Walnut Hill to Forest Lane

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.

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.

Crespi Estate

Douglas Newby has sold the Crespi Estate in the past, brought the attention of the Crespi Estate to the last three owners, and understands the impact of cutting the home site in half and eliminating the winding ceremonial drive approaching the home, surrounding the home with oversized speculative houses. Retaining Douglas Newby as your real estate broker representing you as your buyer’s agent will provide you with the intimate insight of the property and the impact of the potential development and the recent modifications to its historic refinement and legacy.

Douglas Newby looks forward to helping you take advantage of this current situation and opportunity.

Considered the Best Estate Home Built in 1930’s

Crespi Estate
The Epitome of Preston Hollow – Sold by Douglas Newby

Maurice Fatio trained in Switzerland and began his practice in New York. In the 1920s he was voted the most important architect in New York. His largest body of work is in Palm Beach and in Long Island where he built estate homes for society patrons and business tycoons.

Besides many important projects he designed outside of the US, he designed one of his most important, and his last large estate home in Dallas before he died in his mid 40s. This is Dallas’ most important estate home. The renovation and expansion by architect Peter Marino is in the process of being completed.

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.

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.

Crespi Hicks Estate – Finest Estate Home in America

Architect Maurice Fatio Designed the Crespi Estate

Crespi Experience – Crespi Insights

To Find Out More About the Crespi Estate, Contact Douglas Newby

From previously selling the Crespi Estate, Douglas Newby intimately knows the attributes and detriments of the Crespi Estate better than anyone in Dallas.  The Crespi Estate home is now on its fourth property and home configuration as the home is currently being offered for sale on approximately 15.69 acres.

I probably know more about the Crespi Estate than any other home in Dallas

Douglas Newby

Originally, the home was sold on 20 acres with its original ceremonial drive cresting over a hill, providing a Biltmore Estate effect.

Then the next owner of the property offered the home with 25 acres, with the main drive traversing the property from Hollow Way. The additional five acres had been added to the estate to provide a service drive along the tollway. Next, the now 25 acres were divided up into smaller lots, eliminating the original ceremonial drive and also eliminating the sweeping entrance drive that traversed the property from Hollow Way. This made the service drive along the tollway the main entrance to the Crespi Estate home. After the Crespi Estate property was divided into smaller lots, the Crespi Estate home was offered on approximately 10 acres. While large homes have already been built on the original front yard of the Crespi Estate, now three of the proposed lots, not yet developed for homes, are being offered in the current configuration of the property to allow the back yard to be better visually protected. The new listing broker now has the current configuration of the Crespi Estate home on 15 acres with a new listing price of $64,000,000.

The original 1939 Crespi Estate has a storied and glorious past. It will be interesting in a few years, after all the newly created lots get built on and the property and the Crespi Estate home get sold, what the future might bring to this development.

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Crespi Estate 5619 Walnut Hill – More Building Less Land

The third iteration of the Crespi Estate is on reduced acreage with the entrance next to the toll road at the new address of 5619 Walnut Hill Lane. The Crespi Estate home is twice as large as what Maurice Fatio originally designed but it is on half as much acreage. You can see over 100 photographs of the Crespi Estate on the full acreage at 10000 Hollow Way by reading further. Or you can see photographs of the original Crespi Estate at 5555 Walnut Hill.

Price Incongruities in Architecturally Significant Homes

Architecturally significant homes like the Crespi Estate have widely divergent prices. Some of these architect-designed homes are high concept homes, some are historic homes, others are period modern homes. These can be hard to understand the value because they do not have a 21st century condition or finish. Other architecturally significant homes distract attention from the fabulous sites they are on that the original architect selected causing the home to sell for even less than the lot value. Some architecturally significant homes go on the market at twice what they are worth or what they will sell for because the price misses the mark of what the current market requires. Other architecturally significant homes go unknown and unrecognized and are offered at a fraction of their real worth.

Douglas Newby is Best Qualified to Represent You as a Buyer’s Agent

Agents who are your cousins, neighbors or friends might serve you well if you are looking for or selling a generic home that matches all the comparables on the street. Douglas Newby best understands Architecturally Significant properties. He will be able to best help you with the Crespi Estate, or any Architecturally Significant Home. Contact Douglas Newby to represent you as a buyer’s agent. Below you can read further about the Crespi Estate.

An Estate Home that Exemplifies Architecturally Significant

There are faux estate homes, builder homes, spec homes, development homes, but proper estate homes are much different. The finest estate homes elevate the cultural consciousness.

Inspiring Cultural Consciousness

While generic homes tire me, significant homes inspire me. I have found one home that is truly profound – the Crespi / Hicks estate. When I visited this estate home on its winding approach and then upon entering the home, I felt an adrenaline surge as well as, simultaneously, a feeling of calm, much the same sensation as an athlete experiences in the “zone.” I see how it inspires others, too, in much the same way. I have watched men stand up straighter in the presence of such powerful architecture and women become softer, even lovelier, in the presence of perfect proportions and subtle refinement.

Crespi Hicks Estate Personifies Essential Characteristics of an Estate Home

When searching for the finest estate home, I have found there are essential characteristics of an estate home. For instance, there must be vast land cared for in an ecologically friendly way and the home needs to be close enough to a vibrant city center so as to enable a family to live in the home as a primary residence.

In addition, an estate home must be awe-inspiring and still have the gentle warmth and intimacy desired by a family. It should offer the finest environment and opportunities to explore all aspects of life, entertaining, working, playing, studying, enjoying family or retreating within oneself to reflect.

Also essential, a significant estate home must have a rich architectural pedigree: the genius of the original architect in creating perfect proportions; the brilliance of a renovation architect in furthering the completion of the home; the elegance of the era in which the home was built (an era when royalty, aristocrats, industrialists, titans and United States presidents would visit or stay for a season); the history – i.e., the stories the home has to tell; and, most important, the vision of the estate home owner, the architectural patron. It is this patron of the arts who has the eye, passion and respect for creating an estate home that transcends time – a home that is both aesthetic perfection as well as a truly livable home. A magnificent estate home is only possible when the owner successfully draws from the past and propels the original design forward in a subtle and graceful way into the 21st century.