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Just a week after becoming president, Lyndon Baines Johnson picked up a ranch in Blanco County — Johnson City, to be exact — as a hideaway where he could relax a bit. That spread adjoined another parcel he had already picked up much earlier from an aunt, which is now for sale. Currently home to…
Sometimes you get lucky, and an original midcentury modern Arch Swank-designed home falls into your lap. This seldom happens, because they tend to stay in the same families for years, and Swank didn’t build a lot of personal residences. To find one, you have to get creative or have an innovative pal helping you. That’s…
Update: Readers tell me Ms. Malone lived on Livingston near Inwood Road, and lived her later years as a recluse. I had no idea that the great actress Dorothy Malone lived in Dallas. She moved here from Chicago with her family, attended Ursuline, Hockaday, and SMU, and then returned in 1971 when she married Charles…
Lake or ranch, lake or ranch … now you can have your lake and horses too! On SecondShelters.com, we’ve been following the luxury waterfront development The 505 Ranch on Cedar Creek Lake. The 505 Ranch has all the amenities of a posh lake community, plus equine facilities (polo, anyone?), too, and it’s only 45 minutes…
A rare opportunity in the fully occupied Omni Residences in the heart of downtown Fort Worth has just come to market — and it’s a stunner. A penthouse, No. 3203 on the 32nd floor, has a lavish, 4,330 square feet of living space, four bedrooms, four and one half baths, and three balconies. And then there…
Craving the lock-and-leave lifestyle? Looking to smart-size? Maybe you’ve been dreaming of owning a Knox-Henderson townhouse for so long, you can’t remember when your obsession first started? Well, here’s your chance, and at a price point that’s just right! This week’s Friday Four Hundred zeroes in on a designer end unit model in “The Block…
