Architecturally Significant Listings

Dallas Had Been Waiting 45 Years For This Hal Thomson Designed Highland Park Home to Come on the Market, and Now It Has Been Successfully Sold

3925 Potomac Avenue, Dallas, Texas

Hal Thomson Historic Highland Park Home – $4,100,000 Sold with Preservation Deed Restriction

How does a home become one of the favorite homes in Highland Park? In the case of 3925 Potomac, it has happened over a span of 100 years. From the time architect Hal Thomson designed this home for his family, it has been admired by those in Highland Park and across Dallas.

Dallas Modern Home – Sold by Douglas Newby

5543 Drane Drive, Dallas, Texas – Celebrating Sunlight

Max Levy Architect Designed Modern Home in Greenway Parks
Contact Listing Agent Douglas Newby – Sold by Douglas Newby

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. Max Levy said that by respecting the trees, he was able to orchestrate a floor plan so that views from the home would be centered on the five live oak trees. The rooftop screen porch in the center of the home creates a treehouse space that enjoys a fireplace and view of the pool and the green of the garden.

One of the Five Best Homes on Swiss Sold – Architect Hal Thomson

5323 Swiss Avenue, Dallas, Texas

Hal Thomson Historic Home on Swiss Avenue – Sold by Douglas Newby

Swiss Avenue is the cradle of Dallas architecture and architecturally significant homes. Architect Hal Thomson, who designed this home in 1914 at 5323 Swiss Avenue, is the godfather of Dallas architects. Many don’t realize the impact and influence the homes on Swiss Avenue and architect Hal Thomson have on the architecture and architects in Dallas. Many consider 5323 Swiss to be one of the best five homes in the Swiss Avenue Historic District and one of the most architecturally significant homes in Dallas. You can scroll through Centennial Pictures of all 100 homes on Swiss Avenue and determine what you think are the best five homes on Swiss Avenue.

After a Grand Tour of Europe, Hal Thomson Made His Mark on Swiss Avenue

Henry B. Thomson (Hal Thomson) was a society architect who after his grand tour of Europe made his mark on Swiss Avenue before he began designing architecturally significant homes in Highland Park. The Aldredge house also on Swiss Avenue and 5323 Swiss Avenue that Douglas Newby recently sold quickly come to mind when one thinks of architect Hal Thomson.

David Williams Designed Home

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.”

Designer Michael Lee Magic Seen at Turtle Creek High-Rise #306

3535 Gillespie Street, Dallas, Texas #306

306 Residence at Plaza at Turtle Creek 1 – Sold by Douglas Newby

Designer Michael Lee, who has received design accolades from clients and publications around the world, has created his magic once again in #306, my favorite residence at Plaza at Turtle Creek 1. Michael Lee has a deft ability to combine modern and antiques, even antiquities, that exude contemporary style and elegance. Another reason my favorite Plaza One at Turtle Creek residence is #306 is because it is one of only two corner residences in this 44-residence seven-story high-rise building. Located at 3535 Gillespie Street, this high-rise is nestled into the Turtle Creek neighborhood and is located next to the Mansion on Turtle Creek. The residence at #306 receives both morning and afternoon dappled sunlight streaming through the treetops. The guest bedroom collects the morning sun, while the primary bedroom has both the morning and afternoon sun. The formal rooms and kitchen are also illuminated by the afternoon sun.

Highland Park One Acre Estate Site – Sold by Douglas Newby

4400 Belfort Place, Highland Park, Texas

Beautiful Site for the Architecturally Significant Estate Home That Will Be Offered for Sale by Douglas Newby

Douglas Newby sold property which is one of the most elegant lots in Highland Park. This one acre site at 4400 Belfort Place has a distinct presence from Armstrong Parkway and the intimacy of Belfort Place that curves around the estate home being built.

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.”

Douglas Newby Sold and Closed Lang & Witchell Designed Home on Swiss Avenue

5112 Swiss Avenue, Dallas, Texas

Architects Lang & Witchell Designed Home on Swiss Avenue Boulevard – Sold by Douglas Newby

This architecturally significant Lang & Witchell designed home is the architectural exclamation mark of this Swiss Avenue block that boasts three Lang & Witchell architect-designed homes. National award-winning Realtor Douglas Newby has now sold every home on this block face of Swiss Avenue boulevard, including all three Lang & Witchell designed architecturally significant homes on the block.

Architecturally Significant Dines and Kraft Home in Lakewood

6633 Country Club Circle, Dallas, Texas

English Style Estate Home Overlooking Lakewood Golf Course – Sold by Douglas Newby

The finest neighborhoods have an anchor of architectural styles and architects. The best neighborhoods also convey a sense of community. The home at 6633 Country Club Circle exemplifies both of these qualities.

Dines and Kraft Designed Homes were Prevalent in Lakewood in the 1920s

In the 1920s, Dines and Kraft were responsible for many of the English style estate homes still enjoyed today in the Lakewood Conservation District, including this historic home at 6633 Country Club Circle. This historic and architecturally significant home at 6633 Country Club Circle enjoys the prime position on an island of only 14 significant homes that look across the golf course of Lakewood Country Club to a clear view of downtown Dallas.

Hal Thomson Designed Home on Swiss Avenue Sold by Douglas Newby

5520 Swiss Avenue, Dallas, Texas

Henry B. Thomson Designed Residence – Sold by Douglas Newby

I always strive for a gracious transaction like this one between a fabulous buyer and seller who both love historic homes. The seller, a Swiss Avenue home owner for nearly 4 decades, asked me to sell her home. I was delighted and honored to represent her. Also, I was excited to offer a home for sale designed by Hal Thomson, the first prominent society architect of Dallas and his junior architect partner James Cheek who went on to design Highland Park Village and many architecturally significant homes with his architecture partner Marion Fooshee.

Highland Park Home on Wide Lot
Sold by National Award Winning Realtor Douglas Newby

Highland Park Neighborhood Home

Home in Highland Park With View of Park – Sold by Douglas Newby

Often homes built 20 years ago are overlooked. This is one of my favorite Highland Park homes from 2001 because it was designed and built by an architect. Much of the façade is clad in stone and this Highland Park home is designed on a corner with massive street frontage that allows privacy and views of blue skies. An added treat are views of Versailles Park from the rear garden of this Highland Park home.

6358 Vanderbilt Avenue, Dallas, Texas

Architect Bentley Tibbs Designed Modern Home

Lakewood Heights Modern Home Perfect for Family or Empty Nester – Sold by Douglas Newby

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.

The architectural design of this family home draws from the 1920s Lakewood Heights neighborhood while presenting a modern interpretation of a family home. The kitchen opens to a dining and living area and covered terrace, all with views of the deep lawn and swimming pool. Glass windows and doors wrap around the home accentuating the sunlight and views.

Covered Terraces and Courtyards

The covered terrace opening from the living room, kitchen, and dining room extends the living area of the home, whether you are cooking outside or just enjoying the breezes sweeping in from the southeast. The living area also opens to an interior courtyard and covered terrace that is visually appealing and further extends the home for entertaining.

Turtle Creek Home Embraces Nature and Vibrancy

3901 Turtle Creek Boulevard #1, Dallas, Texas

The Architectural Centerpiece of Places Des Vosges – Sold by Douglas Newby

Architect James Langford designed the architecturally significant urban neighborhood around #1 Place des Vosges. The triangular plan of the grouped homes on the perimeter warmly embrace the interior common area of green space and #1 Place des Vosges, positioned to enjoy the visual axis to the parks of Turtle Creek and downtown Dallas.

Swiss Avenue Home Designed by C.W. Bulger & Son

5105 Swiss Avenue, Dallas, Texas

Prominent Italian Renaissance Style Home on Swiss – Sold by Douglas Newby

This Italian Renaissance style home designed by C.W. Bulger & Son has long been a favorite home on Swiss Avenue and in Dallas. The home at 5105 Swiss Avenue is on a block of the Swiss Avenue boulevard that is made up of some of the most important architecturally significant homes on the street. Elaborate vast gardens create an environment you would never guess is only two miles from the Dallas Arts District in downtown Dallas.

