Swiss Avenue

WFAA-TV’s Report on Aldredge House Tonight May Have Been Fake News

By Candy Evans / January 23, 2018 /

I was just alerted to the story WFAA-TV’s Tanya Eiserer ran on the 5 pm news this evening depicting a recent supposedly “noisy music wedding” at Aldredge House. It came on the personal Facebook page of Dallas Observer reporter Jim Schutze. Here’s the thing: Schutze was at the wedding. Eiserer said that “loud parties continue…

Aldredge House: Board of Adjustment Denies W/O Prejudice Request for “Nonconforming Use” On Swiss Avenue, But Where ARE the Red Panties?

By Candy Evans / October 22, 2015 /

I had a personal stake in this dog fight, as I have mentioned before: I’m a proud member of the Dallas County Medical Alliance and I do not want us (the DCMA Foundation) to lose Aldredge House. Never ever. It’s a beautiful home, one of the few open historic homes left in town, and it…

Aldredge House: The Power of Video, Bad Employees, and Big Closets

By Candy Evans / October 21, 2015 /

Update: Precious Jo North, friend and fellow Alliance member, tells me that we made a lot more than $30,000 on the home tour. Co-chair Sandi Ciarochi and the team brought in $112,000, the second highest fund raiser in DCMSA history! (I just don’t have a head for numbers.) The Prescription Texas Luncheon with then-Governor Rick…

The Swiss Avenue Historic District Met Last Night At Aldredge House… Standing Room Only

By Candy Evans / September 16, 2015 /

Guest post by Harryette Ehrhardt, founder & past president of the Swiss Avenue Historic District My husband Jack and I bought our house on Swiss Avenue in 1970, three years before Swiss Avenue was a historic District. We worked on the formation of the District and also the founding of Preservation Dallas. I have represented…

Channel 4’s Take on the Nightmare on Swiss Avenue & Aldredge House: Meet the Neighbors!

By Candy Evans / September 14, 2015 /

Channel 4’s Fox 4 News did their version of the Nightmare on Swiss Avenue that neighbors allege the wedding business at Aldredge House is causing. I’m not saying anything except, watch: