Modern Homes For Sale

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.

• Neighborhood: Greenway Parks
• Architect: Max Levy
• Interior Designer: Wendy Konradi
• Landscape Architect: David Hocker
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Status: Sold

Architect Bentley Tibbs designed this home on a large lot in the Lakewood Heights neighborhood of Old East Dallas to reflect the style and evolution of the neighborhood and a home that provides enjoyment for a family.

• Neighborhood: Lakewood Heights
• Architect: Bentley Tibbs
• Acres: 0.23
• Living Area: 3557
• Year Built: 2008
• Status: Sold

This is the best one-bedroom home at One Arts. Beyond the best location, the best site is ultimately what determines the happiness a home provides and its future value.Here, the One Arts building designed by Lionel Morrison, has the best location in the Dallas Arts District.

• Neighborhood: Downtown Dallas
• Architect: Lionel Morrison
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Living Area: 1264
• Year Built: 2005
• Status: Sold

Here is a traditional mid-century modern home that reflects much of original Preston Hollow. It makes sense that a quality custom-built home like this one would be built in the Biglot Addition of Preston Hollow East where one finds the largest lots which are almost one-half acre.

• Neighborhood: Biglot Addition
• Architectural Style: Mid-Century Modern Style Architecture
• Year Built: 1953

Joshua Nimmo designed an architecturally significant modern home that furthers the evolution of good design. This home also clarifies and amplifies the vision of Urban Reserve, an enclave of modern homes in an ecologically and aesthetically enlightened neighborhood.

• Neighborhood: Urban Reserve
• Architect: Joshua Nimmo
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 0.27
• Living Area: 2600
• Year Built: 2014
• Status: Sold

Bud Oglesby, FAIA, with Oglesby Architects, designed the best residential public spaces in Dallas. Bud Oglesby designed modern homes as large as 10,000 square feet or, like this modern Oglesby condominium on Armstrong and Travis, homes with 2,392 square feet.

• Neighborhood: Knox to Blackburn
• Architect: Bud Oglesby
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Living Area: 2392
• Year Built: 1981
• Status: Sold

Where else will you find an architect-designed home overlooking a meadow, forest and park, with a walking and biking paths down to the Bath House Cultural Center and Bath House Theater and White Rock Lake under $2 million?

• Neighborhood: Peninsula
• Architect: Ryan Grey Smith
• Architectural Style: Pre Fabricated Modern
• Acres: 0.22
• Living Area: 1994
• Year Built: 2012
• Status: Sold

Lionel Morrison received an AIA Honor Award for this 3,600 square-foot Travis townhouse located a block from Knox Street and Travis Walk that he designed in 1999. Now it is even better.

• Neighborhood: Knox to Blackburn
• Architect: Lionel Morrison
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 0.09
• Living Area: 3850
• Year Built: 1999
• Status: Sold

The most desirable Preston Hollow lots are on quiet streets and often in the middle of a block of other wide estate lots. A site like this provides privacy and a sweeping drive through an allée of Live Oak trees that conveys the original natural elegance of Preston Hollow.

• Neighborhood: Lobello Estates
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 1.21
• Living Area: 5549
• Year Built: 1960
• Status: Sold

The early modern home at 5017 Swiss Avenue expresses the architectural influence of Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Sullivan. The carved band of Sullivanesque detail, the Sullivanesque relief ornamentation on the dormer,under the deep eaves, and on the panel between the second story windows are outstanding examples of the Progressive Style and Prairie School architecture.

• Neighborhood: Swiss Avenue Historic District
• Architect: Svend Fruit
• Architectural Style: Prairie
• Acres: 0.52
• Living Area: 5300
• Year Built: 1907
• Status: Sold

Architect Scott Lyons enhanced a magical setting with a Texas Modern home that is thrust into nature with close and distant views in three directions of trees, gardens, a wide spring-fed creek and pond, and a twelve-acre private garden that is meticulously groomed and blooming.

• Neighborhood: Mayflower Estates
• Architect: Scott Lyons
• Architectural Style: Texas Modern
• Acres: 1.53
• Living Area: 8208
• Year Built: 1963
• Status: Sold

Arch Swank, one of the most accomplished modern architects in the 1950s, designed this architecturally significant modern home in 1957 in Highland North neighborhood located west of Midway Road.The architect was adept at siting the modern homes he designed on the most attractive land.

• Neighborhood: Highland North
• Architect: Arch B. Swank
• Renovate Architect: Cliff Welch
• Architectural Style: Mid-Century Modern Style Architecture
• Year Built: 1957
• Status: Sold

Architect Lionel Morrison energized the interest in modern homes with his series of modern single-family attached homes on Springbrook. Dallas has always had many of the best modern homes in the country. This modern home and the ones around it began the current wave of interest in modern architecture sweeping Dallas.