Over the years many people consistently identified this architecturally significant home as their favorite on the street. The Swiss Avenue boulevard is the only street in Dallas people will stroll down or drive down, looking at the houses as if they were walking through an art gallery. Each home is architecturally distinctive and creates an unsurpassed 20th century body of work.

Joshua Nimmo-Designed Modern Home Personifies Urban Reserve

26 Vanguard Way, Dallas, Texas

Glass Walls Provide Multiple Views of Pond – Sold By Douglas Newby

Joshua Nimmo Designed Modern Home in Urban Reserve

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. Glass walls allow view of the pond from inside of house and glass walls from exterior porches on both sides of this modern home.

Joshua Nimmo Responds to Urban Reserve

Architect Joshua Nimmo responds to the ecologically sensitive environment of Urban Reserve, capturing its beauty, serenity, and dynamic architectural modern backdrop. When you approach the home at 26 Vanguard Way, you know Urban Reserve is a success.

White Rock Lake Estate Home Draws Buyers From Across Dallas

4321 West Lawther Drive, Dallas, Texas

Estate Home on 3 Acres – Sold by Douglas Newby

Architect Howard R. Meyer is one of the most celebrated modern architects in Dallas. In 1939/1940 he designed the Georgian home at 4321 West Lawther Drive located at White Rock Lake. This Howard Meyer architect-designed home is just one of a few that are on the estate cove of White Rock Lake. This estate home on three acres has the characteristics that everyone now is wishing for – it is immersed in nature, surrounded by vibrancy, and designed in a way that creates happiness when living, working and playing in the home.

Scott Marek Designed Modern Home in Dallas

60 Vanguard Way, Dallas, Texas

Modern Home Vanguard Way – Sold by Douglas Newby

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. Walls of windows, porches and balcony terraces allow views in two or three directions of creeks, bike trails, and the landscaping surrounding the other modern homes. There are very few opportunities in Dallas to buy a modern home that is surrounded by other architecturally significant modern homes.

Victorian Style Home in Oak Lawn

4002 Gilbert Avenue, Dallas, Texas

Oak Lawn Real Estate – Sold by Douglas Newby

D Magazine’s 10 Most Charming Homes 2020 included this 1996 meticulously built one-story Victorian style architect-designed home capturing the detail, 11-foot ceilings, wood floors of a historic home, deep pier and beam and quality construction of a new home. Many large windows and sense of openness suggests a more contemporary floor plan. Large apartment over three-car garage provides a guesthouse or a possible source of income. Charming white picket fenced yard and gracious front porch announce this home in the vibrant Oak Lawn district. Here is an opportunity to purchase a home less than replacement cost and enjoy architectural splendor.

Best of Both Worlds

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.

Northern Hills Video of a Favorite Neighborhood

Geographically, the home is sited on the cusp of the Northern Hills neighborhood and Highland Park.  You will enjoy the intimacy of the neighborhood and the architectural civility of living in the Northern Hills Conservation District.

You will be protected from the possibility of oversized homes being built behind you or next to you.  An undesirable scale of looming houses invading your privacy and blocking the sun is prohibited.

Condominium Triumph 

3217 Armstrong Avenue, Dallas, Texas

Bud Oglesby Condominium on Armstrong and Travis – Sold by Douglas Newby

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. However, whether large or small, these modern architecturally significant homes open to voluminous and open living spaces that connect to the rest of the home.  This modern residence has a further advantage of even greater expanded space with the living room wall of accordion glass doors that open to the freshly renovated outdoor living room and side courtyard with a vertical water feature, enjoying the dappled sunlight from the nearby canopy of trees.

Northern Hills Neighborhood Home

3617 Cragmont Avenue, Dallas, Texas

Dallas Historic Home for Sale – Sold by Douglas Newby

This classic Northern Hills historic home for sale is sited on an elevated lot in the middle of the block on the crest of a hill overlooking the charming historic homes on Cragmont, shaded by a canopy of trees. This one-and-a-half block quiet, tree-lined street terminates in Highland Park on one end and the Katy Trail on the other end. Topography, trees, seclusion, significant architecture, and a pleasing scale protected by the Northern Hills Conservation District are just some of the reasons this Northern Hills enclave of 60 homes is the most desired neighborhood in Dallas.

Home on Park and Lake

1116 Bally Mote Drive, Dallas, Texas

White Rock Lake Home on East Lawther Drive – Sold by Douglas Newby

This White Rock Lake home sits on Arboretum Point, once the prettiest lake front property owned by the Dallas Arboretum. Now this .53 acre elevated and terraced site becomes the platform for a European inspired home to look over White Rock Lake and across White Rock Park and the wildflower meadows of the hill of Winfrey Point.

Modernity of European Inspired Home

You will find the grace and warmth of this European inspired home framed by a magnolia tree with a charming wooden bench in front in the small, secluded Emerald Isle neighborhood located between White Rock Lake and the Dallas Arboretum. From the inviting public entrance you will see through the open gated door and on through the wide outdoor hall to White Rock Lake. The view of White Rock Lake only widens as you step through the private front door of the home into the spacious rooms with an abundance of floor-to-ceiling glass windows and doors that open to terraces and porches that wrap around the home and provide panoramic views of the lake from both the first and second floors.

White Rock Lake Estate Home

4211 West Lawther Drive, Dallas, Texas

Estate Property on 3.95 Acres – Sold by Douglas Newby

Architect Ted Larson, contractor Randy Clowdus and landscape architect David Hocker renovated and created this spectacular home and landscape design. On nearly four acres, the most beautiful elevated point of White Rock Lake with 356 feet of frontage, you will find this 1936 renovated estate home. The talents of architect Ted Larson, contractor Randy Clowdus, and landscape architect David Hocker are showcased in this remarkable estate property offered for sale.

Prominent 100 Year Old Dines & Kraft Home in the Lakewood Conservation District

6633 Country Club Circle, Dallas, Texas – Previously Sold

Example of a Lakewood Conservation District Home – Sold by Douglas Newby

This over 100-year-old home is an architecturally significant example of a Lakewood home designed and built by Dines and Kraft. The dark red brick accentuates the green Ludowici tile roof.

In the Lakewood Conservation District, it is one of three homes located on Country Club Circle that overlooks the Lakewood Country Club golf course, the historic Lakewood theater and downtown Dallas.

Home in Heart of Greenway Parks

5373 Wenonah Drive, Dallas, Texas – Torn Down

Largest Lot – .951 Acres – Sold by Douglas Newby

Personification of Greenway Parks

This architecturally significant home best expresses the charm, architecture, and desirability of Greenway Parks. Its architectural pedigree is strong. The home was originally designed by Fooshee & Cheek, the architects of Highland Park Village. The renovation was designed by Allen Kirsch, celebrated for his work on some of the best homes in Dallas. The parks of Greenway Parks and boulevard parks surround the home, accentuating its front porch charm.

Greenway Parks Conservation District

Greenway Parks is a collection of homes designed and built in many sizes and styles. A conservation district ensures that the scale and design of the homes in Greenway Parks remain true to the neighborhood and its aesthetic success. On nearly one acre, a Preston Hollow estate size lot, this 1951 colonial style home sits graciously on the site and reflects the friendly neighborhood atmosphere of Greenway Parks. Found in the middle of the neighborhood, it is removed from the traffic found on the neighborhood’s bordering roads that make Greenway Parks so convenient to the private schools in one direction and downtown Dallas in the other. Also, Highland Park Village is just walking distance away.

Preston Hollow Acreage

5230 Yolanda Lane, Dallas, Texas

1.21 Acres, 200 Feet Wide – Sold by Douglas Newby

The most desirable Preston Hollow lots are on quiet streets and in the middle of the 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. A tornado swept through Lobello Estates removing these live oaks creating a blank slate for a new architect-designed Dallas modern home.

