Douglas Newby, Specializing In, Architecturally Significant Homes, Dallas Modern, Historic, and Estate Homes
If you are interested in art, architecture, design and the aesthetic fabric of Dallas, you have come to the right place. Your interest is my passion.
Douglas Newby is Best Agent to Help You Find Homes for Sale Off the Market and Best to Evaluate the Homes for Sale in MLS
Douglas Newby continually helps Buyers and Sellers outperform the market and consistently sells his listings for a higher price than other agents obtain for their statistically similar listings because of his experience, knowledge of the neighborhoods, and his understanding of the nuances and merits of the homes he is selling.
Douglas Newby sees the true value of neighborhoods, sites, and homes. He is effective in changing perception of a property by illuminating the real value of a home and neighborhood, accelerating neighborhood momentum, and raising the profile and the worth of a neighborhood, architect, and home.
Featured Listings
4400 Belfort Place Will Be the Finest Highland Park Home to Come on the Market (Not Yet on Market)
This Was the Final One Acre Lot in Highland Park in Which to Build a New Home
Since 4400 Belfort Place was the last one-acre lot that did not already have a very large home on it or have a historically significant home on it with millions of dollars invested in renovation, it was important that the Highland Park home built here was the best. When you see this architecturally significant home, you will agree that it is spectacular.
Regardless of the Year, A New Highland Park Home of this Quality Previously Has Not Come on the Market
Regardless of the year, none of us have previously seen in Highland Park a new home that has come on the market with the quality and elegance of this Highland Park inspired Spanish Colonial Revival style home. In fact, in the last several years, there has not been a home of any age in Highland Park on an acre of land designed by a nationally known architect that has come on the market with the quality or appeal of the new home being built at 4400 Belfort Place. This home reaffirms the architectural excellence of Highland Park. Architect Larry Boerder has designed this Spanish Colonial style home with Mediterranean and Italianate detail to reflect the best of Highland Park and to reflect this timeless architectural style into the future.
Dallas Modern Home – Sold by Douglas Newby
5543 Drane Drive, Dallas, Texas – Celebrating Sunlight
Max Levy Architect Designed Modern Home in Greenway Parks
Contact Listing Agent Douglas Newby – 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. Max Levy said that by respecting the trees, he was able to orchestrate a floor plan so that views from the home would be centered on the five live oak trees. The rooftop screen porch in the center of the home creates a treehouse space that enjoys a fireplace and view of the pool and the green of the garden.
Douglas Newby Has Largest Social Media and Internet Global Reach
Douglas Newby provides a benefit to all of his clients by having the largest internet, social media, digital presence and global reach of any Dallas real estate agent. He has always benefitted his clients with a strong media presence. The internet and social media has further leveraged this advantage real estate broker Douglas Newby provides his clients when they are selling their homes. Buyers around the world have many avenues to find Douglas Newby and learn about Dallas and its luxury homes, modern homes and architecturally significant homes.
TEDxTalk by Douglas Newby
Prior to the pandemic, when everyone began to think about homes differently, Douglas Newby discussed on the TED stage the characteristics of homes that make us happy beyond statistics and amenities. Homes that people love also end up being the best investment.
Douglas Newby is an insider guide at the intersection of art, architecture, neighborhoods and community.
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The Mission of Douglas Newby is to Benefit His Clients
National award-winning realtor Douglas Newby identifies and illuminates architecturally significant homes and the potential inventory of architecturally significant homes.Douglas Newby’s favorites are those architecturally significant homes that make the homeowners happy living, working and playing in the home, and that are on the best sites in the finest neighborhoods.
Our mission is to help clients like you, home buyers, who are passionate about design and their environment buy or build a home that contributes to the community, is an aesthetic example for future architectural projects, and is a home that reflects your personality and purpose. Whether you are looking for an estate home, an architecturally significant home, or an architect designed modern home, we will assist you in identifying the significant home that is meant for you and help you acquire that home at the best price in the best way. This site is designed to be your introductory resource for Dallas neighborhoods and architecture. Your call is welcome so together we can discuss and interpret the nuance of the market, the potential inventory of significant homes, and develop a strategy to ensure you find a home you love that has real value.
