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Steel Toe Stiletto Kicks Life Into Aging Munger Place Home

By Joshua Baethge / July 24, 2019 /

In the mid-1940s, not long after World War II ended, a woman moved into the Munger Place home at 710 Dumas Street. Her two sisters lived on the same block.  She would remain there seven decades until leaving for an assisted living facility last year. When she moved out, the 1921-built home still had many…

A Glamorous French Chateau Overlooking Turtle Creek Hits the Market

By CandysDirt / July 11, 2019 /

If you find your mind drifting off to the French countryside—where wine, cheese, and picturesque landscapes abound—then this spectacular home in Highland Park is just right for you. Offering all that and more in one of Dallas’s most coveted locations, this French-inspired abode looks out onto Turtle Creek for an utterly serene and luxurious atmosphere…

Take A Hike And Hit This Grapevine Home For July Fourth Fun

By Nikki Barringer / July 2, 2019 /

We hear it a lot, right? “Amazing location. Must see.” And with a fair amount of skepticism, we click. “Oh yeah, we’ll just see about that…” But this one, this wonderfully updated, sweet little home really is a must see and the location? Well, it’s amazing. It’s walking distance to hiking and biking trails and…

Have a Fourth of July Blast in this Preston Hollow Luxury Transitional Party House

By Karen Eubank / July 1, 2019 /

If you like to host big Fourth of July parties — and I mean big — this Preston Hollow luxury transitional is the house of your star-spangled dreams. Imagine watching fireworks from a water slide! I don’t think I’ve ever seen a home that was more suited to entertainment. However, if you’re a homebody, you…

Crespi Estate Changes Hands, Lands With Local Family

By Bethany Erickson / June 28, 2019 /

If the railroads vital to the Crespi family’s cotton trade had run through Waco and not Dallas, Pio and Florence Crespi might have hired Maurice Fatio to build their estate there, instead of Walnut Hill Lane in Dallas. And nobody would be agog today at the news that the Crespi estate, which has changed hands…