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Preston Hollow Modern Home Designed by Edward Durell Stone – Sold by Douglas Newby
Edward Durell Stone was one of a handful of international architects who had the ability to design prominent skyscrapers, the symbol of the 20th century, modern museums looking at art and collections in a new way, and homes combining technology with humanity.
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Dallas Has the Finest Collection of Modern Homes in the U.S.
Dallas modern homes reflect the best modern architecture in the United States. In Dallas you will find homes that are classical modern, Texas modern, innovative modern, “green” modern, mid century modern and early modern or eclectic homes transformed into a modern design. This section of DougNewby.com has been prepared to give you an overview of Dallas modern homes under the banners of modern, Texas modern, and mid century modern.
Douglas Newby Discusses with David Sutherland His Preston Hollow Modern Home Designed by Lionel Morrison
David Sutherland and his wife Ann are the owners of one of the top design studios in the country offering outdoor and indoor furniture and many other collections. They are also perfect clients and collaborators for award winning modern architect Lionel Morrison, FAIA, at their new Dallas architecturally significant modern home in the Preston Hollow neighborhood. David Sutherland discusses with Douglas Newby the concept of this modern home, the second modern estate home that Lionel Morrison has designed for them that includes their influence.
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Max Levy Designed Modern Home in Greenway Parks – Sold by Douglas Newby
Max Levy, FAIA, designed this home to embrace nature. He did this by designing the home to fully enjoy the five large live oak trees on the property and to reflect the greenways and the sense of nature in the neighborhood.
- Neighborhood: Greenway Parks
- Architect: Max Levy
- Interior Designer: Wendy Konradi
- Landscape Architect: David Hocker
- Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
- Listing Price: $5,895,000
- Status: Sold
Douglas Newby Sold the First Texas Modern Home Designed by David Williams – Sold by Douglas Newby
Architect David Williams originated the Texas Modern Style inspired by Texas and Louisiana indigenous homes. The home at 6292 Mercedes Avenue in Wilshire Heights Neighborhood in Dallas that he designed for Ray McDowell in 1927 is where David Williams jumped off from the blatant Spanish Colonial eclecticism prevalent in the 1920s and designed a more “Texas Colonial” style home reflecting the indigenous qualities of East Texas and Louisiana.
- Neighborhood: Wilshire Heights
- Architect: David R. Williams
- Acres: 0.68
- Living Area: 2696
- Year Built: 1927
- Status: Sold
Architect Bentley Tibbs Designed Modern Home – Sold by Douglas Newby
Architect Bentley Tibbs designed this home on a large lot in the Lakewood Heights neighborhood of Old East Dallas to reflect the style and evolution of the neighborhood and a home that provides enjoyment for a family.
- Neighborhood: Lakewood Heights
- Architect: Bentley Tibbs
- Acres: 0.23
- Living Area: 3557
- Year Built: 2008
- Status: Sold
Joshua Nimmo-Designed Modern Home – Sold by Douglas Newby
Joshua Nimmo designed an architecturally significant modern home that furthers the evolution of good design. This home also clarifies and amplifies the vision of Urban Reserve, an enclave of modern homes in an ecologically and aesthetically enlightened neighborhood.
- Neighborhood: Urban Reserve
- Architect: Joshua Nimmo
- Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
- Acres: 0.27
- Living Area: 2600
- Year Built: 2014
- Status: Sold
Modern Home Designed by Bud Oglesby – Sold by Douglas Newby
Architect Scott Marek has designed several modern homes in Urban Reserve, a Dallas enclave of modern homes. My favorite one is this modern home he designed at 60 Vanguard Way.
- Neighborhood: Urban Reserve
- Architect: Scott Marek
- Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
- Living Area: 4647
- Year Built: 2016
- Status: Sold
Modern Home Designed by Bud Oglesby – Sold by Douglas Newby
Bud Oglesby, FAIA, with Oglesby Architects, designed the best residential public spaces in Dallas. Bud Oglesby designed modern homes as large as 10,000 square feet or, like this modern Oglesby condominium on Armstrong and Travis, homes with 2,392 square feet.
- Neighborhood: Knox to Blackburn
- Architect: Bud Oglesby
- Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
- Living Area: 2392
- Year Built: 1981
- Status: Sold
Ryan Grey Smith-Designed Modern Home – Sold by Douglas Newby
Where else will you find an architect-designed home overlooking a meadow, forest and park, with a walking and biking paths down to the Bath House Cultural Center and Bath House Theater and White Rock Lake under $2 million?
- Neighborhood: Peninsula
- Architect: Ryan Grey Smith
- Architectural Style: Pre Fabricated Modern
- Acres: 0.22
- Living Area: 1994
- Year Built: 2012
- Status: Sold
Lionel Morrison-Designed Modern Home – Sold by Douglas Newby
Lionel Morrison received an AIA Honor Award for this 3,600 square-foot Travis townhouse located a block from Knox Street and Travis Walk that he designed in 1999. Now it is even better.
- Neighborhood: Knox to Blackburn
- Architect: Lionel Morrison
- Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
- Acres: 0.09
- Living Area: 3850
- Year Built: 1999
- Status: Sold
Scott Lyons-Designed Modern Home – Sold by Douglas Newby
Architect Scott Lyons enhanced a magical setting with a Texas Modern home that is thrust into nature with close and distant views in three directions of trees, gardens, a wide spring-fed creek and pond, and a twelve-acre private garden that is meticulously groomed and blooming.