Architecture as Art
You recognize architecture as public art. We want to help you discover architecturally significant homes, modern homes, estate homes, and architect deigned homes in Dallas’s finest neighborhoods where you can find architecture that is art. Cognizant that time is your most precious commodity, we will efficiently review the entire on-market and off-market inventory of homes you appreciate and seek, homes of real value.
I offer the finest homes and represent clients with the greatest understanding of aesthetics, architecture, and design. Please call me to see if I should represent you.
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If You Desire an Architecturally Significant Home You Will Love, Douglas Newby Invites You to Call or Contact Him
Architects Own Homes Sold with Preservation Deed Restrictions
In Park Cities
Douglas Newby has sold dozens of homes in Dallas, Highland Park and University Park with deed restrictions that protect these historic homes from being torn down. Here are some examples of architecturally significant homes in the Park Cities that were designed by architects for their own families to live in. These were all protected from being torn down by preservation deed restrictions and sold at or above land value.
After 45 Years this Hal Thomson Architect Designed Home Came on the Market and Successfully Sold with Preservation Deed Restrictions
3925 Potomac Avenue, Dallas, Texas
Hal Thomson Historic Highland Park Home – $4,100,000 Sold with Preservation Deed Restriction
How does a home become one of the favorite homes in Highland Park? In the case of 3925 Potomac, it has happened over a span of 100 years. From the time architect Hal Thomson designed this home for his family, it has been admired by those in Highland Park and across Dallas.
Douglas Newby Sold Architect Mark Lemmon’s Own Home – An Architecturally Significant Historic Home Preserved with Deed Restrictions
3211 Mockingbird Lane, Dallas, Texas
Highland Park, Texas, National Historic Landmark – Sold by Douglas Newby
Many consider this Highland Park home designed by Mark Lemmon to be the most historically significant home in Highland Park and maybe Dallas and North Texas. Richard R. Brettell, the former director of the Dallas Museum of Art and founder of the Dallas Architecture Forum, co-authored with Willis Cecil Winters, FAIA, and former Dallas Parks Director, the book, Crafting Traditions—The Architecture of Mark Lemmon. Edmund P. Pillsbury, the former director of the Kimbell Art Museum and the Meadows Museum, wrote the introduction to this book on Mark Lemmon. Ted Pillsbury wrote that, “Mark Lemmon (1889-1975) was the most important historicist architect of 20th-Century Dallas.”
Glenn Allen Galaway Designed Home Sold by Douglas Newby with Preservation Deed Restrictions
University Park Mid Century Modern
7010 Airline, Dallas, Texas
Douglas Newby sold this Glenn Allen Galaway designed home with preservation deed restrictions that prevented this home from being torn down. This is the finest mid century modern home in University Park and one of the finest in the country. A friend and protégé of Philip Johnson, architect Glenn Allen Galaway designed this 2,000 square foot home as his own residence. Now epitomizing architecture as art, the house was named one of Dallas’ 50 Significant Homes in 1997 by the American Institute of Architects, Dallas Chapter, and in 2007 the AIA bestowed it with their 25 Year Award, given to just one residence a year.
In Dallas
My first real estate transaction was the sale of 23 homes in which preservation deed restrictions were placed on these historic homes by the buyers so that when they resold them they could not be torn down. Every decade since, I have been involved with selling homes in Dallas with facade easements and deed restrictions that prevented these homes from being torn down while also selling for more or at land value.
David Williams Designed Home Sold by Douglas Newby with Preservation Deed Restrictions
6292 Mercedes Avenue, Dallas, Texas
David Williams Originated Texas Modern Style – 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. As architectural historian Jay C. Henry wrote in his fabulous book, Architecture in Texas 1895-1945, David Williams’ work was further inspired by the colonists led by Stephen Fuller Austin in 1821. David Williams said, “Their comfort demanded a little beauty and a great deal of taste. There is not in any one of these houses built in the Southwest before 1850 an instance of imitation of foreign styles, of sham, of striving for effect, of any use of unnatural, unnecessary ornament or of material not structural and fit for its purpose….Their style is modern, for it satisfies all the requirements of modern design and construction.”
