Historic Dallas
When I saw a unit available at the Eagle Apartments, my heart skipped a beat. This is exactly where I’d have lived in my younger years. It has that perfect combination of history and urban lifestyle I’ve always loved. It’s an example of how a historic building can still beautifully serve its original purpose. The…
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If we’re highlighting the people who preserve, protect, educate, and keep the bulldozers at bay so we may continue to have a city with character and history, we have to profile Nancy McCoy of McCoy Collaborative Preservation Architecture. McCoy has touched almost every significant building you can think of in and around Dallas, from those…
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Whether your budget is big or small we have the Hollywood-Santa Monica homes for you. And just in time for Thanksgiving! Which would you rather spend time in for a Thanksgiving feast: the Stunning Tudor Splurge or the Budget Bungalow Steal? There is no wrong answer here. Splurge: Perfect Hollywood Heights Home For The Holidays…
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By David Preziosi, Preservation Dallas Special Contributor You’ve probably passed by this house a thousand times and wondered what it was like inside. The 1965 Shwiff house commands the corner of Yamini and Chicot with its series of white segmental-arched vaulted clerestory roofs reaching out in all directions. The house is a standout, and not…
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By Carol Roark, Preservation Dallas Special Contributor In July 1953 Margaret and Eugene McDermott bought a property across the street from Highland Park Town Hall. Befitting his status as the Chairman of Texas Instruments, the couple needed a residence that could not only house their family, but offer space for them to entertain. Landscape architects…
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