Italian Renaissance Style Architecture
Dallas Eclectic Architecture
The Italian Renaissance style is perfect for the grandeur of early 20th century Swiss Avenue. The Italian Renaissance style also reflects the Beaux-Arts influence of 1900s mansions. These classically proportioned houses often had Palladian arch windows and doors on the first floor and smaller rectangular windows on the second floor. The design of these homes, allowing a great amount of sunlight and terraces, are not as symmetrical as the Georgian style homes and some of the other styles of homes found on Swiss Avenue.
1177 Lausanne Avenue, Dallas, Texas
This Italian Renaissance home is prominently set in Kessler Park as the first home built in this expensive development created in 1925.
Swiss Avenue Home Designed by C.W. Bulger & Son
Swiss Avenue is where the oldest architecturally significant homes are found. Twenty-first century architects are still inspired by these homes, like this one designed by C.W. Bulger.
6676 Lakewood Boulevard, Dallas, Texas
Anton Korn designed this architecturally significant home in Lakewood in the Italian Renaissance Style. Palladian arches and ornate stone carvings add a quiet elegance to this home.
5439 Swiss Avenue, Dallas, Texas
Swiss Avenue Historic Home
This home was designed by Hal Thomson in 1914 for George Greer, the president of Magnolia Petroleum Company, which later became Mobil Oil. Truly eclectic, the home is not true to a design of the eighteenth century, but includes Georgian details and a nod toward Italian Renaissance.
4938 Junius Street, Dallas, Texas
CD Hill designed this home in 1909 for his family. In Munger Place, all the homes start with a Prairie-style theme and become designed or embellished in various styles including this Italian Renaissance or in many cases, Neo-Classical Craftsman, Mission and Mediterranean.
