series about parks, trails and public spaces –…
As we reported in January, the now-empty Lakewood Theater has an interested suitor, the Alamo Drafthouse, and negotiations are quite a ways along now. Property co-owners Craig Kinney and Bill Willingham of Willingham-Rutledge talked to multiple restaurants and businesses that could fill the historic space in various incarnations, located at 1825 Abrams Pkwy. in East Dallas.…
I met up with Elizabeth Mast at 5803 Swiss Avenue, the beautiful brick home where Neiman Marcus founder Carrie Marcus Neiman lived her last days. This home built by Carrie Marcus and her then husband, Abraham Lincoln Neiman, which sits at the corner of Swiss Avenue and Skillman, may not have the columns and beams of…
