Dallas History
The past year has been full of firsts for me at 1500 Marilla. First there was the Planning Commission (who, as unpaid appointees, I wonder how the commissioners live) and then a full council session. Today I was last-minuted into attending a meeting of the Dallas Landmark Commission. Each new experience in the Dallas City…
Back in the 1970s, Munger Heights was a seedy neighborhood full of rent-by-the-room boarding houses and dilapidated old homes desperate to be shored up should they catch a stiff breeze. Homeowners and activists saw the area for what it was — full of potential — and created a revolving fund to buy the homes at…
Right now, 4901 Live Oak isn’t much more than a pile of rubble. That’s despite a lot of outrage and manic phone calls to City Hall from preservationists. It’s not unlike the reports that streamed in about the Bishop Arts District building that was razed yesterday, or the proposed bulldozing of several cottages on 10th…
It’s a sad day for preservationists, as the red brick traditional at 4901 Live Oak that was once the center of a fierce neighborhood zoning debate comes down. We knew this day was coming, but we still felt unprepared for the carnage we witnessed. This is one of those situations where we have to look…
A CandysDirt.com reader sent us these photos yesterday of the home at 4910 Live Oak, the 95-year-old home Adam and Alicia Rico hoped to transform into a chic wedding venue. That was until neighbors of the dilapidated duplex came out in full force against the rezoning effort. “We knew that the process of zoning takes…