French Video Profile of Douglas Newby
This impromptu video in a French art gallery shows how Douglas Newby quickly interprets space and architectural intent and context within a neighborhood.
Featured Videos of Dallas Neighborhoods
Here are a few examples of videos of Douglas Newby discussing a neighborhood. One can see his passion for and insight on these Dallas neighborhoods and how they relate to the city and one’s home.
Volk Estates is Both a Prominent and Niche Neighborhood
Greenway Parks is Comprised of Architect Designed Homes
Northern Hills is a Favorite Niche Neighborhood
Turtle Creek Park is a Neighborhood of 36 Homes Embraced by Rock Creek and Turtle Creek
Armstrong Parkway is the Landscaped Parkway that Exemplifies Highland Park
Crespi Estate is the Center Piece of Mayflower Estates
Dallas Neighborhoods of Significant Architecture
Highland Park Real Estate, Preston Hollow Real Estate, and other Prestigious Neighborhoods of Architecturally Significant Homes
You will benefit from our specialty of architecturally significant, historic, estate and architect designed homes in Dallas and its finest neighborhoods, representing real estate: Preston Hollow, Highland Park, Turtle Creek, Greenway Parks, Volk Estates, Bluffview, University Park, Mayflower Estates, Lakewood, Swiss Avenue, White Rock Lake, Munger Place, Park Cities, Bent Tree; and further benefiting you by recognizing and understanding good design and Dallas estate homes by Dallas’ best architects.
About Award-Winning Realtor Douglas Newby
My Favorite Introduction of Douglas Newby – Delivered by Mary Vernon
Introducing Doug Newby to Town and Gown is like going into Sherwood Forest in the old days and introducing Robin Hood to his own merry band. We all know Doug Newby so well as leader and prankster, as the serious questioner and the defender of neighborhoods, as a figure of fashion, and as a friend.
What a Treat to be Introduced by Mary Vernon
What a treat to be introduced by Mary Vernon as the speaker at an SMU Town and Gown Meeting. Mary Vernon is a legend at SMU as a professor and as a splendid artist collected by sophisticated patrons and museums. She is the past President of the SMU Faculty Senate, Chair of the SMU Art Department, and past President of SMU Town and Gown. Most importantly, she is a friend I greatly admire and who can pack much information and insight into a few humorous paragraphs. Thank you, Mary!
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Douglas Newby Insights on Instagram
On Douglas Newby Instagram you can see and read how Douglas Newby interprets Dallas, homes, real estate, and the ongoing evolution of Dallas neighborhoods. You will also see his recommendations and suggestions for making Dallas the best city in the country by looking at his Instagram or Dallas Architecture Blog.
Moderating Contractor Panel
The joy of moderating a panel comes from how much the moderator learns about the topic at hand, the panelists, and the interest and knowledge of the audience. The ICAA panel of contractors -John Sebastian, Rusty Goff, Corey Ford, and John Jarrett – which was organized by ICAA Texas Coordinator Mary Peyton Burgher, and hosted […]
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Coffee Inspiration
Prior to the pandemic, I began many days at the crack of dawn at a coffee shop where I wrote about homes I had listed for sale, about the most interesting neighborhoods in Dallas, blog articles, and the occasional Op-Ed. Over time, randomly sitting next to me at the high library tables were remarkable people, […]
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Mayor View Point
In 1978, the office of the Dallas Mayor gained a new view point. The view changed from inside architect C.D. Hill’s Beaux Arts style City Hall to I.M. Pei’s brutalist style City Hall. These two buildings are architecturally polar opposites. C.D. Hill designed a classically ornate municipal building while I.M. Pei designed a municipal building […]
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Artist Connection
It is always fun to see a museum exhibition of an artist in which one has acquired a piece of theirs early in their career. My Trenton Doyle Hancock piece was done when he was in his twenties. Now the mature work of the Texas artist is seen in NYC at the exhibition “Draw Them […]
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Why Do Spanish Revival Style Homes Evoke the Best of Highland Park?
