Historic Preservation
If you love home tour season as much as we do, don’t miss the annual Preservation Park Cities Historic Home tour, Friday, May 8 from 10 a.m to 1 p.m This is a one-day-only event featuring three of the most spectacular homes in Highland Park. In addition to the tour, there will be a collection…
Located outside Austin on the northern edge of the Texas Hill Country, the City of Georgetown is beautiful by many accounts, but a trip to historic downtown Georgetown offers what’s known by travel guides and reviewers as the most beautiful town square in Texas. The 1911 Williamson County Courthouse is a stunning testament to Beaux-Arts…
Alberto Garza is a dedicated daily runner. During the early stages of the pandemic, he expanded his running route from his Oak Lawn neighborhood to the Park Cities — and started noticing sidewalk stamps from the Klein Brothers. Little did he realize the answer would eventually lead to his Instagram account, Sidewalks of Dallas, and…
People often ask me what my favorite homes in D-FW are, and I really cannot answer that question. It takes me too long to think about it. But when I heard that PaigeBrooke Farm in Westlake was on the market, it hit me: PaigeBrooke is definitely at the tip-top of my all-time favorites. It is…
We generally equate the work of Charles Dilbeck with charming, somewhat quirky residential design. However, if you venture over to 610 W. Jefferson Blvd, you will find one of his most significant works — the El Ranchito restaurant, built in 1947 as Red Bryan’s Smokehouse. Preservation Dallas is honoring this example of Dilbeck’s commercial work…