White Rock Lake Modern Home for Sale

9211 E. Lake Highlands Drive, Dallas, Texas

Inspired Dallas Modern in Peninsula Neighborhood – Sold by Douglas Newby

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?

Open, efficient space makes this a home with modern appeal and much convenience. Surrounded by windows and doors opening to the outdoors, the porch and terrace allow you to fully embrace nature and the convenience of a modern home. Why opt for a big house, town house, high rise or condominium when you can have the best of all worlds on East Lake Highlands Drive, in the Peninsula neighborhood of architect-designed modern homes?

This neighborhood has immense appeal. For instance, if one is an avid cyclist, runner or walker there are many routes the neighborhood presents and the eclectic mix of newer modern homes and one-story traditional homes coexist peacefully with the lake and forested neighborhood as its backdrop. Its location is close to downtown Dallas, the Arts District, SMU and there is easy access to major thoroughfares for those with a longer commute.

Architect-Renovated, Award-Winning Lionel Morrison Town House

4331 Travis Street, Dallas, Texas

Town House Modern – Sold by Douglas Newby

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. The CEO and managing partner of a leading national design oriented architectural firm, totally renovated the space, making it structurally and aesthetically sleeker, the environment greener, and the space even more inviting.

Highland Park Land For Sale

3509 Lexington Avenue, Dallas, Texas

A 100-Foot Wide Lot in Old Highland Park – .428 Acres – Sold by Douglas Newby

This rare Highland Park 100-foot wide lot for sale is located on Lexington Avenue, a beautiful street of architecturally significant estate homes. There are very few Highland Park lots for sale that have this much land, almost half an acre, so well placed in this prestigious neighborhood of old Highland Park.

Early 20th Century Modern Home on Swiss Avenue For Sale

5017 Swiss Avenue, Dallas, Texas

5,300 Square Foot Home on .52 Acres – Sold by Douglas Newby

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. This ornamentation emphasizes the streamlined horizontal lines of Frank Lloyd Wright’s designs.

Turtle Creek Real Estate and Modern Home for Sale

3840 Turtle Creek Drive, Dallas, Texas

Turtle Creek Park Home on .58 Acres – Sold by Douglas Newby

Set high on the private Turtle Creek Drive, this Turtle Creek land is the best site for a new modern home. Currently the existing home looks over the manicured lawn of a $20 million home to the view of Turtle Creek. The Dallas skyline is in the background in one direction, luxury Turtle Creek highrises in the other across the creek. Walk along the Katy Trail to West Village or Knox-Henderson.

This period modern residence enjoys the forested serenity of Turtle Creek Park and the energy of the city. Just two miles from the Arts District and a few blocks from Highland Park, this small, secure neighborhood is my favorite in Dallas.

On .58 Acres in Turtle Creek Park by the Katy Trail

Here you will find a 3,000 square foot period modern home that blends into the landscape and captures the pastoral and wooded views of Turtle Creek Park and the urban views of the city on the horizon

Renovated Highland Park Home For Sale

4541 South Versailles Avenue, Dallas, Texas

Gracious Four-Bedroom Historic Home – Sold by Douglas Newby

This classic 1929 Highland Park home for sale has the same architectural distinction as the Highland Park estate homes nearby.  An elegant floor plan of open rooms, banks of double-hung windows providing lots of sunlight, and a master bedroom on the first floor allow a large playroom, office, and laundry room on the second floor that includes three more spacious bedrooms.

A renovated kitchen with marble counter tops accommodates a large breakfast table and opens to the informal living room.  You will find this totally redone original Highland Park home with hardwood floors and Highland Park architectural details in the middle of a great block of towering trees and good looking homes filled with families and children.

Midcentury Modern Home in Highland North Neighborhood

10306 Crittendon Drive, Dallas, Texas, 75229

Award Winning Architect Arch Swank Designed This Modern Home – Sold by Douglas Newby

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.

Arch Swank had the ability to incorporate the topography and create contemporary houses that embrace the nature around them. One sees examples of this at the early modern home he designed on 3514 Rock Creek Drive and this midcentury modern home on Crittendon Drive.

Modern Home For Sale on 1.53 Acres

Overlooking 12-Acre Private Garden on Other Side of Pond

Best Sited Texas Modern Home in Preston Hollow Estate Area – Scott Lyons Architect – Sold by Douglas Newby

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. Scott Lyons designed homes for the most prominent and successful families including Ed Cox who this home was designed for in 1963 in the Mayflower Estates Neighborhood. This Preston Hollow estate home is  a city home but without any other homes within its views.

Modern Architecture That Embraces Site and Surrounding Nature

This 8,208 square foot, four bedroom home has materials that blend into the site.  The soft Mexican brick continuous interior and exterior walls in the tradition of O’Neil Ford further push this modern home into nature.  Wrap around balconies and terraces off several rooms extend the Scott Lyons’ living spaces under a canopy of trees.

Finest Home in Lakewood

6676 Lakewood Boulevard, Dallas, Texas

Lakewood Home on .578 Acres – Sold by Douglas Newby

Here is the much loved Lakewood home that expresses the elegance of its 1933 era and the sunlit-filled openness that is so desired by homeowners now. You will enjoy the exquisite historic detail and sleek renovation.

Every Prestigious Neighborhood Has One Revered Home

University Park Estate Home For Sale

6825 Golf Drive, Dallas, Texas

Park Cities Land .662 Acres – Sold by Douglas Newby

On Turtle Creek, across from Volk Estates, this original 1935 estate home is bordered by park land on two other sides.

Narrow, Winding Neighborhood Path to Curtis Park

The abundant landscape of the park visually extends from the front garden of this estate home on Golf Drive to the winding sidewalk path that originates in this quiet green corridor at the end of the neighborhood and leads to the Turtle Creek pond at Curtis Park.

Preston Hollow Home for Sale on 1.07 Acres

5272 Ravine Drive, Dallas, Texas

Privacy and Elegance of
Ravine Drive – Sold by Douglas Newby

One of the grand and original estate homes of Preston Hollow is for sale. This English Style Preston Hollow home with 6,910 square feet is sited on Ravine Drive, a hidden street that curves around from Meadowbrook to Park Lane in the heart of Preston Hollow.

Estate Home Materials – Brick, Stone, and Slate

The materials in this gracious estate home reflect the quality of its era. Built in 1939, you will find this brick home to have a slate roof and been well maintained. The home’s very large formal rooms show its earlier importance and provide the spaces desired today. The informal living room is large by even today’s standards, as is the formal library and game room. Hardwood floors and original stained moldings provide warmth to the home.

Preston Hollow Estate Lot and Pool

Many will desire this property just for the land and location and abundant mature trees and pool. The home has two large second-floor terraces overlooking the garden, creating additional desirable space for you to enjoy.

Max Sandfield Midcentury For Sale in Mayflower Estates

10036 Hollow Way Road, Dallas, Texas

Preston Hollow Home – Sold by Douglas Newby

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.

Mayflower Estates in Preston Hollow Neighborhood with Great Homes from Every Decade

Mayflower Estates is a hidden neighborhood with winding streets, creeks and lakes. Mayflower Estates has the largest estate homes in Preston Hollow and the coolest midcentury modern homes.

This Max Sandfield modern home is a midcentury modern home that is buffered from three-story homes by the period architect designed homes beside it and the 12-acre garden of the Crespi / Hicks estate behind it.

Green Architecture Dallas

5112 Horseshoe Trail, Dallas, Texas

Gary Olp, Architect

Green architecture, modern design, and Bluffview setting. The result is a dynamic home, environmentally sound, one that is bold and graceful, and a home that celebrates the attractiveness of the Bluffiview neighborhood.

Bluffview Modern Home on .52 Acres

Whether it is geothermal conditioned air and heat, a natural thermal chimney, or the use of energy saving or renewable materials, this Gary Olp designed home has been celebrated as a landmark for the direction of architecture and construction.