Dallas is home to the best collection of 20th century homes in the country. Highland Park is associated with the best homes in Dallas. How did Spanish Revival style homes come to represent the finest homes in Highland Park – the best of the best – and evoke the excellence of Highland Park? The story…
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Dallas Contractors Discuss Building Traditional and Modern Homes – Stradivarius Violins and Symphony Triangles
The Institute of Classical Architecture and Art (ICAA) invited me to moderate a panel of top Dallas contractors on February 13 to discuss building traditional homes in contrast to building modern homes. I’m very excited about this upcoming event and wanted to share some of my thoughts as I prepare for what promises to be…
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Highland Park Teardown or Architecturally Significant Survival?
A Highland Park teardown is just another old, out-of-date house or it is an architectural accomplishment designed by one of the best architects in Dallas or the country, and the former home of prominent residents. An insignificant Highland Park teardown makes room for a new architect-inspired home. An architecturally significant home that becomes another Highland…
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Home Value Hierarchy – Hal Thomson
For a perfect illustration of home value and the many factors that elevate a home’s value, consider the Hal Thomson-designed home at 3925 Potomac Avenue. As I’ve shared before, home value is determined by a home’s location, its neighborhood, its site and its historic and architectural significance. All these characteristics combine to make this architecturally…
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Hear Douglas Newby on the podcast Deconstructing Dallas make the case that Trinity Groves in Dallas would make a great home for Amazon HQ2.
Media and Articles: Douglas Newby Is a Local, National, and International Source for Insights on Dallas, Dallas Homes, and Real Estate
Douglas Newby has been a consistent and trusted source for the media when information and insights are needed for real estate, homes, neighborhoods, or Dallas projects or policy. International newspapers and magazines like the London Times, the French Liberation, the New York Times, and South China Morning Post, and business publications like the Robb Report, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, and design magazines like Architectural Digest are examples of some of the international print publications that along with online publications like Yahoo.com and NewGeography.com that have quoted or written about Douglas Newby.
CNN and other international and local television and cable media have broadcast on-air interviews with Douglas Newby. In addition, Douglas Newby has written extensive articles for national online economic publications and local magazines regarding architecture, neighborhoods and the city. Trade publications including preservation magazines, history journals, and architecture publications also include quotes and insights from Douglas Newby.
Douglas Newby has written a book on Dallas neighborhoods and has been thanked by many authors in the Acknowledgements section of their business or architecture books. Douglas Newby has always been willing to share with his clients or the media his unique knowledge to help people better understand architecturally significant homes, neighborhoods, real estate and the city.
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See International publications touting Douglas Newby or his listings. Since Douglas Newby specializes in architecturally significant homes, national and international magazines, newspapers, and publications often seek his views on the real estate market, homes, or Dallas.
International Publications Touting Douglas Newby or His Listings
For the same reason smart and sophisticated home buyers and sellers seek out Douglas Newby, the international, national and local media seek out Douglas Newby for his opinion on architecturally significant homes, the real estate market, the evolution of Dallas, the economic forecast for the city, and topics that range from preservation to aesthetics to architectural materials. Just as Douglas Newby is a trusted source for buyers and sellers, Douglas Newby is a trusted source for the media.
Douglas Newby has written many compelling op-ed columns that have helped shape opinions and the direction of Dallas. These op-eds range from neighborhood revitalization and preservation to Dallas public policy, and range from architecturally significant homes that make us happy to city forms of government and organic urbanism. Homebuyers living in Dallas or moving to Dallas want the inside information on Dallas. Anyone can find or provide the statistical average price of a home per square foot. Just as Douglas Newby shares his insights with his clients, he shares his insights in op-ed columns.
Editorial OpEd Columns by Douglas Newby
Douglas Newby is a Local, National, and International Source for Insights on Dallas, Homes, and Real Estate:
- Is Your Home Your Castle – Or an Obstacle?
