Dallas Architecture
Architecture is Our Public Art
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Architecture in Dallas
Dallas Has the Finest Collection of 20th and 21st Century Architecture in the Nation
Award-winning Realtor Douglas Newby will help you explore architecture, discuss architects and purchase an architecturally significant home. Dallas has the best collection of 20th and 21st century architecture in the world. This Dallas architecture section discusses Dallas architects; regional architects, national architects and international architects who designed homes and other buildings in Dallas; architectural styles found in Dallas; twenty-first century architectural projects of prominent Dallas architects; Dallas interior designers; and architecturally significant homes that express twentieth and twenty-first century Dallas.
Get a Head-Start on Finding an Architect Designed Home
Best Residential Architecture for Sale in Highland Park and Dallas
4400 Belfort Place Will Be the Finest Highland Park Home to Come on the Market in Years
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.
Favorite Videos Celebrating Dallas Neighborhoods and Architecture
Volk Estates Video – Origin, History, and Architecturally Significant Homes in Dallas’ Most Prestigious Neighborhood
Douglas Newby is known for his broad knowledge of Dallas-area historic homes.
Dallas Morning News Real Estate Editor, Steve Brown
Greenway Parks, A Neighborhood of Architect Designed Homes
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Northern Hills, a Favorite Neighborhood
Preston Hollow Architect Designed Homes
Finest Estate Home, Crespi Hicks Estate
Douglas Newby Will Also Help You Find Architect Designed Homes Not in MLS
Below are some examples of architecturally significant historic homes you might recognize that Douglas Newby has sold that were not in MLS. Please contact Douglas Newby to discuss other homes you might desire to purchase not offered in MLS.
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.”
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.”
An Architecturally Significant Home Not in MLS Sold by Douglas Newby
3712 Armstrong Avenue, Dallas, Texas
Enjoying Northern Hills and Highland Park – Sold by Douglas Newby
This elegant historic 5,600 square foot home with a slate roof and architectural gutters has been totally renovated, rebuilt and expanded, accentuating its inherent open spaces and connecting rooms and sunlit commodious interior volumes often found in a modern home.
Douglas Newby keeps an updated inventory of every architect designed home and architecturally significant home in Dallas. This helps you find a significant home that is not on the market, or that is coming on the market, or is for sale and not listed in MLS. The only way you will know you have purchased the best home is by being fully aware of the inventory of the finest architect designed homes.
If You Desire an Architecturally Significant Home You Will Love, Douglas Newby Invites You to Call or Contact Him
Douglas Newby Will Help You Find the Best Architect Designed Homes
Good architecture adds value to a home, community and city. Douglas Newby understands good architecture and demands quality design. He wants his clients to live in an aesthetically pleasing environment that contributes to the city.
Douglas Newby is a knowledgeable, experienced broker keenly interested in art, architecture, history, and the character and well-being of Dallas. Douglas Newby & Associates understands Dallas as a city of distinct neighborhoods, landmark homes, and important estates.
Douglas Newby specializes in estate homes, architecurally significant, historic and architect designed homes in Dallas and its finest neighborhoods, representing real estate: Preston Hollow, Highland Park, Turtle Creek, Greenway Parks, Volk Estates, Bluffview, Lakewood, Swiss Avenue, White Rock Lake, Munger Place, Park Cities, and dramatic building sites desired by Dallas’ best architects.
Douglas Newby is the best realtor in town – he got us a fabulous price for our old house, and a fabulous deal on this lot.
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University Park Home Seller
Turtle Creek Home Buyer
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Featured Architecturally Significant Home
Crespi Hicks Estate – Finest Estate Home in America
This Estate Home has been admired internationally for its perfect proportions, the craftsmanship of european artisans, and a design articulated with hand carved stone and wood.
Douglas Newby Discussing Modern Homes
Dallas Modern Home Selected by AIA
Modern Architecture Designed by Joshua Nimmo
Architect designed homes come in many different styles. If you’re interested in modern, Texas modern, or mid-century modern homes you can search the MLS and find many in Dallas. Douglas Newby can also help you discover modern homes that are designed by some of the best architects in the country.
Featured Articles and Exhibitions on Dallas Architecture
You can find additional links to articles on Dallas architectural styles and the intertwining relationships of Dallas architects at the bottom of the Dallas Architectural Styles page. Please contact Douglas Newby at 214.522.1000 to discuss Douglas Newby & Associates representing you as we search and evaluate the best home for you.
Douglas Newby benefits clients by identifying and evaluating Dallas’ most significant and special homes.
Architect Designed Arboretum Tree Houses
Often we look so hard at the tulips we miss the garden. Below are photographs from the recent opening of the Dallas Arboretum Ultimate Tree House exhibit that allows us to see how architects are able to explore, evaluate, and direct our attentions to the gardens, hardscaping, paths and trees so we can better see and experience the Dallas Arboretum.
Appreciation is Expressed for Knowledge of Architecturally Significant Homes
Dear Mr. Newby:
I just wanted to write to thank you for your website. I have enjoyed it so much! Thank you for the the time you spent on it and making it available to others. It is excellent.
Thank you again.
I am an interior designer and architectural history is my number one interest. I really only knew of the Crespi home. I was in Dallas earlier this week and happened to drive past Swiss Avenue. What a discovery! I believe the 1920’s produced the best Revival styles so it was a treat to happen upon the area.
-John McElveen
You are the only Realtor I have met who really understands architecture, good design and how it relates to its environment. Since Susan and I are both architects, this was important to us. It is because of your business acumen that we were able to purchase a George Woo designed post modern home on the highest elevation in the county that we are already enjoying. Thanks for everything.
Charles Smith, AIA
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