Rather than a democratic distribution of space among three bedrooms, this home emphasizes the open public spaces on the first floor and the private master bedroom suite and balcony on the second floor. In addition to the master bedroom suite, there are two bedrooms, another full bath and an office on the second floor. A full bath on the first level can also be used as a cabana bath. A simple structure and outdoor shower relate to the pool.

White Rock Lake Estate Property For Sale

4307 West Lawther Drive, Dallas, Texas

White Rock Lake Home on Hill Overlooking the Lake – Sold by Douglas Newby

This three-acre property is bounded by West Lawther in the front and Fisher Road in the back.  It is platted as a two-acre property with a 6,113 square foot home on West Lawther and a one-acre property that faces Fisher Road and overlooks a tennis court on the property and a park that is across Fisher Road.

White Rock Lake Home

While the property is being offered at land value for 3 acres, the 6,113 square foot home itself, on 2 acres, is an attractive and enjoyable place to live. The current homeowner was inspired by the Malibu campus which he was instrumental in developing when he was president of Pepperdine University. For his White Rock Lake home he insisted on the largest glass windows possible across the front of the house to capture the full views of the lake from the top of this Dallas hill overlooking White Rock Lake.

The living room, dining room and breakfast room overlooking the lake are open to the kitchen. The first-floor master bedroom and library also have beautiful views of the lake. An enormous informal living room and game room overlook the rear garden, tennis court and additional acreage.

White Rock Lake Home on Hill Overlooking the Lake

Here is a three-acre property with one of the prettiest views of White Rock Lake. High on the hill overlooking White Rock Lake, you will enjoy the long view of the lake, looking out at the sail boats in the distance.

Perfect Site on White Rock Lake

The coves and points of White Rock Lake give every home a different visual orientation. This White Rock Lake property is perfectly sited and enjoys the extra wide lots and acreage of its White Rock Lake neighbors. The expansive lake frontage of both neighbors expands your view and the privacy and serenity of this property.

Modern Home For Sale in Northern Heights

3515 Springbrook Street, Dallas, Texas

Contemporary Home Close to Katy Trail – Sold by Douglas Newby

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.

Sunlight Fills Single-Family Attached Modern Home

Sunlight pours into this home, illuminating the open kitchen and breakfast room. A two-story space for the living room also collects sunlight and opens onto the balcony and terrace.

Neighborhood of Architect Designed Homes

In Northern Hills and Northern Heights you will find early 20th century historic single-family homes, architect-designed modern homes, attached single-family homes and townhouses. This small, protected neighborhood is close to what is best about Dallas.

Lakeside Drive Estate Home

4608 Lakeside Drive, Dallas, Texas

In Highland Park Overlooking Turtle Creek – Sold by Douglas Newby

This Highland Park estate home on Lakeside Drive, the most prestigious street in Old Highland Park, has the most beautiful views of Turtle Creek. Inside the house or on the front terrace, you are looking across the lilly pads and great expanse of water framed by azaleas and distant views of the sweeping lawns of magnificent estate properties. The Mediterranean style reflects original Highland Park, the clean design of open rooms conveys a sense of modernity.

Munger Place Home for Sale

5012 Junius Street, Dallas, Texas

One of the Finest Homes in Historic District – Sold by Douglas Newby

This Munger Place home received the Restoration House of the Year Award when it was first restored by a founder of Preservation Dallas. Recently, it has been further renovated by its current owners who are in the design industry, including a new kitchen. Beautiful front doors open to the wrap-around porch in a neighborhood known for its front porch atmosphere and neighborhood collegiality.

Munger Place Historic District

Munger Place was the first single-family historic district in the city. This neighborhood is in the center of vibrant Old East Dallas neighborhoods, and it is surrounded by three other historic districts: Jefferson Peak Historic District, Junius Heights Historic District, and Swiss Avenue Historic District.

Old Highland Park Home Across from Gardens of Town Hall

4709 Drexel Drive, Dallas, Texas

Highland Park Neighborhood – Sold by Douglas Newby

Highland Park is loved for its beauty, safety and homes. This 1915 original Highland Park home enjoys the views of the gardens and creek of Highland Park Town Hall. This Highland Park residence also enjoys a glimpse of the ornately detailed Spanish Colonial-style Highland Park Town Hall tower designed by architects Lang and Witchell.

Advantageous Highland Park Location

Receded behind this Highland Park home is the finest modern home designed by Scott Lyons and gardens designed by Arthur and Marie Berger, sited on an acre of land. Here you will have the opportunity to purchase an original Highland Park home on arguably the safest site in Highland Park, and a home with one of the greatest proximities to Prather Park and Davis Park, Hackberry Creek and the beautiful landscape of Highland Park. For more information on this listed home that will be coming on the market call 214-522-1000.

Estate Home on 3 Acres with Home on Hilltop Overlooking Lake

4321 West Lawther Drive, Dallas, Texas

Architect Howard Meyer Designed Home in 1939 – Sold by Douglas Newby

At the best location on White Rock Lake you are able to buy three acres of land and have a Howard Meyer architect designed home with perfect proportions. This 1939 home has been structurally brought to date, making it easy to create a new kitchen and master bathroom.

This 3-Acre Property is One of Only Six on the White Rock Lake Cove of Estate Properties

This spectacular property has wide frontage on White Rock Lake, and it has the perfect site high on the hill for the estate home. The property has three acres that continue all the way to Fisher Road in the back, overlooking the expansive greenbelt.  Many consider this the most attractive lot on White Rock Lake facing the sailboats in the front and the park land in the back.

Highland Park Contemporary Home

3117 Cornell Avenue, Dallas, Texas

On Block With Entrance to Katy Trail – Sold by Douglas Newby

Landscape architect Thomas Armstrong is attributed with the design of this modern home he had built for himself. It is sited on a Highland Park block with an entrance to the Katy Trail. Raised from the street, the flat roof and geometric blocking convey its modernity.

A Design That Creates Privacy on a Highland Park Lot

An entrance court hides the front door from public view. An interior wall of windows brings into view the forested side courtyard. The perimeter row of cypress trees hides the neighboring home and provides a tranquil canopy to this serene and private outdoor space.

Open Spaces Linked by Hall Lined With Windows

The transition from the outside begins with the terraced steps wrapping around the front motor court to the entrance court. The front door opens to a combined entrance and large living area that share 12-inch polished Italian ceramic tile floors and a composition of windows that allows you to look out over the front garden and side courtyard.

Lionel Morrison Modern Home

4330 Beechwood Lane, Dallas, Texas

Architect Designed Modern House – Sold by Douglas Newby

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. Stylish and efficient space makes this home both glamorous and manageable.

Preston Hollow Lot for Sale

9236 Hollow Way Road, Dallas, Texas

Best Location – Extraordinary Site – Sold by Douglas Newby

Here is a site suitable for an architecturally significant home. The lot is wide, deep, surrounded by trees and other expensive architect designed homes. Even more important, the neighboring Bud Oglesby designed modern home and the Charles Dilbeck designed 1934 home are built on very small footprints.

These bordering homes are renovated, expensive and take up very little space in relationship to the size of their approximately 1.3 acre estate properties filled with trees and the edge of a small lake.

Estate Property is Over 200 ft Wide and 200 ft Deep

A wide lot provides distance from your neighbors. A deep lot allows you to place the home back on the lot and still have a rear garden large enough for a pool, gazebo, sculpture garden and terraces. An ordinary narrow and long lot begs for privacy and has land in the back that is not easily accessible and is always underutilized. A site more evenly proportioned, like this wide and deep lot, allows a home to be perfectly placed, with views of gardens in every direction.

Versailles Park Accentuates Original Highland Park Home for Sale

4417 South Versailles Avenue, Dallas, Texas

Estate Home on 100′ Wide Lot – Sold by Douglas Newby

A Highland Park estate home offered for sale that embodies all the underlying qualities that make Highland Park one of the most beautiful and prestigious townships in the nation. Here is the architectural elegance from America’s Golden Age of estate home architecture on a wide, graceful lot with magnificent magnolia and oak trees.

