Fooshee & Cheek, Dallas Architectural Firm
Past Dallas and Texas Architect
Marion Fooshee (1888-1956) & James Cheek (1895-1970) both trained under and worked for Hal Thomson, the most eloquent designer of the early twentieth century. Fooshee apprenticed with Thomson instead of going to college and Fooshee attended the University of Texas at Austin first. When they created their own firm, they continued designing society homes in the gracious and eclectic style of Hal Thomson. They are best known as the designers of Highland Park Village, the nation’s first self-contained shopping center, and Mediterranean style homes. However, when they collaborated with Hal Thomson they did beautiful neoclassical and English style homes on Lakeside and Alice Circle and a home for Howard Byrd in 1933 at 6909 Vassar. In 1950, the firm designed the Colonial Revival home with a white picket fence on the largest lot in Greenway Parks, 5373 Wenonah. Fooshee and Cheek’s Spanish style office was torn down to make room for the Dallas Museum of Art.
Example of Homes Architect Fooshee & Creek Designed
Home in Heart of Greenway Parks
5373 Wenonah Drive, Dallas, Texas – Torn Down
Largest Lot – .951 Acres – Sold by Douglas Newby
Personification of Greenway Parks
This architecturally significant home best expresses the charm, architecture, and desirability of Greenway Parks. Its architectural pedigree is strong. The home was originally designed by Fooshee & Cheek, the architects of Highland Park Village. The renovation was designed by Allen Kirsch, celebrated for his work on some of the best homes in Dallas. The parks of Greenway Parks and boulevard parks surround the home, accentuating its front porch charm.
Greenway Parks Conservation District
Greenway Parks is a collection of homes designed and built in many sizes and styles. A conservation district ensures that the scale and design of the homes in Greenway Parks remain true to the neighborhood and its aesthetic success. On nearly one acre, a Preston Hollow estate size lot, this 1951 colonial style home sits graciously on the site and reflects the friendly neighborhood atmosphere of Greenway Parks. Found in the middle of the neighborhood, it is removed from the traffic found on the neighborhood’s bordering roads that make Greenway Parks so convenient to the private schools in one direction and downtown Dallas in the other. Also, Highland Park Village is just walking distance away.
Fooshee and Cheek Design
4200 Beverly Drive, Dallas, Texas
Beverly Drive Home
This Spanish Eclectic Grand Mission style home is one of many that Marion Fooshee and James Cheek designed on Beverly Drive in Highland Park. This home they built for the Sterrettes in 1921 was widely successful. Much like the Higginbothams, who built a home next door to 5002 Swiss for their daughter at 5020 Swiss Avenue, the Sterrettes built the home next door to them at 4208 Beverly for their son. This home was also built by Fooshee and Cheek in a Spanish Colonial Revival style.
Greenway Parks Real Estate
5373 Wenonah Drive, Dallas, Texas – Original Home
Fooshee and Cheek Designed Home on .84 acres – Sold by Douglas Newby
“Before” exterior images showing home prior to renovation. Please see 5373 Wenonah, Dallas, Texas for current images and information.
In 1955 architects Marion Fooshee and James Cheek designed this graceful home in the heart of Greenway Parks. It is placed on the largest lot in the neighborhood and with views of the gently curving streets, triangle parks, greenways, the boulevard and fountain. This architect designed home has been unaltered for almost 50 years. It is an important contributing structure to the mosaic of architectural styles and shapes that perpetuate the charm and appeal of Dallas’ most successful 20th century neighborhood. Here is the finest opportunity to renovate and redefine an architecturally significant home in Greenway Parks.
Belfort Place Original Home
Estate Home in Highland Park Designed by Architects Fooshee & Cheek
Architects James Cheek and Marion Fooshee are known for their Spanish Colonial style; however, they also designed beautiful colonial classic style homes including this home at 4400 Belfort Place.
