Eric Prokesh

Low Key Irwin Street Façade Conceals Spacious Living

By Eric Prokesh / August 17, 2018 /

Things aren’t necessarily what they appear at street level.  From the corner of Irwin Street and Forest Park, 2301 Irwin Street appears to be just the sort of charming, one-story Craftsman-style bungalow one would expect to find in Mistletoe Heights. I continue to marvel at the variety of venerable Near Southside neighborhoods — Berkley, Park…

Arch Adams Townhouse Offers Style and Choice Location

By Eric Prokesh / August 10, 2018 /

If convenient, lock-and-leave living, a choice West Side location, and an affordable price top your list of must haves, you should definitely take a look at a new listing at 716 Arch Adams Lane. Location? Off 7th Street and within easy walking distance of the museums and 7th Street restaurants and clubs. The street is…

Arcadian Crestwood Hideaway On Rockwood Park Drive

By Eric Prokesh / August 3, 2018 /

Mopey and melancholic, your Fort Worth Friday correspondent was looking for real estate comfort food to chew on, and there are few neighborhoods more delicious than Crestwood with its lovely, well-bred, unpretentious houses set among cherished old oaks. And with the summer dog days upon us, we are all seeking refuge where we can, so…

Manorial Montserrat Manse on Santa Cova Court

By Eric Prokesh / July 27, 2018 /

We haven’t gone big at Fort Worth Friday for awhile and if you’re thinking of going big, Montserrat may be your ideal with lots as large as five acres and square footages that can top 20,000. It’s difficult to believe that the high-profile, gated community of Montserrat is 15 years old. Carved out of 143 acres…

West is the Future or Walsh Ranch Revisited

By Eric Prokesh / June 29, 2018 /

Amon Carter didn’t actually christen Fort Worth as the place “where the west begins”  — it was a visiting mayor from the small town of Munday who came up with the moniker that Carter placed on the front page of his newspaper, The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, where it has remained to this day. West certainly…