Architects Goodwin and Tatum designed this home with a sweeping staircase and spacious rooms overlooking a park that appears as if it was designed for this Highland Park home.

Early Estate Home Sited on Most Romantic Location In Highland Park

Everyone knows and feels the lure of Highland Park. The most talented landscape architect in America designed Highland Park around a series of parks and boulevards. The glorious setting attracted society architects and patrons with great taste, creating a neighborhood of refinement and beauty. Flippen Park, informally known as Versailles Park reflects the romance, grace and flowering abundance of Highland Park. Versailles Park subtly inspires and its serene beauty calms. Paths lead up to a splendid gazebo, a fountain flows in a long, lazy pool of water and the park is filled with azaleas and lush grass, inviting a stroll or frolicking.

Most Elegant Home in Vaquero

1861 Post Oak Place, Westlake, Texas

Vaquero Club Home Offered For Sale – Sold by Douglas Newby

The interiors of this 7,000 square foot home have been refinished with style and elegant materials. You will find an alabaster fireplace, amethyst sink and backsplash and other gem quality stone throughout the house and fixtures. Long slabs of very dramatic granite set off the kitchen, wet bar and service areas.

Wide plank hardwood floors combined with sweeping porches and verandas with long Texas views are reminiscent of the best Texas homes.

Walls of windows allow sunlight to stream across this entire Westlake, Vaquero home.

Besides the grand staircase there are two elevators that take you to the second floor. This floor includes the master bedroom, children’s rooms and guest rooms and a game room opening to a large balcony porch with spectacular views of the golf course. This stone home is sited along the golf course in a way that the golf course is seen as an endless greenbelt. You will enjoy the privacy and seclusion.

Preston Hollow Modern Home for Sale

10240 Gaywood Road, Dallas, Texas

Spectacular Preston Hollow Acreage and Value – Sold by Douglas Newby

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. The property is spread along 460 feet of a spring fed creek and small lake. Views of a 10 acre private garden across the creek enhance the tranquility and privacy of this site.

The incredible width of this estate property allows ample room for a tennis court adjacent to the 3,800 square foot Nick Glazbrook designed guest house. A large swimming pool, terraces, gardens, mature trees, rugged ravine, broad grass meanderings along the creek and small lake which relate visually to the beautiful garden views of the adjacent estate properties.

One of Dallas’ Most Important Modern Homes Designed in Last 25 Years

Architect Scott Lyons designed what is considered one of the most important and well built modern homes found in Dallas. This 9,902 square foot modern residence and 3,800 square foot guest house is a very private and aesthetically pleasing expression of an indigenous Texas style. It is a home of quality, built with extraordinary materials and engineering and has beautiful views of land, trees, a creek and a lake. It includes the primary residence, three-car garage and pool on 1.4 acres and a separate guest house on the adjoining 1.23 acres.

Renovated Midcentury Modern Home 5,000

11431 Saint Michaels Drive, Dallas, Texas

Jan Mar Home for Sale on .43 Acres in Jan Mar Neighborhood – Sold by Douglas Newby

Ideally located in the Jan Mar 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.

Midcentury Modern Home

3928 Wentwood Drive, Dallas, Texas

University Park Residence of Architect – Sold by Douglas Newby

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.

The family has agreed that I will be able to offer this home at the value of its 75 foot by 150 foot lot with a deed restriction that it cannot be torn down. We are in the last decade of an era where original owners are offering their 50 year old midcentury homes for sale. It is essential these homes remain as a reflection of an era and as the original examples of a style that is being vigorously revisited and appreciated through new construction and design.

Highland Park Homes For Sale

4545 Bordeaux Avenue, Dallas, Texas

Classic Highland Park Home For Sale
Spacious Lot on Bordeaux – Sold by Douglas Newby

Seldom will you find a full two-story, gracious Highland Park home with four bedrooms for under one million dollars. Here you have the opportunity to purchase just such a property, a Highland Park home with 3,000 sf, light-filled rooms, and a timeless design on a spacious lot.

Four bedroom Highland Park Home

You will find this historic four bedroom, three and one-half bathroom Highland Park home on Bordeaux in the middle of a long block of stately homes. The second floor master bedroom has wide opening to library and sitting room. The second, third and fourth bedrooms are also found on the second floor.

Renovated Midcentury Modern Reminiscent of Palm Springs

6931 Alpha Road, Dallas, Texas

Midcentury Modern Renovated Home on .67 Acres – Sold by Douglas Newby

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.

Modernity Meets Midcentury

The home’s travertine floors in the living room, dining room and hall are laid in 24 inch squares. Doors and windows have been raised to ceiling height. The Pozzi doors have kick locks and the windows open from the bottom to enhance natural ventilation. A sleek, wide fireplace and recessed art lighting create a sensuous atmosphere. The walls of windows provide dramatic views of the garden, courtyards and pool from different angles and perspectives.

Original Beverly Drive Home in Highland Park

4421 Beverly Drive, Dallas, Texas

On .255 Acres, 75 Foot Wide Lot – Sold by Douglas Newby

Modern award-winning architects Braxton Werner and Paul Field have designed the modern renovation of this original Beverly Drive home in Highland Park.  While the scale and exterior architecture is consistent with other homes on the block, the interior has been dramatically changed, reflecting the compatibility of modern with Mediterranean.

Renovated 4,213 Square Foot Home, Quarters, Pool, Covered Terrace and Garden

Here you will enjoy entertaining inside this elegant home or pool side with a garden shaded by mature trees around the perimeter.  The quarters above the two-car garage are also spacious and comfortable for guests.

Highland Park Renovated Home

Highland Park and Highland Park Village drew much of its architectural inspiration and Mediterranean architecture from Beverly Hills, California. In this original 1920s Highland Park estate home you see Beverly Hills reflected in both the Mediterranean architecture and the California modern approach to the complete renovation.

Bent Tree Modern Home

5629 Bent Tree Drive, Dallas, Texas

Architect Frank Welch Designed on 1.08 Acres – Sold by Douglas Newby

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.

An exterior of stacked white cubes creates a graceful composition of geometric shapes and an interior of voluminous spaces and an exterior of over 1,000 feet of wrap around verandahs, balconies, courtyards and elevated decks.

International Style Modern Home

5970 Westgrove Drive, Dallas, Texas

James Nagle Architect Design
Spectacular Home Offered at Land Value – Sold by Douglas Newby

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.

James Nagle, FAIA, designed this modern home on two acres in Bent Tree in 1976. The clean, sharp edged lines slice through its pastoral setting, with walls of windows and glass doors looking out over the vast lawns and the backdrop of a green belt. This International Style modern home is dramatic and elegant for entertaining and at the same time efficient, and with five bedrooms, suited for a large family. Sports courts, two pools, and a separate building used as an entertainment center furthers the recreational flexibility of this contemporary residence in Bent Tree.

White Rock Lake Real Estate

4311 West Lawther Drive, Dallas, Texas

White Rock Lake Home on 2.5 Acres – Sold by Douglas Newby

This charming White Rock Lake home on 2.5 acres is ideal for a small family or as a close-in second home. The 203 foot wide lot offers the best views of any site on the lake. This approximately 2,920 square foot two-bedroom home has large living and entertaining spaces. Also, the home has additional structures for guest quarters and a private office.

Majestic Setting on White Rock Lake

The wide rolling front lawn frames the lake. The seasonal flocks of aquatic birds join the sail boats floating across the horizon. Once you are high up on this land, or on the front porch or inside the home looking out a window, you will fully realize the beauty and tranquility of White Rock Lake and this residential setting. The deep expanse of lawn behind the house finishes with a tennis court, furthering the majestic estate feeling of this Lakewood home.

Dallas Midcentury Modern

5848 Colhurst Street, Dallas, Texas

Dallas 50’s Modern Style Home for Sale – Sold by Douglas Newby

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.

