Donovan Westover
By Donovan Westover Time traveling forward from our previously featured 1916 four-square tour house in Winnetka Heights, we find ourselves in Beckley Club Estates in 1928. The moment I saw this stone cottage I was taken with the charming combination of the puzzlelike stone capped with the sweeping roofline. Curb Appeal When built, the house…
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By Donovan Westover Our preview of the Heritage Oak Cliff Fall Home Tour begins in 1916 when this stately Rosemont Avenue four square was built. The house was constructed in Winnetka Heights three years after downtown Dallas’ Busch Building (Kirby), four years after Adolphus Hotel, and six years before Magnolia Petroleum Building when the neighborhood…
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By Donovan Westover Labor Day has come and gone, and it is time to pack away your white clothing. The time has also come for the annual Heritage Oak Cliff Fall Home Tour, which we are super excited to bring back after a pandemic hiatus. This vital event, which has been on hold since 2019,…
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Chateau des Grotteaux is a literal castle at the corner of Gaston and West Shore. It’s such a uniquely magnificent home with a steep (but justified) price tag that listing agent DeCarla Anderson and the previous owner knew it was going to take a minute to sell. Throughout the two-year listing, Anderson met every agent…
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By Donovan Westover Special Contributor The 1935 Walton House has always perched on the center of its vast Bluffview Estates lot, the landscape and grounds cascading down around it with a natural flow. Carol and James Walton selected a huge lot in Bluffview for their impressive 1930s home. At the time, Walton owned and…
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