Highland Park
Best Neighborhoods of Highland Park Are Illuminated
Explore The Best Neighborhoods, Top Homes, and History of Highland Park
Highland Park was developed at the beginning of the 20th century, an era of Dallas when prestigious and opulent planned developments were being created. It is not an accident that Highland Park is one of the most beautiful townships in the country.
In this Highland Park neighborhood section you will discover the 20 best Highland Park neighborhoods. In addition you will see a few featured Highland Park homes to provide a sense of the range of homes you will find in these neighborhoods comprising one of the finest and most prestigious townships in the country. And Highland Park is only 2.5 miles from the City of Dallas Arts District.
Once you have had a chance to review these 20 distinct Highland Park neighborhoods, you will see in these neighborhoods new listings of homes that just came on the market in MLS along with the homes with recent MLS status changes. These new listings are followed by every Highland Park home for sale in MLS. You also will see every MLS home for sale mapped in Highland Park. And to give you a better understanding of the Highland Park market, you will see the Highland Park homes in MLS that have previously sold.
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Discover Architect Designed Homes for Sale in MLS in Highland Park
If you are especially interested in architect-designed homes for sale in Highland Park, we have set up a page that allows you to search for Highland Park homes for sale that are designed by an architect who is identified.
Discover Modern Homes for Sale in MLS in Highland Park
If you are particularly interested in modern homes for sale in Highland Park, we have created a search in which you can pull up just modern homes in MLS for sale in Highland Park. And to help give you a sense of the market and the evolving inventory, we have featured chronologically the Highland Park homes in MLS that have sold and their listing price.
An Insider’s Look at the Neighborhoods, Homes, and History of Highland Park
There is much to know about Highland Park beyond just the homes offered for sale and that have sold. This section concludes with thoughts on the history of Highland Park, Highland Park videos, places and attributes that capture the hearts of Highland Park homeowners and visitors alike. Douglas Newby will enjoy speaking to you personally about Highland Park and helping you find or sell a home.
Featured Homes in Highland Park
4400 Belfort Place Will Be the Finest Highland Park Home to Come on the Market (Not Yet on Market)
This Was the Final One Acre Lot in Highland Park in Which to Build a New Home
Since 4400 Belfort Place was the last one-acre lot that did not already have a very large home on it or have a historically significant home on it with millions of dollars invested in renovation, it was important that the Highland Park home built here was the best. When you see this architecturally significant home, you will agree that it is spectacular.
Regardless of the Year, A New Highland Park Home of this Quality Previously Has Not Come on the Market
Regardless of the year, none of us have previously seen in Highland Park a new home that has come on the market with the quality and elegance of this Highland Park inspired Spanish Colonial Revival style home. In fact, in the last several years, there has not been a home of any age in Highland Park on an acre of land designed by a nationally known architect that has come on the market with the quality or appeal of the new home being built at 4400 Belfort Place. This home reaffirms the architectural excellence of Highland Park. Architect Larry Boerder has designed this Spanish Colonial style home with Mediterranean and Italianate detail to reflect the best of Highland Park and to reflect this timeless architectural style into the future.
Most Iconic Home in Highland Park Torn Down at 4101 Beverly Drive – August 21, 2024
Cox Mansion Becomes Beal Rubble
4101 Beverly Drive, Dallas, Texas – Old Highland Park Historically Significant Home
The home at 4101 Beverly designed in 1912 expresses the exuberant grandeur of Beaux-Arts mansions. 4101 Beverly is still the centerpiece of Highland Park, across from the Country Club on Beverly and Preston. Italianate influence is seen in the colonnaded second story porch and entry and the flat roof lined with balustrades.
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.
Douglas Newby Sold Architect Mark Lemmon’s Own Home in Highland Park – 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.”