• Neighborhood: Northern Heights
• Architect: Lionel Morrison
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Living Area: 2442
• Year Built: 1990
• Status: Sold

Here in the Northern Heights neighborhood that is found along the Katy Trail, on the edge of Highland Park and within walking distance to Knox/Henderson, West Village or Turtle Creek, you will find this three-story modern single-family attached three-bedroom home with a swimming pool. The home has large art walls and voluminous spaces.

• Neighborhood: Northern Heights
• Acres: 0.09
• Living Area: 3359
• Year Built: 2007
• Status: Sold

Architect Max Sandfield designed this midcentury modern home on a 1.13 acre site along the 25-acre Crespi / Hicks estate property. The result of this modern period home being located in the quiet and prestigious Mayflower Estates neighborhood and having 25 acres of estate land behind it, is a site that is secluded, prominent and private.

• Neighborhood: Mayflower Estates
• Architect: Max M. Sandfield
• Architectural Style: Mid-Century Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 1.13
• Living Area: 4107
• Year Built: 1962
• Status: Sold

A contemporary house in the Katy Trail corridor of Old Highland Park. Two very large spaces with many windows are connected by double passageways or by a long corridor lined with windows. Every room has prominent views of the side courtyard with a perimeter of Cypress trees, creating a sophisticated canopy and serene space.

• Neighborhood: Katy Trail Corridor of Old Highland Park
• Architectural Style: Contemporary Style Architecture
• Status: Sold

Here is a Lionel Morrison architect designed 3,100 square foot home enjoying the luxury of a .70 acre Preston Hollow site. Open spaces and walls of glass looking into the garden convey modernism at its best.

• Neighborhood: Maywood Estates
• Architect: Lionel Morrison
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 0.7
• Living Area: 3171
• Year Built: 1994
• Status: Sold

The 2.63 acres is perfectly located to enjoy the 40 acres of ascending tree tops on the neighboring 25 acre Hicks and 15 acre Phillips estates both of which adjoin President George and Laura Bush’s Mayflower estate home.

• Neighborhood: Mayflower Estates
• Architect: Scott Lyons
• Architectural Style: Texas Modern
• Acres: 2.63
• Living Area: 9902
• Year Built: 1983
• Status: Sold

Max Sandfield designed this home for his own residence acting as architect and client. Max Sandfield was able to be more daring. He designed one of the first modern homes in Dallas capturing the architectural elements we now so closely associate with this revered architectural period.

• Neighborhood: University Heights No 6 & 7
• Architect: Max M. Sandfield
• Architectural Style: Mid-Century Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 0.26
• Living Area: 3327
• Year Built: 1951
• Status: Sold

Ideally located in the Janmar neighborhood of Preston Hollow, between Royal Lane and Forest Lane, on a wide sweeping lot facing Eudora. This four-bedroom, three and one-half bath midcentury home in Janmar, with a standing seam metal roof, has been beautifully renovated with the landscape designed by landscape architect Jeff Bargas.

• Neighborhood: Jan Mar
• Landscape Architect: Jeff Bargas
• Architectural Style: Mid-Century Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 0.44
• Living Area: 3918
• Year Built: 1959
• Status: Sold

• Neighborhood: Emerald Isle
• Year Built: 1952
• Status: Sold

Total renovation accentuates the Palm Springs modern look and feel of this midcentury home, wrapping around a pool and terraced lawn. Rooms are open and relate to each according to the occasion: elaborate entertaining, formal dinners, backyard barbecues, or having fun with close friends and family.

• Neighborhood: Northwood Hills
• Architectural Style: Mid-Century Modern Style Architecture
• Status: Sold

Frank Welch, FAIA, designed this modern home for the prominent family who developed Bent Tree. It is no wonder they chose this lot for their own modern estate home. Preston Trails golf course and a greenbelt wrap around this home, providing several acre views of green with a backdrop of forest in the distance.

• Neighborhood: Bent Tree
• Architect: Frank Welch
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 1.08
• Living Area: 5726
• Year Built: 1974
• Status: Sold

Sited on two beautiful acres and backed up to a greenbelt, this asking price reflects just land value and the fabulous architect designed home is an incredible bonus. Located in Bent Tree, this is the finest International Style modern home built in Dallas since the International Style home designed by Roscoe Dewitt, AIA, for Stanley Marcus on acreage in 1937.

• Neighborhood: Bent Tree
• Architect: James Nagle
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 1.99
• Living Area: 5181
• Year Built: 1976
• Status: Sold

The original owners of the last standing, architect designed, pristine condition, midcentury modern home in Preston Hollow have asked me to offer this architecturally significant home for sale. In 1957 the stylish and sophisticated owners assembled an incredibly talented team to design a midcentury modern home.

