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The home featured in this week’s column reminded me of this crazy movie my daughter had us watch. The movie in question is called “The Lighthouse.” It stars Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson portraying 1890s lighthouse keepers in New England. It’s partly based on the unfinished Edgar Allan Poe short story called, you guessed it,…
Kay Granger, Fort Worth’s first female mayor and the first Republican woman from Texas elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, died Sunday at her Fort Worth home. She was 83. Granger had been living with Alzheimer’s disease. Services have been set for 11 a.m. Aug. 22 at First United Methodist Church of Fort Worth,…
The first committee meeting back from summer break had council members squaring off at City Hall over a potential rule change that would allow a simple majority of the Dallas City Council to authorize new, replacement, or reopened city facilities. While the revision was part of an array of proposed changes to the city’s Financial…
One of Bedford’s largest remaining undeveloped properties is officially on the market after years of speculation about its future. The owner, Hurst‑Euless‑Bedford Independent School District, purchased the property in 1969, and its potential sale has been a hot topic of discussion for several years. Now the Tarrant County school district has opened bidding on the…
You can never tell a book by its cover. That is particularly true of this Caruth Hills Tudor cottage. The cheery white facade creates an expectation of an interior filled with William Morris wallpapers, Colefax and Fowler chintz, and country house charm. Think again. You are in for some real style and drama here. I…
Downtown Dallas’ transformation from a strictly business-oriented concentration of towers into an actual neighborhood of historic character is proceeding apace, with adaptive reuse projects in the West End revving up to counter the dour narratives haunting the city center. One conversion just got a significant boost in the form of property assessed clean energy financing…