If You are Interested in Highland Park, You Will be Interested in Working with Douglas Newby
When you are looking for a historic original architect-designed estate home on a large lot, a Texas Modern home designed by a prominent architect, an award-winning midcentury designed home, a transitional modern home, or a modern home designed by an international architect, Douglas Newby will contribute to your understanding of the rich inventory of homes and opportunities in Highland Park, Dallas. As a buyer, the more you understand the total universe and inventory of homes in Highland Park, and understand the subtleties of the market street by street, the more advantageous your purchase. When we represent you as a buyer’s broker we will review the entire inventory of homes in Highland Park
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Best Highland Park Neighborhoods
Old Highland Park Neighborhood
This is one of our client’s favorite neighborhoods. Old Highland Park is where Highland Park started and is bounded by Mockingbird Lane on the north, Airline and the Katy Trail on the east, Armstrong on the south, and Preston Road on the west. There is still a preponderance of original and historic homes. Here you will also see the mapped MLS homes for sale in each specific neighborhood of Old Highland Park.
Katy Trail Corridor of Old Highland Park Neighborhood
First Section of Old Highland Park Neighborhood
Second Section of Old Highland Park Neighborhood
Turtle Creek Acreage of Old Highland Park Neighborhood
Acreage Section of Old Highland Park Neighborhood
Third Section of Old Highland Park Neighborhood
Fourth Section of Old Highland Park Neighborhood
Hackberry Creek Acreage of Old Highland Park Neighborhood
Highland Park West of Preston Neighborhood
As in most communities, the development grows north and west. In 1924 the west addition of Highland Park was developed including many homes that were even grander and architecturally more substantial. There are still original homes found from the 30s and 40s, but there is a greater sense of redevelopment. Here you will also see the mapped MLS homes for sale for each specific neighborhood of Highland Park West of Preston.
First Section of Highland Park Neighborhood West of Preston Neighborhood
Second Section of Highland Park Neighborhood West of Preston Neighborhood
Third Section of Highland Park Neighborhood West of Preston Neighborhood
Fourth Section of Highland Park Neighborhood West of Preston Neighborhood
Fifth Section of Highland Park Neighborhood West of Preston Neighborhood
Sixth Section of Highland Park Neighborhood West of Preston Neighborhood
West Park in Highland Park Neighborhood West of Preston Neighborhood
Highland Park North of Mockingbird Neighborhood
This neighborhood is on the University Park side of Mockingbird Lane, but still feels very much part of Highland Park. Here you will also see the mapped MLS homes for sale for each specific neighborhood of Highland Park North of Mockingbird.
Mount Vernon Neighborhood
Preston Place 1 Neighborhood
West Highland Park Neighborhood
This 100 acre neighborhood of 1940s and 1950s houses is generally intact. The neighborhood receives all of the benefits of Highland Park with the exception of the Highland Park Independent School District. This neighborhood falls into the Dallas Independent School District. As a result, couples and individuals without children living at home are less inclined to tear down these small, but stylish homes to build something larger. You will also see MLS Homes for sale mapped in West Highland Park neighborhood.
Mapped Highland Park Homes for Sale in MLS
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Today’s New Highland Park Listings and MLS Status Changes
Find today’s new listings and the total number of Highland Park homes for sale in MLS. Today we have a total of 0 new listings and a total of 50 homes for sale listed in Highland Park neighborhood.
Award-winning Realtor Douglas Newby knows the homes in Highland Park and understands the nuance of this real estate market.
Favorite Highland Park Neighborhood Videos
Highland Park prices are not speculative because Highland Park buyers have the highest incomes and net worth in relationship to the price of the homes they are buying. A small pool of homes available with the distinct advantages of Highland Park not replicable in other parts of Dallas or the country make Highland Park an attractive investment and place for a home.
-Douglas Newby
Life in Highland Park
Park House Lunch with John Reoch
Park House in Highland Park Village is a convenient spot for lunch halfway between the estate area of Highland Park and Bluffview.
SMU is Victorious After 40 Years
SMU Celebrates Touchdown with Peruna Running Across the Field
All of Dallas, football fans and non-football fans, SMU Alumni, and non-SMU Alumni are excited about SMU being nationally ranked and going to the playoffs. Standing by the sideline at the Cal game, I saw SMU cinch a position in the NCAA football playoffs. SMU has once again become Dallas’ team.