O’Neil Ford Designed Texas Modern

3514 Rock Creek Drive, Dallas, Texas

Turtle Creek Park Home – Sold by Douglas Newby

O’Neil Ford was brilliant when it came to selecting sites for the homes he designed. Here, O’Neil Ford selected the top of the hill in Turtle Creek Park, alongside Rock Creek. This site enjoyed splendid views of the forested Rock Creek as it makes its way down to join Turtle Creek.

Elevated rooms of multi-paned windows and doors

A person walks up to the front door of the 4,100 sf home and proceeds past the entry hall to the living room with three walls of glass. Because of the dramatic grade of the lot you are now essentially looking over the back yard and garden from a two-story elevation. The expansive, elevated terrace becomes a daily living space as it is accessible from the formal and informal living areas and kitchen.

Perfect Family Home

10160 Gaywood Road, Dallas, Texas

Hal Yoakum and John Astin Perkins Designed
Preston Hollow Home With Real Value 1.288 Acres – Sold by Douglas Newby

Here is the perfect family home: beautifully fenced property with landmark trees, enormous living areas, several family bedrooms, guest rooms, maid’s quarters and guest house, five garage bays, massive amounts of storage space, large pool with diving rock, generous hardscape and yard for children, many courtyards and gardens for the family.

Mediterranean Modern Home on .25 acres

3424 Cornell Avenue, Dallas, Texas

Highland Park Home – Sold by Douglas Newby

This modern interpretation of a Beverly Hills home expresses itself perfectly in Old Highland Park. Built in the last 12 years, the Mediterranean home was totally refurbished, stylistically enhanced and the modernity accentuated.

Highland Park Tranquility

A series of arched openings and courtyard with a fountain make the transition from the peaceful tree-lined block of Cornell to the formal two-story entrance hall.

Modern Elegance in Highland Park

The large mahogany framed sliding glass doors are part of the glazed walls found on both ends of the informal living room. In one direction your full view is of a side garden and play area for the children. In the other direction there is a full view of the terrace, gardens and pool. When entertaining with both of the wide glass doors open, the front garden, the living area, rear garden, pool and terrace all become one space.

Stylish for Entertaining, Perfect for a Family

The formal living room with fireplace has tall ceilings, expansive windows, hardwood floors and walls finished and lighting established for art. The large kitchen and breakfast room with views of the pool is warm, sleek and open to the informal area with tall ceilings and limestone floors. The formal dining room will accommodate elaborate dinner parties or family gatherings. A study serves as a personal retreat.

Preston Hollow Real Estate

9770 Audubon Place, Dallas, Texas

Dallas Estate Property on 1.04 Acres – Sold by Douglas Newby

Here is a 1.04 acre site that defines a perfect Preston Hollow setting. On the highest elevation of a secluded street, looking across a circle park that separates the surrounding multi-acre estate homes, this property has endless views of a green landscape and tall mature trees that recede in the distance with barely a glimpse of any other homes.

Edwardian Estate Home

9806 Inwood Road, Dallas, Texas

Preston Hollow 5.3 Acres – Sold by Douglas Newby

Here is a proper estate property. A splendid approach curves along a creek up to a magnificent home articulated in stone and brick, surrounded by wide manicured lawns and a wooded perimeter.

Larry Boerder, AIA, Designed

Other 14,000 square foot homes in Dallas have been built, but where do you find one that is private and gracious, removed from a road, and not in sight of other homes. In what other city within eight miles of an internationally recognized Arts District can you find such architectural and bucolic excellence.

Larry Boerder, defining great architecture in Dallas, pulled from the eclectic European vocabulary of the Edwardian estate homes to design this architectural master work. Grand rooms with tall arched windows overlook the gardens. A sumptuous mahogany library with mixed wood floors including burled walnut is breathtaking, elegant and inviting.

White Rock Lake Modern Home For Sale

9211 East Lake Highlands Drive, Dallas, Texas

Seattle Modern Home in The Peninsula Dallas Neighborhood – Sold by Douglas Newby

The most exciting sites emerging for modern homes in Dallas are on East Lake Highlands Drive that overlook White Rock Lake and the forest and bicycling paths of White Rock Lake Park. This is the location of the modern home at 9211 East Lake Highlands Drive designed by a Seattle architect in collaboration with Dallas designers and contractors.

The Most Exciting New Modern Home Neighborhood

Kessler Woods and Urban Reserve are successful modern home enclave developments, but East Lake Highlands Drive has spontaneously attracted modern homes and become the site of choice for award-winning architects who understand a great modern home needs a great site and the East Lake Highlands Drive site is spectacular.  At 9211 East Lake Highlands Drive the views from the home elevated high off the lake, either from the terrace and pool or through the interior windows, are of abundant nature punctuated by the intermittent streams of joyful cyclists riding around White Rock Lake.  East Lake Highlands Drive is a favorite neighborhood leg of the ride that provides natural and architectural delights.

Preston Hollow Classic Home

6536 Northwood Road, Dallas, Texas

Preston Hills Neighborhood – Sold by Douglas Newby

You will enjoy the stylish, open floor plan. A large kitchen with spacious butler’s pantry, full island, and granite countertops opens to the 19’ vaulted ceiling great room with a sleek offset wet bar, including refrigerated wine storage also finished with granite countertops. A fireplace is flanked with Shawn Kerr custom built-in 10 foot armoires. A wall of windows overlooks a rear garden and 30’ swimming pool with five sheer decent fountains. A silver mist flagstone patio, outdoor fireplace, gas grill hookup, and tree lighting add to the fully landscaped back yard that includes windmill palms, yuccas, azaleas, banana, fig ivy, hibiscus, birds of paradise, and mature trees.

The first floor master bedroom suite also enjoys views of the pool and garden. The master bathroom has custom frosted glass, double vanities, a jetted tub and walk-in shower with a bench. Formal and informal staircases take you to the second floor bedrooms, exercise room and true media room with electronics closet. Multiple attic spaces along with large closets provide much storage space.

Lionel Morrison Architect Designed Home

4331 Travis Street, Dallas, Texas – B

Town House Modern – Sold by Douglas Newby

“Before” images showing townhouse when it was first built. Please see 4331 Travis, Dallas, Texas, for current images and information.

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.

New England Style Estate Home

5138 Deloache Avenue, Dallas, Texas

Preston Hollow Real Estate – 1.4 Acres – Sold by Douglas Newby

This New England inspired Georgian style estate home is reminiscent of the finest early estate homes in Dallas. Classic lines, period moldings and graceful proportions of the formal rooms define an architecturally elegant home. Set on nearly one and one-half acres, you will enjoy the distant views of the immense lawn framed by the garden.

England style estate home

The warm comfort of this estate home extends to the commodious guest bedroom suite, and the informal rooms, including a proper library, a charming sun porch, large breakfast room, tasting room and wine cellar, and full finished basement for recreational use. Found on one of the finest estate streets in the Preston Hollow Neighborhoods, you will enjoy the timeless benefits of estate living in Dallas.

Bud Oglesby Architect Designed Home

3201 Armstrong Avenue, Dallas, Texas

Katy Trail/Knox Street/Turtle Creek Real Estate – Sold by Douglas Newby

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. The interior designer and lighting designer have reinterpreted this approximately 2,100 square foot space with the finest current lighting, hardware and materials.

Highland Park Real Estate

4318 Lorraine Avenue, Dallas, Texas

Lorraine – Sold by Douglas Newby

Found on an ample lot in the middle of the first section of Highland Park, this eclectic home’s majestic bearing comes from its placement high off the street on its elevated lot. A slate roof, large divided light windows and elegant design contribute to its pleasing presence.

Sympathetic additions allow a kitchen opening to a family room, a guest suite of master bedroom proportions and a balcony wrapping around two wings of the house overlooking the garden. Recent finishes and refinements give this 1936 home a current appeal.

Bill Booziotis Architect Designed

4673 Christopher Place, Dallas, Texas

Christopher Place Real Estate/Turtle Creek Real Estate – Sold by Douglas Newby

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.