• Neighborhood: Mayflower Estates
• Architect: William Benson
• Interior Designer: Louise Kahn
• Landscape Architect: Richard Myrick
• Architectural Style: Mid-Century Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 0.47
• Living Area: 2720
• Year Built: 1957
• Status: Sold

O’Neil Ford and Arch Swank were brilliant when it came to selecting sites for the homes they designed. Here, O’Neil Ford and Arch Swank selected the top of the hill in Turtle Creek Park, alongside Rock Creek.

• Neighborhood: Turtle Creek Park
• Architect: O’Neil Ford
• Architectural Style: Early Texas Modern
• Acres: 0.32
• Living Area: 4149
• Year Built: 1936
• Status: Sold

Architect Lionel Morrison designed his finest modern town house at 4331 Travis. Beautiful natural light and low voltage light illuminate this stunning 3,865 square foot residence.

• Neighborhood: Knox to Blackburn
• Architect: Lionel Morrison
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 0.09
• Living Area: 3850
• Year Built: 1999
• Status: Sold

Tucked back from Travis and Armstrong there is an exquisite period piece of Modernism. This is the best Bud Oglesby designed condominium I have seen. The protected and intimate scale of these residences is quite elegant in a setting of restaurants and galleries.

• Neighborhood: Knox to Blackburn
• Architect: Bud Oglesby
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 0.93
• Living Area: 2100
• Year Built: 1981
• Status: Sold

Architect Bill Booziotis designed this 3,760 square foot home in the small, gated enclave sharing a private park along Turtle Creek in Christopher Place. Recent renovations include a new kitchen, new bathrooms, and bamboo and Paduak wood flooring.

• Neighborhood: Christopher Place
• Architect: Bill Booziotis
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 0.09
• Living Area: 3760
• Year Built: 1973
• Status: Sold

Edward Durell Stone was one of a handful of international architects who had the ability to design prominent skyscrapers, the symbol of the 20th century, modern museums looking at art and collections in a new way, and homes combining technology with humanity.

• Neighborhood: Preston Hollow Addition
• Architect: Edward Durell Stone
• Acres: 1.22
• Living Area: 10735
• Year Built: 1957
• Status: Sold

The greenbelt wraps around this mid-century modern home designed by architects Hidell & Decker, protégés of George Dahl and Howard Meyer respectively. The 3,850 original square feet reflect coherent volumes and design.

• Neighborhood: Greenway Parks
• Architect: Hidell & Decker
• Architectural Style: Mid-Century Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 0.29
• Living Area: 3850
• Year Built: 1955
• Status: Sold

Architect James Langford who worked with I.M. Pei on the Meyerson Symphony Center, designed this spectacular Highland Park three-story residence with a rooftop pool and view of the Dallas skyline and the Katy Trail.

• Neighborhood: Fourth Section of Old Highland Park
• Architect: James Langford
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 0.17
• Living Area: 5462
• Year Built: 2003
• Status: Sold

The stylish urban elegance of this home is combined with a 1/3 acre of land that stretches along the Katy Trail. The walls of split face cast stone and stucco further delineate the geometric composition of this three story home overlooking the greenbelt of Turtle Creek.

• Neighborhood: Turtle Creek Park
• Interior Designer: Wilson & Associates
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 0.38
• Living Area: 4478
• Year Built: 2000
• Status: Sold

Bob James designed this AIA award-winning home to blend into the neighborhood and provide dramatic views by the surrounding creek and woods. With 3,450 square feet, it is both stylish and practical sited on one-half acre overlooking Royal Branch Creek and a public wilderness park behind it.

• Neighborhood: Brookshire Park
• Architect: Robert James
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 0.73
• Living Area: 3525
• Year Built: 2000
• Building Name: Vicki’s Creek House
• Status: Sold

Architect Scott Marek has designed several modern homes in Urban Reserve, a Dallas enclave of modern homes. My favorite one is this modern home he designed at 60 Vanguard Way.

• Neighborhood: Urban Reserve
• Architect: Scott Marek
• Architectural Style: Modern Style Architecture
• Living Area: 4647
• Year Built: 2016
• Status: Sold

Charles Dilbeck was a prolific architect, much loved and currently featured at the Meadows Museum’s architecture exhibit Crafting Traditions. This four-bedroom Dilbeck home across the street from Williams Park was designed in 1934 next to another architectural masterpiece, the home designed by David Williams for the mayor of University Park in 1932.

• Neighborhood: St. Andrews Place
• Architect: Charles S. Dilbeck
• Architectural Style: Early Texas Modern
• Acres: 0.25
• Living Area: 4790
• Year Built: 1935
• Status: Sold