Monticello

Tired of Open-Concept? Classical Perfection Can Be Found in Monticello

By Eric Prokesh / October 9, 2020 /

It’s not as easy as you might think to turn out a weekly Fort Worth Friday column. This week I had to sift through a lot of less-than-wonderful to find wonderful. I believe one example will suffice. See above. Even the most cavernous of open concept schemes can’t prevent the weight of all of that…

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This Amazing Monticello Mediterranean Packs Plenty of Panache

By Eric Prokesh / August 7, 2020 /
Monticello Mediterranean

Listed only two days ago, this Monticello Mediterranean new build has so much going for it that it’s difficult to know where to start. Since this is a real estate website, I suppose we begin with location. The rambling structure on a double half-acre lot, sits in the heart of one of Fort Worth’s most…

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Retro Beauty With Low-Key Livable Luxury on Monticello’s Best-Preserved Street

By Eric Prokesh / July 24, 2020 /
Virginia Place

This week’s Fort Worth Friday is about as good as it gets. The listing is only days old and interest is robust. That isn’t surprising given that this is one of the loveliest properties to come to market lately. Add to that, Monticello is one of the Westside’s best neighborhoods and this home is a…

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Best of The Westside: A Near Perfectly Placed In-Town Palazzo

By Eric Prokesh / July 17, 2020 /
Palazzo

A perfectly placed palazzo would be on Lago di Como. I confess to obsessing about Italy a lot these days. It’s only natural with the world on lockdown and another long, hot Texas summer before us, that the mind wanders even if we cannot. Tell me I can’t do something-like travel, and the prohibition becomes…

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Quirky Monticello Fixer Upper at a Bargain Price

By Eric Prokesh / March 27, 2020 /
Quirky

Quirky? Perhaps I am doing this singular Monticello listing at 3741 Hamilton Avenue an injustice. The listing describes the style as eclectic. Whatever it is, it isn’t boring and in 1930, when this house was built, it must have been unusually eye catching. Built on a large lot, at the corner of Hamilton Avenue and…

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