Paul Rogers SMU’s Faculty Athletic Representative Seen on Sideline of SMU Game
SMU Quarterback Kevin Jennings Shows Nimble Footwork
SMU Game Against California Golden Bears
Fashion in Highland Park Village
Beverly Drive Book Club
Beverly Drive Book Club is the oldest book club in Dallas. A speaker presents one book a month which includes vigorous questions, great insights and delightful interaction of neighbors who live on Beverly Drive. Meeting with the Beverly Drive Book Club was great fun, and I came away with many additional insights.
Highland Park at Christmas
Estate Sale is Last Step of Historic Home Sold and Preserved
A Highland Park estate sale is always popular, especially if it is an estate sale of prominent owners like these at 3925 Potomac Avenue. This is a Hal Thomson designed home that he created for his own family. The sellers lived in the home for 45 years! Douglas Newby successfully sold this home with preservation deed restrictions that prevents it from being torn down.
Visiting Studio of Architect Wilson Fuqua
Wilson Fuqua is best known for the renovation and preservation design he has done on many of the most important historic and architecturally significant homes in Highland Park. He has also designed over 25 new homes in the finest neighborhoods of Dallas. It is always a treat to visit with Wilson about Dallas, Highland Park, architecture or life in general. He is a great asset to Dallas, and today it was fun to see him work, creating space within the four walls of the original structure that I did not think was possible.
Cafe Pacific at Highland Park Village
Café Pacific is a time-honored restaurant in Highland Park Village owned by Highland Park homeowner Jack Knox, who has a gorgeous, architect-designed historic home located on Armstrong Parkway. Café Pacific is imbued with civility, fun and unparalleled service and food—all qualities of Highland Park. Highland Park Village, owned by Highland Park homeowners, has restaurants for all occasions and moods, made even better by the patronage of Highland Park residents. And what better atmosphere for Christmas than several hundred thousand twinkling white lights installed at Highland Park Village for the holidays, with shops that would be the envy of Madison Avenue or Rodeo Drive.
Highland Park Homeowner Christy Nance Enjoys Cafe Pacific Patio
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Preservation Victory
Dallas has had sad moments but many preservation victories. Preservation writer Karen Eubank called 3925 Potomac that Hal Thomson designed for his family, “the most important home in Highland Park.” It will be preserved! The owners of 44 years, Dan and Cookie Owen, have been longtime lovers of architecture, Highland Park, Hal Thomson and preservation. Cookie grew up in a Highland Park Hal Thomson home and loved sharing her and Dan’s Potomac home with friends. Their 3,000 sf home, placed on one of the most beautiful .3-acre sites in Highland Park with a view of Turtle Creek and its backdrop of Dallas Country Club golf course, made it a target of lot buyers. Recognizing this, Dan Owen, as a tribute to his late wife Cookie and reflecting his own appreciation of architecture and history, adopted a strategy to preserve the home. Dan retained me to sell the home with a preservation front facade deed restriction to ensure it would not be torn down. Dan knew lot buyers only need lot dimensions to quickly buy a lot and home buyers need more information. Dan facilitated buyers understanding the home. A current survey was completed to clarify setbacks for additions. Floor plans were drawn to illustrate the glamorous current floor plan and proportions. Architect Wilson Fuqua, known for design work on Hal Thomson and other Highland Park homes, created several iterations of proposed plans. With Wilson’s inspired plans, buyers could easily begin visualizing configurations for themselves.
Most encouraging was a pool of potential buyers that emerged, from young couples to empty nesters, from historic homeowners to those just realizing historic homes were more elegant than new homes, from those in the market to those who were not even in the market. There is a much bigger demand for historic homes in Dallas than anyone realizes—they just need a chance to buy one. Dan Owen selling his home with a facade restriction was a gift to Highland Park and Dallas. Architecture is our public art and our history. Thank you, Dan!
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Highland Park Inspiration
Once every several years there might be a home built in Highland Park inspired by its original architecture and history and that also conveys the prominence of Highland Park. On a one-acre site framed by Armstrong Parkway and Belfort Place, the timeless grace of this perfectly executed Spanish Colonial Revival style home reflects and perpetuates the best of Highland Park. Blair Pogue, the developer of this home with roots in Highland Park, understands the aesthetics, quality and refinement a homeowner desires in a substantial Highland Park home that still relates to the neighborhood.
