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.


Inspired Architect Designed New Home in Highland Park

Architect Larry Boerder created an architectural rendering for his vision of how his architecturally significant home at 4400 Belfort Place would look when the construction was finished.
At 4400 Belfort Place, architect Larry Boerder designed an architecturally significant Spanish Colonial Revival estate home with Mediterranean detail on a nearly one-acre site. One enjoys seeing the subtle symmetry and balanced proportions delineated for different functions. Also, one enjoys the cut and carved stone ornamental detail punctuating the hand-troweled hard plaster over masonry walls.

4400 Belfort Place Not Yet On Market

In the last several years there has not been a new home 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 4400 Belfort Place. It confirms 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 sophisticated buyers with resources have to find a lot to purchase and somewhere to live temporarily for three years while they have a new home designed and built. The home at 4400 Belfort Place has the quality and precision of a bespoke residence. It is placed on one of the finest sites in Highland Park and this architecturally significant home at 4400 Belfort Place will be available to purchase this spring when it is completed.

You will love the prominence and privacy of this site, be enthralled with the design and aesthetics of the home, and will be impressed with the team that Blair Pogue, the developer of 4400 Belfort Place, assembled to create this architecturally significant Highland Park home.


Most Iconic Home in Highland Park Torn Down at 4101 Beverly Drive – August 21, 2024

4101 Beverly Drive, Dallas, Texas
Highland Park Home sitting on 6.63 Acres

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 Has Been Successfully Sold

Historically and architecturally significant home by architect Hal Thomson found in Highland Park at 3925 Potomac Avenue.
In 1921, Hal Thomson designed 3925 Potomac Avenue in Highland Park for himself, his wife, Geils Adoue Thomson, and his family. This New England-style home in the Mount Vernon neighborhood of Highland Park is tucked into nature as mature trees frame the home.

3925 Potomac Avenue, Dallas, Texas

Hal Thomson Historic Highland Park Home – $4,100,000 Sold

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

Normandy Cottage by Architect Mark Lemmon
Architect Mark Lemmon Designed Normandy Cottage for Himself.

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.

Contemporary home built in 1989 in Highland Park with view of outdoor walk.

Katy Trail Corridor of Old Highland Park Neighborhood

First Section of Old Highland Park Neighborhood

4908 Lakeside Drive, Torn Down

Second Section of Old Highland Park Neighborhood

Turtle Creek Acreage of Old Highland Park Neighborhood

Acreage Section of Old Highland Park Neighborhood

3637 Stratford Avenue, Highland Park, Dallas, Texas

Third Section of Old Highland Park Neighborhood

Normandy Cottage by Architect Mark Lemmon

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

Belfort and Armstrong is heart of the Sixth Section of Highland Park West of Preston

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 Setting at Turtle Creek in Highland Park

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 72 homes for sale listed in Highland Park neighborhood.

Acres0.22Sqft.3,700Bed4Bath4Year1928Lot Size65 X 144
Acres0.15Sqft.2,204Bed3Bath3Year1931
Acres0.18Sqft.3,294Bed4Bath4Year2024Lot Size60x130
Acres0.27Sqft.5,596Bed4Bath4Year1988
Acres0.43Sqft.9,954Bed5Bath5Year2018
Acres0.18Sqft.4,832Bed5Bath5Year1983Lot Size50x157
Acres0.2Sqft.5,404Bed5Bath5Year2024Lot Size65 X 134
Acres0.23Sqft.2,980Bed3Bath3Year1918Lot Size67 x 150
Acres0.17Sqft.2,121Bed3Bath3Year1930Lot Size55X130
Acres0.19Sqft.3,178Bed4Bath4Year1994Lot Size50x167

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 neighborhoods are only two miles from downtown Dallas but they have the atmosphere of a botanical and groomed countryside.
To celebrate 4th of July this year I am posting a video of a Highland Park parade, celebrating a favorite holiday. Jimmy Stewart is quoted on patriotism, there is a special cameo appearance by Highland Park home owners Tracey and Scott Bundy who are raising their daughters in Highland Park, and a look at the festivities and spirit of Highland Park as the floats roll by.

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

Fashion in Highland Park Village

High fashion in Highland Park Village at Cafe Pacific.
What better place to find some cheer on a rainy day than in Highland Park Village outside of Cafe Pacific. A pop of color and wonderful smile does wonders on a dreary day.

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.

Douglas Newby presented at the Beverly Drive Book Club, the oldest book club in Dallas, in the home of Karen Edwards on Beverly Drive in Highland Park, Dallas.
Douglas Newby and Karen Edwards at home of Karen Edwards where Douglas Newby presented at the Beverly Drive Book Club.

Highland Park Homeowner Christy Nance Enjoys Cafe Pacific Patio


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

Realtor Douglas Newby holding Cafe Pacific menu before his dinner guests arrive for a holiday meal prepared by talented chef Terry Cook.

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.

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Douglas Newby Insights of Highland Park

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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@chambersinteriors @haroldleidner #blantyrehomes

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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

Lakeside park provides a ribbon of green space overlooking Turtle Creek as it winds 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.

Acres0.22Sqft.3,700Bed4Bath4Year1928Lot Size65 X 144
Acres0.15Sqft.2,204Bed3Bath3Year1931
Acres0.18Sqft.3,294Bed4Bath4Year2024Lot Size60x130
Acres0.27Sqft.5,596Bed4Bath4Year1988
Acres0.43Sqft.9,954Bed5Bath5Year2018
Acres0.18Sqft.4,832Bed5Bath5Year1983Lot Size50x157
Acres0.2Sqft.5,404Bed5Bath5Year2024Lot Size65 X 134
Acres0.23Sqft.2,980Bed3Bath3Year1918Lot Size67 x 150
Acres0.17Sqft.2,121Bed3Bath3Year1930Lot Size55X130
Acres0.19Sqft.3,178Bed4Bath4Year1994Lot Size50x167

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