Rick Brettell sites Howard Meyer as the first international modernist architect in Dallas, "When Meyer arrived in Texas in 1935, he was the best-trained architect in the state, having the distinguished undergraduate career in the humanities and a further degree from the Columbia School of Architecture from which he graduated in 1928." It was at Columbia as a student that he worked in the office of William Lescaze, a New York modernist. He then went to Europe where he met Corbusier and visited the current architecture of Switzerland, Germany and The Netherlands. In 1935, he arrived in Texas, gaining work as a draftsman for the Texas Centennial Exhibition. The next few years he built homes that were traditional, or in the case of the home on Colgate, reflecting Art Moderne. By the 1950s, he was designing many of the most prominent modern homes in Dallas. Most notably, 5381 Nakoma in Greenway Parks and the luxury apartment building at 3525 Turtle Creek. Two other of his well known important homes are 9612 Rockbrook and 4701 Miron. The Miron home is important not only because Howard Meyer designed the home, but he consulted on its renovation and brought attention to the surrounding architect designed homes, many of which have also been renovated.

This classic home is located on Cochran Chapel Road, a neighborhood of 26 properties and 66 acres between Bluffview and a wilderness park. While Howard Meyer is best known for his mid-century modern work, he has also been recognized in the AIA Guide to Architecture and by architectural historians for his splendid design of eclectic homes built in the 1930s.

The Turtle Creek highrise was the first luxury apartment building in Dallas. It is sheathed in a bris soleil and remains current today.