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When Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper features a Colleyville English country manor house, it’s a reminder that Texas and England have had a longstanding love affair. The English are enamored of our cowboy culture, wide open spaces, and outgoing nature. We are in awe of royalty, the accent, and, of course, the English country manor house.…
By Donovan Westover Coming forward from our previous tour home previews (1916, 1920, 1928, and 1950), we move further into midcentury and land in 1954 in the Glen Oaks neighborhood. The neighborhood was developed 1952 to 1967 on the historic Holland Farm. For homeowners looking for trees, hills, and greenery, this was your place. And,…
Trees offer tons of benefits — from shade to environmental advantages to aesthetics — but it’s also within a developer’s rights to cut them down to make way for new buildings. Residents in Elm Thicket/Northpark told CandysDirt.com in September that the canopies that used to line their streets have gone by the wayside as new development…
For many years, engineering was a profession dominated almost exclusively by men. That “steel ceiling” has begun to be broken by a group of talented, determined women, but there is still work to do. To explore the issue, the Dallas Architecture Forum will present a panel discussion on the topic of “Women Engineers Shaping the…
Next weekend, 40 impressive works by 12 local artists are about the hit the auction block. Now in its third year, the 27th Annual David Dike Fine Art Texas Art Auction gets underway, benefitting Dallas 24 Hour Club.
Residents who live near Love Field are still mad about the noise generated by the city-owned airport, but for the most part, they appear to understand their adversary is not the City of Dallas; it’s the airlines that aren’t complying with a voluntary noise curfew. The Love Field Citizens Action Committee has been working with…