Preston Hollow Modern Home Designed by Edward Durell Stone

5243 Park Lane, Dallas, Texas

Edward Durell Stone – Sold by Douglas Newby

The same architect who brought international modernism to New York, designed the New York Museum of Modern Art and important buildings around the world, designed his most famous house in Dallas in 1956.

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.

The open floor plan eliminates hallways in this 10,000 square foot home. The tall ceilings, walls of windows and glass doors celebrate light and the outside. Denby marble from Vermont, cut and polished in Italy connote elegance, the hand-carved arabesque wooden screens celebrate craftsmanship. The concrete pier and beam foundation reinforced with steel beams establish the quality of construction and renovation.

Courtyards create and protect outdoor space and provide the same sense of serenity on one acre as country estates on much more land. The peristyle extends views over vast amounts of landscaped land. This is the ultimate 1950s Mid-Century Modern home; a celebration of the clean edge of the machine and the soft hand of the artist. Please contact me, Douglas Newby, at 214.522.1000 if you are interested in purchasing or selling a significant home.

Greenway Parks Real Estate, Greenway Parks Neighborhood

5569 Nakoma Drive, Dallas, Texas

Dallas Mid-Century Modern Home – Sold by Douglas Newby

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. The floor plan is open with walls of windows and glazed openings exploiting the secluded green vistas. The open tread staircase is juxtaposed with a brick wall, steel struts and railing, and soaring glass. The extensive renovation celebrates the style and setting of this architect designed home. Here is a home that reflects a great neighborhood, value, and design.

Mediterranean Estate Home on 2.37 Acres

4023 Cochran Chapel Road, Dallas, Texas

Bluffview Real Estate – Sold by Douglas Newby

On a private street of estate and architect designed homes is this majestic Mediterranean home on 2.37 acres. Removed from the street, placed on the crest of a hill, landscape architects David Rolston and Robert Bellamy have created an environment accentuating the home and the tranquility of the site. This over 7,000 square foot residence, in every direction, overlooks beautiful landscaped gardens – formal gardens, informal gardens, cascading koi ponds, streams, and vast manicured lawns. You will quickly recognize the distinction of this estate property.

Place des Vosges – Turtle Creek Neighborhood

3901 Turtle Creek Boulevard #1, Dallas, Texas

Turtle Creek Real Estate – Sold by Douglas Newby

Number One, Place des Vosges is centered on a green island surrounded by the sophisticated and refined residences of prestigious Place des Vosges – the most elegant neighborhood in Turtle Creek.

Highland Park Real Estate

3404 Harvard Avenue, Dallas, Texas

Highland Park Modern – Sold by Douglas Newby

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.

Classic Highland Park Home

4504 Arcady Avenue, Dallas, Texas

Highland Park Real Estate – Sold by Douglas Newby

Designed by architect, Wade H. Klamberg in 1937, this classic Highland Park home resembles an Adams eclectic style with flourishes of carved detail reflecting the era. A center hall opens to the formal living room with 9 foot ceilings and floor to ceiling windows and a large informal living room opens to a courtyard that leads to the pool and cabana.

Turtle Creek Real Estate

3818 Turtle Creek Drive, Dallas, Texas

Turtle Creek Drive on .377 Acres – Sold by Douglas Newby

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.

Second and third story windows and protected balconies provide views of downtown, Turtle Creek and the surrounding forest.

Turtle Creek Real Estate, Turtle Creek Park, Dallas

3525 Arrowhead Drive, Dallas, Texas

Elegant 1925 Estate Home – Sold by Douglas Newby

This elegant and refined home is hidden in prestigious and serene Turtle Creek Park. Turtle Creek meanders along the back of the one-acre site and Rock Creek winds its way through the side of this private and wooded property. This elegant and refined home is hidden in prestigious and serene Turtle Creek Park.

Turtle Creek meanders along the back of the one-acre site and Rock Creek winds its way through the side of this private and wooded property. The rooms in this 5,000 square foot home are arranged to capture the view of the topography, creeks and adjacent acreage of forested land. Here you will enjoy one of Dallas’ great estate homes from the 1920s. Please contact me, Douglas Newby, at 214.522.1000 if you are interested in this home or another Dallas Featured Listing.

University Park Real Estate

6009 Saint Andrews Drive, Dallas, Texas

St Andrews Estate Home – Sold by Douglas Newby

Here in University Park, across from the Dallas Country Club, you will find a traditional setting and a contemporary and stylish home. You will enjoy the .43 acre site framed by towering trees and with endless views of green. While the sense of place is serene, the sense of design is dynamic.

Parker Real Estate, Parker Texas

5408 Gregory Lane, Parker, Texas

Texas Horse Property – Sold by Douglas Newby

In Dallas’ highest rated suburb you will find a well-conceived home architecturally suited to its environment, reflecting style, quality and exquisite finishes. How often do you see 5.6 acres of rolling pastures with a sophisticated home in a beautiful setting found in a community of only 800 properties?

Howard Meyer Architect Designed Home on 2 Acres

4101 Cochran Chapel Road, Dallas, Texas

Cochran Chapel Real Estate – Sold by Douglas Newby

Howard Meyer is best known for his very modern work at the mid-century. Also recognized in the AIA Guide to Dallas Architecture and by architectural historians is his splendid design of eclectic homes built in the 1930s. Located high on the hillside of Cochran Chapel is his finest Colonial Revival home in Dallas. Built in 1938, this architecturally significant home has an asymmetrical facade with a gabled roof, side wings, six and eight panel double hung sashes and a bay window reflecting both the style and this period of Colonial Revival architecture.

Stone paths and a beautiful canopy of trees add to the charm of this important residence. This home, differing in design from contemporary Howard Meyer homes, shares the graceful proportions and the compulsive attention to construction – the magic of Howard Meyer’s works.

Sophisticated Preston Hollow Home

5914 Desco Drive, Dallas, Texas

Original Preston Hollow Neighborhood

This extraordinary home of architectural distinction is set back and turned away from the street, wrapping around a gracious courtyard garden, providing seclusion, security and serenity.

The highest quality renovation designed by architect Robbie Fusch emphasizes the views of the garden from the living room, extensive formal library, large master bedroom and verandahs. Elegant and European in scale are the formal entrance hall, receiving room and the series of tall pairs of divided light doors and transoms. The detailing is exquisite and the finish without flaw. Guest bedrooms on the second floor accommodate guests or returning family members.

Northern Hills Real Estate

3616 Armstrong Avenue, Dallas, Texas

Featured Dallas Modern Home – Sold by Douglas Newby

This home on Armstrong represents one of the finest properties found in Northern Hills. It is strong architecturally and the quality of construction and renovation is superior. You will not find a kitchen with a more exciting, elegant and convenient design in a home under $1 million. Three sinks and a water source over the Viking stove just begin to tell the story of this kitchen out of Chicago by Rutt. The staircase in the front entrance hall creates a strong vertical element in this home. High ceilings and banks of tall windows and sunrooms surrounded by vertical windows emphasize the value of this residence.

Preston Hollow Real Estate

10740 Saint Michaels Drive, Dallas, Texas

Saint Michael’s Drive – Sold by Douglas Newby

Architect Bob James, FAIA, designed this AIA award-winning home to blend into the Brookshire Park 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.

As you pass through the front facade of translucent glass that provides privacy from the street, you discover a splendid and open floor plan with expansive walls with a grid of horizontal windows separating the interior from the woods and rugged terrain of Royal Branch Creek and the park. The ambiguity of the interior and exterior space is further enhanced by the generous use of exterior materials within the home – exposed concrete floors, clear maple cabinetry and a subtle blend of texture, color and shadows.

Preston Hollow Historic Home

5931 Desco Drive, Dallas, Texas

Original Preston Hollow Estate – Sold by Douglas Newby

When we think about the graciousness of Preston Hollow, we picture an original estate home built on many acres in the 1930s. This Desco Estate quickly became a landmark in El Parado, the earliest addition of Preston Hollow. This 1936 neoclassical estate home, perfectly placed on its present two acres with mature trees arching over its graceful and stately architecture, remains a Preston Hollow landmark.

