Highland Park

Preservation Dallas Announces Most Endangered Historic Places in Dallas

By Leah Shafer / September 26, 2016 /

“Historic preservation is the dynamic and deliberate process through which we decide what to keep from the present for the future, and then working to keep it.” —W. Brown Morton Many historic buildings in Dallas face an uncertain future. Today, Preservation Dallas held a press conference to announce their 2016 “Most Endangered Historic Places in Dallas”…

Uncompromisingly Beautiful Home by Tatum Brown is a “Highland Park Modern Mediterranean”

By Karen Eubank / September 26, 2016 /

If you’ve ever thought you needed to compromise when purchasing a home, you’ve never seen one designed by Stocker Hoesterey and Montenegro (SHM) and built by Tatum Brown Custom Homes. Our Monday Morning Millionaire, at 3652 Stratford Avenue, is a “Highland Park modern Mediterranean” that has been designed without compromise… on any front. Which makes…

House Reunions: Yes, You Can Go Back Home… as Long as the House is Still Standing

By Candy Evans / September 7, 2016 /

Labor Day musings. Once, on a trip to Chicago, I was driving west on the Kennedy to I-90, and passing by the outskirts of the suburban towns where I grew up. We had lived in Oak Park and moved west successively, so much that the towns created a line of dots on the tollway, like…

Interview with an Architect: Richard Davis Creates Spectacularly Luxe DFW Homes

By Leah Shafer / August 22, 2016 /

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). Dallas architect Richard Drummond Davis is Dallas born, creating some of the most…

Exceptional, Understated Elegance in America’s Best Zip Code

By Karen Eubank / August 4, 2016 /

Who cares about Beverly Hills, 90210? What buyers really want is Highland Park, 75205. Cathy Witte, with Allie Beth Allman & Associates, has just listed the most extraordinary home, at 3509 Gillon Avenue for $5.475 million. It has the exceptional, understated elegance you expect from America’s best zip code.