Oak Lawn Heights

Oak Lawn Heights Modern Ranch With Midcentury Style

By Joanna England / July 25, 2018 /

  It wasn’t too long ago when our own columnist Jon Anderson lamented the homogeneity of our traditional architecture, which runs profligate in North Texas suburbs. A hodge-podge of styles with features plucked from the comfort food of American residential architecture, Anderson wondered why we couldn’t simply bring back a modern aesthetic to newly built…

Oak Lawn Neighborhood Peace Pierced by Barrage of Early Morning Gunfire

By Bethany Erickson / July 1, 2018 /

Sharmin Ashtaputre’s family has never really felt unsafe in their Oak Lawn Heights neighborhood in the four years they’ve lived there. But early Sunday morning, that sense of safety was shattered as bullets rained down in their daughter’s nursery. “At 5:30 a.m. today, we were woken up by what sounded like fireworks,” Ashtaputre said. “Well,…

Fall In Love With This Oak Lawn Heights Tudor’s Revival Style, Vintage Touches

By Leah Shafer / February 11, 2016 /

Nestled on the west side of Dallas’ vibrant Oak Lawn area is a delightful enclave of cottages and Tudor-revival homes in the area’s  Oak Lawn Heights neighborhood. This is the largest single-family neighborhood in Oak Lawn, and it was developed in the 1920s. Our Thursday Three Hundred at 5114 Bradford Dr. is a 1935 Tudor with 1,674 square feet, two bedrooms,…

Mark You Calendars! These Five Dallas Open Houses Will Wow You This Weekend

By Leah Shafer / December 3, 2015 /

This is not traditionally a great season for home sales—people get busy with holiday plans and postpose their real estate search. But we’ve found five Dallas homes with open houses this weekend that will impress you with their features and style. They range in price from $349,000 to $1.5 million, and include everything from an Old Lake Highlands…

Inwood Home of the Week: Splendor in The Half Acre Grass in Oak Lawn Heights

By Candy Evans / October 28, 2015 /

One of the best kept secrets of why Dallas is such a home-lover’s paradise is that we can have a totally country-suburban feel right in the heart of town. I should really have made you guess the location of this fabulous home before I spilled the beans: Oak Lawn Heights. Honestly, I had no idea…