Mid-Century Modern Homes

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

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

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

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

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

This 2,400 square foot, three-bedroom, two-bath home is a celebration of one of Dallas’s best architectural firms of the mid 20th century, Hidell and Decker, who originally designed this award-winning home in 1951, and one of the best current architecture firms with a passion for midcentury modern architecture, Bodron+Fruit, who designed the modern renovation in the 21st century.

• Neighborhood: Greenway Parks
• Architect: Hidell & Decker
• Renovate Architect: Svend Fruit
• Architectural Style: Mid-Century Modern Style Architecture
• Living Area: 2400
• Year Built: 1951
• Status: Sold

• Neighborhood: Westminster Place
• Architect: Glenn Allen Galaway
• Architectural Style: Mid-Century Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 0.28
• Living Area: 2044
• Year Built: 1966

Harwell Hamilton Harris is one of the most important architects to have ever designed a home in Dallas. His work appears from the East to the West Coast, but he is most closely associated with the California mid-century modernist movement.

• Neighborhood: Sunnybrook Estates
• Architect: Harwell Hamilton Harris
• Architectural Style: Mid-Century Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 0.86
• Living Area: 3993
• Year Built: 1958

David Braden designed this home in Oak Cliff at 665 West Colorado in 1950. This home is just a cube with square-hipped roof but built on a severe slope by a creek and in a flood plain. It visually becomes a floating cube sheathed in redwood and brick, blending into the forest in the background.

• Neighborhood: Kessler Park
• Architect: David Braden
• Acres: 0.76
• Living Area: 3237
• Year Built: 1950

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

• Neighborhood: Lake Highlands
• Architect: Bentley Tibbs
• Architectural Style: Mid-Century Modern Style Architecture
• Building Name: Langdale House

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

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

• 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

• Neighborhood: Lakewood
• Architect: Joseph Gordon
• Architectural Style: Mid-Century Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 0.38
• Living Area: 3020
• Year Built: 1955

Sited on a peninsula, a footbridge leads you over the creek to the house defined by the meandering creek on three sides. Jim Wiley of the Oglesby Group designed this 2,000 square foot home for Mr. and Mrs. Bartram Kelley in 1956 to accommodate their love of music.

• Neighborhood: Hackberry Creek Acreage of Old Highland Park
• Architect: Jim Wiley, Dallas Architect
• Architectural Style: Mid-Century Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 1.43
• Living Area: 2865
• Year Built: 1956
• Building Name: Kelley Residence

In 1951, Howard Meyer designed this International Modern style home for Mr. and Mrs. Ben Lipshy. It was beautifully restored by Carolyn and James Clark in 1981. Art and architectural historian Rick Brettell calls this “the finest International Modernist house in Texas.”

• Neighborhood: Greenway Parks
• Architect: Howard R. Meyer
• Architectural Style: International Style Architecture
• Acres: 0.26
• Living Area: 3558
• Year Built: 1951

This modern home was built in 2005 and a project of the architecture firm Merrill, Pastor & Colgan who have designed buildings all over the world. The home sits in the first section of Old Highland Park with many windows across the facade.

• Neighborhood: First Section of Old Highland Park
• Architect: E.G. Hamilton
• Architectural Style: Contemporary Style Architecture
• Acres: 0.64
• Living Area: 6827
• Year Built: 1967

• Neighborhood: Mayflower Estates
• Architect: Alfred T. Gilman
• Architectural Style: Mid-Century Modern Style Architecture
• Acres: 0.99
• Living Area: 6281
• Year Built: 1954