Historic Preservation
One can say the history of Dallas preservation runs deep and straight to Junius Heights. Longtime resident Martha Heimberg purchased her home in the neighborhood in 1973 for $26,500. She was there when the historic columns welcoming people to the neighborhood were moved to Column Park on Abrams Road. When she first moved to the…
Sometimes it’s hard to imagine a Midcentury Modern home as historic, but the definition of a historic home is anything over 50 years old. They seem too cool to be historic, don’t they? But they are and serve as a great lesson in historic preservation. Every time someone on social media tries to justify the…
Oakland Cemetery has become known for a handsome, strawberry-blond, very good boy named Rusty. Cemetery administrator Monica Newbury knows everyone loves a good dog tale. When she began including photos of Rusty on the cemetery’s Facebook page, interest in Rusty and this historic South Dallas resting place swelled. Over the past few years, that interest…
By Jim Anderson Jim Anderson’s final installation on trolley life in Dallas lends insight into some special buildings that have been beautifully adapted for our needs today. Catch up on last week’s edition, “Streetcars in Dallas Get Electric!“ In the 1920s, the Dallas streetcar system spawned an architectural icon unique to Dallas: The trolley stop…
By Jim Anderson Preservation consultant Jim Anderson, who has served the City of Dallas for 26 years as an urban planner in historic preservation, presents the second in his three-part series on the history of streetcars in Dallas. Catch up on last week’s “Tracks Through Time Part 1: Dallas and the Golden Age of Trolleys.“…
