Old Highland Park
Explore The Best Neighborhoods, Top Homes, and History of Old Highland Park
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. The last of the Prairie style and craftsman bungalows are found in Old Highland Park along with magnificent and monumental estate homes. But more than just the style of these architecturally significant and historically significant homes, the atmosphere of the original neighborhood remains. We look forward to helping you acquire a home in Old Highland Park.
Here is What You Will Find on This Old Highland Park Page
In this Old Highland Park neighborhood section you will discover 8 best Old Highland Park neighborhoods. In addition you will see a few featured homes to provide you a sense of the range of homes you will find.
Once you have had a chance to review these 8 distinct Old Highland Park neighborhoods, you will see 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 home for sale in MLS found in this neighborhood. You also will see every MLS home for sale mapped. And to give you a better understanding of the Highland Park market, you will see the homes in MLS that have previously sold in this neighborhood.
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Featured Neighborhoods of Old Highland Park
Acreage Section of Old Highland Park
48 acres of Highland Park real estate make up this section of large lots around a hilly loop of Overhill and St. Johns beside Connor Park, between Wycliff and Armstrong Avenue. This lovely section is off by itself, surrounded by parks and greenbelts. It is not interrupted by traffic and it has land large enough to accommodate early mansions and historically significant estate homes by architect John Allen Boyle and architect Hal Thomson making it a favorite neighborhood.
4321 Overhill Drive, Dallas, Texas
The home at 4321 Overhill might be the architecturally significant home that best represents Old Highland Park. Built by one of the developers of Highland Park, this home was designed by architect John Allen Boyle.
Katy Trail Corridor of the Fourth Section of Old Highland Park
Old Highland Park, the oldest part of Highland Park, is known for its parks, trees, and architecturally significant homes. The Katy Trail Corridor of the Fourth Section of Old Highland Park is across from SMU and along the Katy Trail, which makes for a vibrant neighborhood that homeowners love.
3211 Mockingbird Lane, Dallas, Texas
Highland Park, Texas, National Historic Landmark
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.
Best Old Highland Park Neighborhoods
Katy Trail Corridor of Old Highland Park Neighborhood
You will find contemporary houses built from the 1960s through the 21st century. There are eclectic homes, simple homes, and extravagantly renovated homes with the architectural designs of Frank Welch, Max Levy, Lionel Morrison and Svend Fruit. These are quiet streets close to SMU and the best amenities of Dallas. Here you will also see MLS Homes for sale mapped in Katy Trail Corridor of Old Highland Park.
First Section of Highland Park Neighborhood West of Preston Neighborhood
The first section of Highland Park West bounded by Armstrong, Preston and Belclaire maintained the large lot size of the first section of Old Highland Park. Armstrong Parkway is reminiscent of the grandeur of the Swiss Avenue boulevard. Both are lined with historically significant mansions designed by architects Hal Thomson, Fooshee and Cheek, Anton Korn and other prominent architects. Here you will also see MLS Homes for sale mapped in First Section of Highland Park Neighborhood West of Preston.
Second Section of Old Highland Park Neighborhood
In 1910 the second addition of 100 acres was developed between Lakeside Park and the rugged terrain of Hackberry Creek, which winds along Drexel and Highland. Armstrong and the Dallas Country Club on Beverly make up the other boundaries. Historically significant homes built along Lakeside Drive are architectural icons. Here you will also see MLS Homes for sale mapped in Second Section of Old Highland Park.
Turtle Creek Acreage of Old Highland Park Neighborhood
This section is 55 acres between Preston Road and Lakeside, but is the location of only a few enormous homes. The mansions here give Preston Road prestige all the way to North Dallas and beyond. The architecturally significant homes are placed on three to 11 acres. Here you will also see MLS Homes for sale mapped in Turtle Creek Acreage of Old Highland Park.
Acreage Section of Old Highland Park Neighborhood
48 acres of Highland Park real estate make up this section of large lots around a hilly loop of Overhill and St. Johns beside Connor Park, between Wycliff and Armstrong Avenue. This lovely section is off by itself, surrounded by parks and greenbelts. Here you will also see MLS Homes for sale mapped in Acreage Section of Old Highland Park.
Third Section of Highland Park Neighborhood West of Preston Neighborhood
The third addition of Highland Park West of Preston is a little over 25 acres consisting of Beverly, Versailles, and Belclaire between Armstrong Pkwy and Preston Road. There is a series of architecturally significant homes designed in the Mediterranean and Spanish Colonial style by architects Fooshe and Cheek as you cross Armstrong on Beverly Drive that sets the stage for the lovely homes in this small section. Here you will also see MLS Homes for sale mapped in Third Section of Highland Park Neighborhood West of Preston.
Fourth Section of Old Highland Park Neighborhood
The fourth addition was developed in 1917 along Mockingbird across from SMU. Gillon is the southern boundary. Katy Trail and Abbott create the boundary on the Dallas side, historic Hackberry Creek, along St. Johns, make up the western boundary. These 238 acres were developed simultaneously with SMU and many of its streets were named after elite colleges and universities: St. Johns, Cornell, Princeton, Dartmouth and Harvard. Here you will also see MLS Homes for sale mapped in Fourth Section of Old Highland Park.
Hackberry Creek Acreage of Old Highland Park Neighborhood
These spectacular and lush twelve acres are along the meandering historic Hackberry Creek between the First and Second sections and the architecturally significant homes designed by John Wiley and Hal Thomson. Architects Lang and Witchell designed the beautiful and historic Highland Park Town Hall. Here you will also see MLS Homes for sale mapped in Hackberry Creek Acreage of Old Highland Park.
Mapped Old Highland Park Homes for Sale in MLS
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Today’s New Old Highland Park Listings and MLS Status Changes
Find today’s new listings and the total number of Old Highland Park homes for sale in MLS. Today we have a total of 0 new listings and a total of 18 homes for sale listed in Old Highland Park neighborhood.
Are You a Homeowner in Old Highland Park? You Have Come to the Right Place
If you are considering selling your home in Old Highland Park, we will bring you the best results as we best understand your home and the potential buyers. Call me to see if I should represent you in selling your home in Old Highland Park.
Award-winning Realtor Douglas Newby knows the homes in Old Highland Park and understands the nuance of this real estate market.
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Favorite Videos on Old Highland Park
Armstrong Elementary School in Old Highland Park
Princeton Avenue in Highland Park Projects the Elegance of the Neighborhood
The Lovely Beverly Drive Ties the Beautiful Highland Park Neighborhoods Together
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
Featured Example of a Tear Down That Creates a Fabulous Old Highland Park Lot
Highland Park Land For Sale – 97.5 Foot Wide Highland Park Lot
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.
Sold MLS Homes in Old Highland Park
This section is created to help you understand the Old Highland Park market. Knowing the homes that have sold will give you an idea of the future inventory of homes coming on the market and the trend of the Old Highland Park prices.
Old Highland Park Homeowners Appreciate Douglas Newby
Dearest Douglas,
We are so grateful to you for guiding us throughout the exciting process of buying a beautiful Highland Park estate home first and then trying to sell our old Highland Park one in record time. I know you have an eye for distinctive and unique homes given your endless appetite for architecture and cultural comprehension. But your deep understanding of human behavior and the art of negotiation is even more spectacular. You are a rare gem and I am so blessed to count you as a good friend.
Mrs. Scott
Highland Park Homeowner
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