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The origin of Dallas is the original trading post of John Neely Bryan and Sarah Cockrell who took over the town and was the early developer. But Chicago was responsible for much of the booming population. While Houston grew from people in the Deep South moving west, Dallas grew from people migrating from the Midwest and New York. Much of the vibrancy, design, and ambition of Chicago was passed to Dallas. Herbert M. Green from Illinois designed Neiman Marcus and Temple Emanu El. Also early 1900s Prairie Style architecture came directly from Chicago. Frank Lloyd Wright’s associate, Charles Erwin Barglebaugh of Chicago designed 5002 Swiss Avenue in 1913. Some 40 years later Wright designed the Kalita Humphreys Theater in 1955 and on Rockbrook his largest residence in 1958. In the 1970s, 20% of SMU students came from the Chicago area and Governor Clements said that the talented people Dallas wanted were coming primarily from Chicago. When Dallas was booming in the 1980s, the owner of the largest home-building firm, David Fox, was from Chicago as was the Texas Republican Party Chairman. In the 1990s, several of the Dallas City Councilpersons were from the Chicago area. Chicago, like St. Louis and Detroit before it, had been the most successful city in the country. As Chicago declined, Dallas has boomed with several thousand people leaving Chicago for Dallas every few months. Nevertheless, the earnest ambition of these Midwesterners has melded well with the openness and vision of Dallas. Even our most influential Texas architects, David Williams and O’Neil Ford, said they wanted to do in Texas what Frank Lloyd Wright had done in the Midwest. They combined the Modernism of Europe with the indigenous qualities of Texas just as Frank Lloyd Wright merged the Modernism of Europe with the indigenous qualities of the Midwest. Pictured above bridge house and decades of architecture seen along the Chicago River.
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