You will enjoy the expansive veranda before you proceed through the deep arched entrance to the formal hall. From here you will find the large, classically proportioned spaces of the living room, dining room, butler’s pantry, library, and sunroom that you would anticipate in a historic home. Sympathetically added is a large family room, an attached cabana and a separate guest house. On the second floor you will find four bedrooms, including an elaborate master bedroom suite.

Beverly Drive Home

4316 Beverly Drive, Dallas, Texas

Highland Park Real Estate, Highland Park, Dallas – Sold by Douglas Newby

When you think of Highland Park, you think of Beverly Drive and the original gracious homes from the 1920s sited on wide lots. Here, you have a Beverly Drive home designed in 1928 on .26 acres, with high ceilings, original detailing and the elegance you expect in Highland Park.

The recent renovation accentuates the natural light and open rooms of this 4,190 square foot home. Please contact me, Douglas Newby, at 214.522.1000 if you are interested in purchasing or selling a significant home.

Preston Hollow Real Estate

5440 North Dentwood Drive, Dallas, Texas

Dentwood – Sold by Douglas Newby

This Preston Hollow estate home was designed by Robbie Fusch on an acre lot that is cradled by the creek that meanders through the neighborhood. This delightful home is both formal and open, allowing the homeowners full enjoyment of the home and its surroundings.

Lionel Morrison, FAIA, Designed Modern Home

3509 Springbrook Street, Dallas, Texas

Modern Attached Single-Family in Northern Heights by Katy Trail – Sold by Douglas Newby

Northern Heights is the coolest location for a modern residence as it is just a few doors down from the Katy Trail and just down the trail to the restaurants and shops on Knox Street in one direction and West Village in the other direction.

Katy Trail Home Represents Privacy, Vibrancy, and Value of Northern Heights

You will enjoy the tranquility of this predominantly single-family neighborhood. There is very little traffic in Northern Hills and Northern Heights since the neighborhoods are bordered by Highland Park on two sides, the Katy Trail on one side, and Turtle Creek Park on the other boundary.  While secluded from traffic, on a tree-lined street this modern home is close to the most vibrant city life of Dallas and the parks and creeks of Highland Park.

Greenway Parks Real Estate

5373 Wenonah Drive, Dallas, Texas – Original Home

Fooshee and Cheek Designed Home on .84 acres – Sold by Douglas Newby

“Before” exterior images showing home prior to renovation.  Please see 5373 Wenonah, Dallas, Texas for current images and information.

In 1955 architects Marion Fooshee and James Cheek designed this graceful home in the heart of Greenway Parks. It is placed on the largest lot in the neighborhood and with views of the gently curving streets, triangle parks, greenways, the boulevard and fountain. This architect designed home has been unaltered for almost 50 years. It is an important contributing structure to the mosaic of architectural styles and shapes that perpetuate the charm and appeal of Dallas’ most successful 20th century neighborhood. Here is the finest opportunity to renovate and redefine an architecturally significant home in Greenway Parks.

Munger Place Historic Home For Sale

4950 Victor Street, Dallas, Texas

Historic Home in Heart of Historic District – Sold by Douglas Newby

In the heart of Munger Place, this 100-year-old home with a wrap-around porch and porte-cochere conveys all of the aesthetic attributes that propelled Munger Place as the finest residence park in the Southland when it was built and then as the first single-family historic district in Dallas.

Finest Original Detail in Munger Place

It is rare that the original craftsmanship, moldings, beams, and trim of a home survive 100 years and they have in this renovated home.  The wood floors, wide passageways, and tall ceilings celebrate the original character of the home and its innate architectural modernity and its style was inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Lot Next Door is Zoned for a Historic Single-Family Home

The adjacent Munger Place lot will be sold and the buyer is required to build a historic looking home with the height and setbacks of the original deed restrictions of the neighborhood.  While many neighborhoods are disrupted by large or unsightly homes being built, you are protected by the Munger Place historic ordinance.

Frank Welch Designed Modern Home

3822 Turtle Creek Drive, Dallas, Texas

Turtle Creek Park Inspiration

This inspired modern home designed by architect Frank Welch expresses the best in a modern home. You will find it on an extraordinary site, in a fabulous neighborhood (Turtle Creek Park), and in a vibrant city (Dallas).

Embedded in a rugged natural environment, designed by architect Frank Welch, this modern home is embraced by trees and surrounded by the most enticing vibrancy of Dallas. The Katy Trail is right behind the home, connecting you to SMU, White Rock Lake, Trinity Groves and beyond. Turtle Creek, across the historic stone bridge at the end of the private drive, leads you through Highland Park in one direction and onto the Arts District in another. The best restaurants and shops are a stroll away.

Glen Abbey Modern Home

40 Braewood Place, Dallas, Texas

Contemporary Home in Glen Abbey Neighborhood
Zillow Estimate: $5,326,694 Value
DCAD Value: $4,751,960

Architect Graham Greene of Oglesby•Greene Architects, recipient of the Dallas Chapter AIA 2010 Firm of the Year Award, designed this award-winning home. This home at 40 Braewood Place also received the 2010 AIA Interior Architecture Design Award.

Here is a home that looks traditional as it almost disappears from the street, but then as you walk next to a gurgling stream, down along the stone entrance path, under the canopy of a trellis and approach the front door, the blended nature of this magnificent modern home and dramatic site is revealed.

Still outside the front door, you can look through a glass-walled corridor into a garden, sweeping lawn and mature trees and see the gurgling stream reappear from under the entrance corridor, past a Koi pond, and flowing down a natural rock formation in a waterfall on its way to White Rock Creek below the bluff.

Contemporary Dallas Home Designed by Graham Greene

Munger Place Home Built in 2016

4946 Victor Street, Dallas, Texas

Sold by Douglas Newby

Horizontal banks of tall double-hung windows across the front of the home allow natural light to illuminate the four-bedroom, three and one-half bath Munger Place Historic District home. The front porch roof shields the home from the harsh midday sun. The wide, three-foot eaves that are another architectural signature of Munger Place further protect the interior from direct afternoon sun. The wide and deep front porch contributes to the architectural continuity of the historic district and provides another living space for family or another space to entertain visiting friends or neighbors.

A Home in the Sweet Spot of the Arts District

1717 Arts Plaza #2005, Dallas, Texas

Lionel Morrison-Designed Residence – Sold by Douglas Newby

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. This residence at #2005 has the best site, the sweet spot within One Arts Plaza.

Bespoke Residence in Architect-Designed Building is Rarity

Since Dallas is currently the strongest city in the country, and downtown Dallas is flourishing, it is no wonder hundreds of similar expensive high-rise apartment units are being built. While not quite a commodity, if you do not buy one of these new ubiquitous units, you can always get another similar one nearby. However, this bespoke residence at #2005 One Arts offers a singular opportunity.

Singular Arts District Perfection

First, there are only three one-bedroom residences that face the Arts District at 1717 One Arts Plaza.

Second, you will have the only one-bedroom residence with an enhanced floor plan. Also, you will have the perfectly sited apartment with a deep balcony terrace right next to the iconic protruding square of the exterior design, centered in the top half of the building, blocking the wind when you are sitting on the terrace and enjoying the outdoor fireplace.

University Park Home on .25 Acres

3819 McFarlin Boulevard, Dallas, Texas

Charles Dilbeck Designed Residence

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. Having the best work of Charles Dilbeck and David Williams side by side allows these architectural landmarks to define this period of Dallas and the architectural legacy of each other. Charles Dilbeck introduced indigenous Texas design and materials to Dallas architecture, the same years as David Williams.

Charles Dilbeck has often been characterized as Dallas’ most beloved architect for his design that combines an eccentric interpretation of European eclecticism with the artisanship, honest materials, and straight forward design of Texas modern. This University Park home captures these Dilbeck qualities and expresses them in a profound and compelling way. The entry hall is gracious. The formal rooms are spacious. The large kitchen with a fireplace opens to an expansive informal room lined with windows overlooking the garden.