- Neighborhood: Mayflower Estates
- Architect: Scott Lyons
- Architectural Style: Texas Modern
- Acres: 1.53
- Living Area: 8208
- Year Built: 1963
- Status: Sold
One of the Finest Early Modern Homes in Dallas – Sold by Douglas Newby
The early modern home at 5017 Swiss Avenue expresses the architectural influence of Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Sullivan. The carved band of Sullivanesque detail, the Sullivanesque relief ornamentation on the dormer,under the deep eaves, and on the panel between the second story windows are outstanding examples of the Progressive Style and Prairie School architecture.
- Neighborhood: Swiss Avenue Historic District
- Architect: Svend Fruit
- Architectural Style: Prairie
- Acres: 0.52
- Living Area: 5300
- Year Built: 1907
- Status: Sold
Craftsman Bungalow Representing 100 Years of Modernism – Sold by Douglas Newby
In the Belmont Addition neighborhood of Dallas, between the restaurants of Greenville Avenue and ten blocks from the trails around White Rock Lake, you will find this 1,400 square foot early modern home immersed in nature.
- Neighborhood: Belmont Conservation District
- Architectural Style: Craftsman
- Acres: 0.2
- Living Area: 1400
- Year Built: 1926
- Status: Sold
Architect Arch Swank Designed Home in 1957 – Sold by Douglas Newby
Arch Swank, one of the most accomplished modern architects in the 1950s, designed this architecturally significant modern home in 1957 in Highland North neighborhood located west of Midway Road.The architect was adept at siting the modern homes he designed on the most attractive land.
- Neighborhood: Highland North
- Architect: Arch B. Swank
- Renovate Architect: Cliff Welch
- Architectural Style: Mid-Century Modern Style Architecture
- Year Built: 1957
- Status: Sold
Modern Home by Architect Lionel Morrison – Sold by Douglas Newby
Architect Lionel Morrison energized the interest in modern homes with his series of modern single-family attached homes on Springbrook. Dallas has always had many of the best modern homes in the country. This modern home and the ones around it began the current wave of interest in modern architecture sweeping Dallas.
- Neighborhood: Northern Heights
- Architect: Lionel Morrison
- Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
- Living Area: 2442
- Year Built: 1990
- Status: Sold
Max Sandfield Midcentury in Mayflower Estates – Sold by Douglas Newby
Architect Max Sandfield designed this midcentury modern home on a 1.13 acre site along the 25-acre Crespi / Hicks estate property. The result of this modern period home being located in the quiet and prestigious Mayflower Estates neighborhood and having 25 acres of estate land behind it, is a site that is secluded, prominent and private.
- Neighborhood: Mayflower Estates
- Architect: Max M. Sandfield
- Architectural Style: Mid-Century Modern Style Architecture
- Acres: 1.13
- Living Area: 4107
- Year Built: 1962
- Status: Sold
Northern Heights Dallas Modern Home For Sale – Sold by Douglas Newby
Here in the Northern Heights neighborhood that is found along the Katy Trail, on the edge of Highland Park and within walking distance to Knox/Henderson, West Village or Turtle Creek, you will find this three-story modern single-family attached three-bedroom home with a swimming pool. The home has large art walls and voluminous spaces.
- Neighborhood: Northern Heights
- Acres: 0.09
- Living Area: 3359
- Year Built: 2007
- Status: Sold
Northern Heights Dallas Modern Home For Sale – Sold by Douglas Newby
The 2.63 acres is perfectly located to enjoy the 40 acres of ascending tree tops on the neighboring 25 acre Hicks and 15 acre Phillips estates both of which adjoin President George and Laura Bush’s Mayflower estate home.
- Neighborhood: Mayflower Estates
- Architect: Scott Lyons
- Architectural Style: Texas Modern
- Acres: 2.63
- Living Area: 9902
- Year Built: 1983
- Status: Sold
Midcentury Modern Home – Sold by Douglas Newby
Max Sandfield designed this home for his own residence acting as architect and client. Max Sandfield was able to be more daring. He designed one of the first modern homes in Dallas capturing the architectural elements we now so closely associate with this revered architectural period.
- Neighborhood: University Heights No 6 & 7
- Architect: Max M. Sandfield
- Architectural Style: Mid-Century Modern Style Architecture
- Acres: 0.26
- Living Area: 3327
- Year Built: 1951
- Status: Sold
International Style Modern Home – Sold by Douglas Newby
Sited on two beautiful acres and backed up to a greenbelt, this asking price reflects just land value and the fabulous architect designed home is an incredible bonus. Located in Bent Tree, this is the finest International Style modern home built in Dallas since the International Style home designed by Roscoe Dewitt, AIA, for Stanley Marcus on acreage in 1937.
- Neighborhood: Bent Tree
- Architect: James Nagle
- Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
- Acres: 1.99
- Living Area: 5181
- Year Built: 1976
- Status: Sold
You will see on Dallas Modern Homes prominent modern homes that are well known, but even more often you will discover modern homes hidden from the street or in neighborhoods like Urban Reserve where you may not know contemporary residences even existed.
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Architect Joshua Nimmo Designed Modern Home
Modern Home in Urban Reserve
This modern home designed by architect Joshua Nimmo in Urban Reserve is a perfect example of an extraordinary contemporary residence that is not easily seen from the street.
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If You Desire an Architecturally Significant Home You Will Love, Douglas Newby Invites You to Call or Contact Him
I hope you enjoy this section devoted to modern homes as much as we enjoyed putting it together. If you have interest in one of the modern homes or any questions contact me or call me at 214.522.1000.
-Douglas Newby