Swiss Avenue
The Annual Swiss Avenue Historic District Home Tour – commonly called the Annual Mother’s Day Home Tour – is the matriarch of all home tours in Dallas, and rightly so. Swiss Avenue Historic District (SAHD) was Dallas’ first historic district, and Swiss Avenue was the city’s earliest grand neighborhood. In addition to its designation as…
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Don’t let Halloween get you spooked! Tour these Swiss Avenue stunners instead. Two properties. One neighborhood. Drastically different price points. If it weren’t for all the Halloween hub-bub, we’d still think they’re a great buy. Didn’t you hear? They’re located smack dab in a treasured Dallas enclave that’s known for getting its trick-or-treat on! That’s…
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Mother’s Day weekend once again brings the Swiss Avenue Mother’s Day Home Tour. The annual tradition began in 1974, the same year that the neighborhood was named Dallas’ first residential historic area. “Dallas has so few historic areas. I think there is a uniqueness to this home tour because there’s so much history involved with…
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I don’t write a lot about single family homes. So it’s gotta be good when I do. The word that jumps out about 5105 Swiss Ave. is “original.” For a home built in 1924, that’s an important word. (By the way, I used the evening picture above because of the obvious drama, but it’s winter…
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I was just alerted to the story WFAA-TV’s Tanya Eiserer ran on the 5 pm news this evening depicting a recent supposedly “noisy music wedding” at Aldredge House. It came on the personal Facebook page of Dallas Observer reporter Jim Schutze. Here’s the thing: Schutze was at the wedding. Eiserer said that “loud parties continue…
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