Overton Park
If Midcentury Modern is your thing, you’d do well to place Overton Park on your radar because it houses a rich inventory of the genre. I covered, with pleasure, one of my favorite Midcentury Modern spreads in Overton Park two years ago. This is hardly surprising considering the 49-acre development, once part of Edwards Ranch,…
Alright. I am happy in my hundred-year-old Texas Mediterranean house chock-a-block with period antiques. And yet. When confronted with the simplicity and elegance of an outstanding exemplar of the modern idiom, it’s not difficult to lose myself in the reverie of imagining a very different life. Winston Churchill once observed, “We shape our dwellings, and…
Overton Crest? I wouldn’t hold it against you if you hadn’t heard of the posh and private little enclave inside Overton Park. I hadn’t heard of the pricey sub-development before today when two multimillion-dollar listings commanded my attention. The location of this listing at 4420 Overton Crest St. is spectacular with nearly two acres of…
While it’s only been on the market for six days, this authentic Overton Park Midcentury Modern has so much going for it that it’s difficult to know where to begin. Let’s start outside with the 1.4-acre lot. The house benefits from a deep setback on a cul-de-sac lot with a small forest of mature trees…
This dazzling Overton Park Midcentury Modern time capsule looks as if it was built yesterday or conjured up for a period feature film. In fact, the house was built in 1957 in the then-new development of Overton Park for prominent civic leader Leon Brachman who died at the age of 90 in 2010. Brachman engaged…