Architect Larry Boerder, who has designed 400 homes in the Park Cities, is intimately acquainted with the architectural nuance and notes of the community. He has also designed some of the most significant homes in Highland Park propelling him to design this architecturally significant home. Highland Park Interior designer Margaret Chambers has frequently collaborated on the design of the finest estate homes allowing her to further enhance the architecture of this home with her good eye and deft approach. Harold Leidner is Dallas’ preeminent estate home landscape architect and contributes another integral layer of excellence and appeal. The finest craftsmen and artisans bring to life the hundreds of pages of architectural details and the subliminal magic of the home.
I am excited to be involved with this home destined to become a Highland Park landmark. It is thrilling to see it emerge and evolve. In the last several years there has been no other new home that has come on the market with this level of elegance. This spring I will be offering this home for sale that provides an alternative to a homebuyer trying to find a one-acre lot in Highland Park and then waiting three years for the design and construction of a home while forced to live somewhere temporarily. Association with a project that contributes in an inspired way to the architectural landscape of Highland Park is the greatest reward.
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Aesthetic Eye
On the last week of Jeremy Strick’s 15 years of successful leadership as the Director of the Nasher Sculpture Center, we went to lunch and discussed his approach to the Nasher. I have always loved the exhibitions at the Nasher while Jeremy was the Director. Credit must also be given to the Jed Morse, Chief Curator. These exhibits were all very different and I never stopped to think what was their common denominator. At lunch I discovered that any potential exhibition first had to pass through two filters. The work had to have a point of view and the work had to be visually appealing. This might sound obvious. Modern art is known for having an edgy point of view, and art is of course stimulating and appealing. But how often has one gone to a modern art exhibit and you get the point the artist is making but aesthetically the work is lacking? Jeremy Strick’s aesthetic eye was drawn to powerful pieces that were presented as more than a concept; they were presented as art.
A protestor can shout a point of view, but an orator can entice and compel with radical ideas eloquently presented. I looked back at just how diverse the Nasher exhibitions were. One saw hard edges, soft edges, some were humorous, some were stern, subtle or exaggerated. However, they were all like visual oratory – graceful and lyrical as they presented a strong point of view.
While Jeremy Strick did not announce his plans for the future outside of traveling to Europe and both coasts this summer, I presume he will be advising on art in some capacity. What a good baseline for any collection – think like Jeremy Strick. Does the piece you are considering have a point of view and is it visually appealing? What a good baseline for any architecturally significant home – does it have an architectural point of view and is it appealing to live in?
Thank you, Jeremy, for what you added to Dallas and to my personal enjoyment and understanding of art.
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History of Highland Park
Highland Park was developed at the beginning of the 20th century, an era of Dallas when prestigious and opulent planned developments were being created.
Highland Park Was Planned To Be The Most Beautiful Neighborhood In Dallas
It is not an accident that Highland Park is one of the most beautiful townships in the country. In 1905 the Munger brothers designed their beautiful residence park in keeping with the City Beautiful movement of grand boulevards and precise grids of tree-lined streets. In 1909 John Armstrong and his sons-in-law, Edgar Flippin and Hugh Prather, Sr. purchased 1,326 acres and planned Highland Park in the spirit of Frederick Law Olmsted’s Central Park in New York. They hired Wilbur David Cook, the planner of Beverly Hills, California, to recreate his magic in this new development of meandering streets, creeks, tributaries and parks. George Kessler, who was responsible for Dallas’ first great master land plan in 1911, including greenbelts along Turtle Creek, was also retained to assist with the planning of Highland Park. Twenty percent of Highland Park was dedicated to parks.