- Dallas Should Nurture Home Ownership
- Neighbors Not Renters Foster Community
- Neighbors Stand Up to Teardowns
- Other publications, such as the Huffington Post have featured Douglas Newby articles drawing attention to Dallas: “The Finest Estate Home in America Found.“
- Other OpEds by Douglas Newby. Below are a few examples.
Douglas Newby wrote the book, A Guide to the Older Neighborhoods of Dallas, published by the Historic Preservation League. A Guide to the Older Neighborhoods of Dallas by Douglas Newby was the first book on Dallas neighborhoods and rose to #2 on the Dallas Nonfiction Best-Selling List. The reproduction and updating of the Munger Place book originally published by the Munger Brothers in 1905 gives the history of Dallas’ first planned development and the first neighborhood in Dallas to be revitalized several years later.
Books Authored by Douglas Newby
Articles Authored by Douglas Newby
International, national, and local media interviews with Douglas Newby on Dallas, homes, and real estate
Douglas Newby is a Local, National, and International Source for Insights on Dallas, Homes, and Real Estate
The Dallas Morning News and other publications have endorsed the work of Douglas Newby or referenced the ideas of Douglas Newby regarding Dallas architecture, city zoning and architectural styles. These editorials include an early one on the benefits of backzoning, big hair houses, and a pictorial essay on “Is this house owned by a Republican or Democrat?” The opinion-makers of Dallas often rely on the opinions of Douglas Newby as seen on the editorial pages.
Explore Editorials Referencing Douglas Newby
Dallas newspapers along with national and international newspapers have always considered Douglas Newby a good and reliable source when they are doing a story on Dallas, architecture, real estate and neighborhoods. Douglas Newby enjoys speaking to thoughtful reporters, journalists and writers, and strives to provide them a fresh insight on the topics they are covering.
Newspaper Interviews with Douglas Newby
There have been over 100 newspaper articles that include quotes from Douglas Newby. Dallas media understands that Douglas Newby is a reliable insightful resource to shed light on or give depth to the story on Dallas, homes, the real estate market or architecture.
Photographs of homes taken by Douglas Newby have been published in books, magazines, newspapers and online around the world. A portrait of the owner of a foundation company, Harvey Ford, taking a break after being under a house, was awarded the Grand Champion Best of Show photograph at the State Fair of Texas. While Douglas Newby is not a professional photographer, he became fluent in photography in order to capture the essence of the homes he is selling. His photographs appear in the book Dallas, a book of Dallas photographs with text provided by the former mayor Annette Strauss, Texas Architecture, The Houses of the Park Cities, and others.
Books, magazines and newspaper articles that have published Douglas Newby photographs
Often when an author is writing a book on Dallas or architecture, they will request photographs taken by Douglas Newby to illustrate the homes or architecture they are discussing.
Douglas Newby is the only Realtor to ever appear on the main stage at TED. He was invited to give a response to the TED Talks on autonomous vehicles and how we should prepare for the impact on our cities. Douglas Newby has also given a well-received TEDx Talk on Homes That Make Us Happy.
Douglas Newby on Main Stage at TED
Douglas Newby takes the stage for an audience response during Session 12 of TED 2011, as TED curator Chris Anderson looks on. February 28 – March 4, Long Beach, CA. Credit: James Duncan Davidson / TED
Douglas Newby has written extensive articles found on DouglasNewby.com that pertain to the city of Dallas, real estate, Dallas neighborhoods, city planning, architecture, architects, organic urbanism, and the evolution of Dallas. When one has a chance to explore these articles by Douglas Newby, one has a real insight on Dallas, its past and its future.
Douglas Newby insights on Architecturally Significant Homes, Neighborhoods, and the Evolution of Cities
Douglas Newby is a national award-winning realtor who identifies architectural significance, value, and homes that make people happy. Insights offered in these articles include the nuance and evolution of neighborhoods, cities and Dallas.
Why Do Spanish Revival Style Homes Evoke the Best of Highland Park?
