Beckley Club estates

Beckley Club Estates Home Brims Over With Original Architectural, Style Details

By Leah Shafer / December 6, 2016 /

In North Oak Cliff, Beckley Club Estates is one of the older neighborhoods, established in 1926. Rarely does one of the historically notable homes of the area come on market. Our Tuesday Two Hundred was one of the original model home for the neighborhood (“Ramona Gates”). It sits on a corner lot, complete with private courtyard, two-car…

Interview with an Architect: Alicia Chandler Quintans Solves Modern Design Challenges

By Leah Shafer / December 11, 2015 /

In our ongoing series, Interview with an Architect, we speak with leading voices in the North Texas architecture community and learn about their work, development issues in our community, and good design practices and principals (you can read the last one here). Alicia Chandler Quintans, AIA, is an Oak Cliff-based architect, interior designer, and preservationist.…

Male Peacock Stolen from Beckley Club Estates While in the Midst of, um, Mating!

By Candy Evans / April 6, 2015 /

This is terrible: a man stole one of the beautiful wild peacocks that live and roam freely in Beckley Club Estates, a neighborhood of east Oak Cliff. Not only did he kidnap it, he grabbed the poor bird as the creature was in the middle of a mating ritual when he had unfurled his full…