Highland Park Being Overlooked by Dallas Now Has the World Looking at Highland Park
Regardless of John Armstrong’s plans for Highland Park, this development was still considered too outside the perimeter of Dallas to be annexed into the city of Dallas. This early Dallas rejection has resulted in the Highland Park Township providing the best of two worlds. It is surrounded by the city of Dallas on three sides and connected to the city of Dallas Arts District, two and a half miles away, by creeks, trails and transportation arteries. These creeks, trails and roads also insulate Highland Park from the city of Dallas, providing Highland Park unprecedented safety, security and beautiful parks connecting its neighborhoods. With its own police and fire departments and public school system, Highland Park enjoys the attributes and amenities of one of the finest suburbs in the country while still enjoying the proximity and vibrancy of the city. Is it any wonder one might find four or five billionaires living on a single block with children joyfully riding their bikes down the street.
Turtle Creek Runs Through Highland Park
Turtle Creek runs through the middle of Highland Park, filling a visitor with awe at the sight of the azaleas and grand homes along the parks and linear lakes created from Turtle Creek. Hackberry Creek is a rugged tributary that winds through natural limestone banks, where parks and tennis courts have been carved. It is no wonder that Dallas’ best architects did much of their work in this setting creating eclectic homes of Mediterranean, English, French and neoclassical styles. Old homes continue to be both restored and torn down often for larger homes in the same style. Highland Park is protected by its own fire department and educates its children within its own school district. Mortgages on many multi-million dollar homes are less than the cost of sending their children to private schools for a similar education.
Third Generation Highland Park Residents and Those New to Texas Love Highland Park
Whether you are a third generation Highland Park resident or are considering moving to this architecturally significant community we hope you will enjoy these photographs and further acquainting yourself with some of the Highland Park homes found in the different sections, additions and neighborhoods of this community.
Thank you, thank you, thank you! Thank you for guiding us through such a great buying and selling experience…But most of all, thank you for becoming such good friends!
All our best,
-Scott and Tracy Bundy
Highland Park Home Seller and Home Buyer
Why Highland Park Captures the Imagination
Highland Park is beautiful and has magnificent homes, but it is much, much more. Real estate broker Douglas Newby can personally bring keen insight to why Dallas’ Highland Park captures the imagination of first-time visitors to Highland Park and continues to thrill longtime residents of Highland Park.
The Highland Park Market is More than Homes for Sale in MLS
To understand the Highland Park real estate market, you should know the history of Highland Park, the development of the township of Highland Park and its neighborhoods, the cycles of renovation and new construction, and how Highland Park prices rise and fall in relationship to other prestigious Dallas neighborhoods. Douglas Newby specializes in architecturally significant homes and understands architecturally significant homes as a combination of great sites, great locations, great architects, and the positive evolution of specific neighborhoods and their future potential.
Highland Park Is Safe
How many neighborhoods located two miles from a major downtown central business district are considered safe? Here, in Dallas, Highland Park is where prominent families feel comfortable with their children playing in the front yards or riding their bikes on the sidewalk.
Highland Park Police Are Almost Like a Private Security Force
The homeowners of Highland Park, Dallas almost feel as if they have a private security service when they are served by the Highland Park Police. Many of the wealthiest, highest profile residents of Dallas live in Highland Park where they enjoy walking through the neighborhood and to its beautiful parks, swimming pool nestled next to a creek and surrounded by trees, tennis courts in a bucolic setting, the Dallas Country Club and Highland Park Village.
Highland Park Sense of Community
This Highland Park sense of community continues through the year. Whether it is filling the stadium to cheer the State Champion Highland Park High School football team or seeing one other at neighborhood shops and restaurants.
Sold MLS Homes in Highland Park
There are only approximately 2,500 homes in Highland Park. However, there is a wide range of prices, with some Highland Park Dallas homes costing $100 million and some homes in Highland Park Dallas costing just over $1 million. This allows homeowners who represent a diverse range of ages and wealth to live in this prestigious Highland Park community. Regardless of price, you will enjoy refined Organic Urbanism at its best.
Highland Park Homeowners Appreciate Douglas Newby
Thank you, thank you, thank you! Thank you for guiding us through such a great buying and selling experience…But most of all, thank you for becoming such good friends!
Scott and Tracy Bundy
Highland Park Home Seller and Home Buyer
Jim and I can’t begin to thank you enough or all of your efforts and infinite patience in helping us finally find a home. We are so appreciative and excited.
Jacqueline & Jim Deeken
Highland Park Homeowner
