Russell Buchanan, Dallas Architect

Edward Durell Stone – Park Lane and Meadowbrook
Russell Buchanan, AIA – Renovation Architect, 2007

5243 Park Lane, Dallas, Texas

Architecturally Significant

The renovation of this internationally important residence, including reclaiming the pool and floating dining room island, was completed in 2007.

Comparable to Edward Durell Stone’s international projects, this 1957 Park Lane project was his most important and favorite residential work. While he is known for his monumental projects, his interest in architecture began in Fayetteville, Arkansas, where he entered a lumberyard sponsored birdhouse competition, which he won. He was from a very wealthy family and had a much older brother, already an architect, whom he joined in Boston. His brother sponsored him for the Boston Architectural Club where he drew and studied. He then went to Harvard and MIT on scholarship, studying architecture with an emphasis on the Beaux Arts style.

While his contemporary, Maurice Fatio, would draw for 12 hours and then go to “white tie and tails” balls, Edward Durell Stone would draw for 12 hours and then go to speakeasies — his favorite, Texas Guyan. Maybe this is the reason that much later in his career he was so excited about coming to Texas to design a home.

4001 Bowser Avenue, Dallas, Texas

19 Vanguard Way

Vanguard Way Modern Home

Architect Russell Buchanan designed this 2,152 square foot modern home at 19 Vanguard Way in Urban Reserve neighborhood of East Dallas.

29 Vanguard Way, Dallas, Texas

Russell Buchanan Architect-designed 1,958 square foot contemporary house at 29 Vanguard Way in the premier modern Urban Reserve neighborhood of East Dallas.