Dallas is home to the best collection of 20th century homes in the country. Highland Park is associated with the best homes in Dallas. How did Spanish Revival style homes come to represent the finest homes in Highland Park – the best of the best – and evoke the excellence of Highland Park? The story…
Continue ReadingDallas Contractors Discuss Building Traditional and Modern Homes – Stradivarius Violins and Symphony Triangles
The Institute of Classical Architecture and Art (ICAA) invited me to moderate a panel of top Dallas contractors on February 13 to discuss building traditional homes in contrast to building modern homes. I’m very excited about this upcoming event and wanted to share some of my thoughts as I prepare for what promises to be…
Continue ReadingHighland Park Teardown or Architecturally Significant Survival?
A Highland Park teardown is just another old, out-of-date house or it is an architectural accomplishment designed by one of the best architects in Dallas or the country, and the former home of prominent residents. An insignificant Highland Park teardown makes room for a new architect-inspired home. An architecturally significant home that becomes another Highland…
Continue ReadingHome Value Hierarchy – Hal Thomson
For a perfect illustration of home value and the many factors that elevate a home’s value, consider the Hal Thomson-designed home at 3925 Potomac Avenue. As I’ve shared before, home value is determined by a home’s location, its neighborhood, its site and its historic and architectural significance. All these characteristics combine to make this architecturally…
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National network television and international cable companies have broadcast interviews with Douglas Newby locally and internationally.
Douglas Newby Interviews Broadcast Locally and Internationally
The Bush’s New Home in Exclusive Dallas Neighborhood
Some Residents Oppose ForwardDallas Land Use Plan
Some authors write about Douglas Newby and his contribution to Dallas and Dallas real estate. Other authors, in their Acknowledgements, thank Douglas Newby for his contribution to their book. Still others cite Douglas Newby in their footnotes, citations or photo credits.
Books Discussing Douglas Newby
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Douglas Newby Understands Dallas is a City of Prosperity, Culture and Character
It’s to your advanage to have a Dallas real estate broker knowledgeable, experienced and keenly interested in art, architecture, history, and the character, well being and the future of Dallas. I understand the past and future of Dallas, a city with a river park larger than the city of San Francisco, with two mile-long, skyscraper high Calatrava bridges connecting modern mixed-use development on both sides of the city, a cultural district bringing international acclaim and a city of distinct neighborhoods, historically significant homes, refined residences, Dallas modern homes, mid century homes, distinguished estate homes, Dallas historic homes and homes of architectural significance. Whether relocation takes you to Dallas or you are already a Dallas resident, Call me to see if I should represent you when you are looking for or selling an architecturally significant home or a dramatic building site desired by Dallas’ best architects. I understand a home is your greatest design decision.
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Clients and Dallas Patrons Appreciate Douglas Newby
Douglas Newby I could write a novella extolling your virtues but I know you are a humble person at heart. Suffice it to say that you have been nothing short of amazing. Thanks so much for all you’ve done to help with this process!
Michael Conrady
A note of thanks for a most civilized experience … our recent home sale was conducted with such efficiency, discretion, and geniality that we know that our buyers were as pleased with the ease of the sale/purchase process as we. Your marketing of our home with such sensitivity to the particular merits of our property and of our neighborhood led to a surplus of potential buyers at the end — a very rewarding experience! In our 30 years of buying and selling homes in three states, never have we enjoyed such confidence in our realtor nor worried so little about the eventual successful outcome.
It is an additional satisfaction to know how well you have matched our beloved home with its new owners.
James and Patricia Shinn
Former Director of Dallas International Affairs
Turtle Creek Park Homeowner
I’ve worked with the best real estate brokers across the country all my life, when it comes to the best Dallas residential real estate broker, I think who else is there but Douglas Newby? Thank you for all your extraordinary efforts. You are a superb negotiator.
George Watson
Real Estate Investor
Preston Hollow Homeowner
Dear Mr. Newby,
I enjoy referencing your website in my continued journey in learning about both historical and modern residential architecture in Dallas. Your photography on the site is exquisite, and your eye for detail is certainly recognized….Thanks for all you do to promote the recognition of architecturally significant structures and the field of architectural and interior design.
Jan Parker, FASID
Director of the School of Interior Design
The Art Institute of Dallas