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10036 Hollow Way Road, Dallas, Texas

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Preston Hollow Home 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...  See More

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...  See More

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 Janmar 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...  See More

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...  See More

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...  See More

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. In 1957...  See More

5243 Park Lane, Dallas, Texas

Architecturally Significant

The renovation of this internationally important residence, including reclaiming the pool and floating dining room island, was completed in 2007. Comparable to Edward Durell Stone's international projects, this 1957 Park...  See More

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...  See More

4808 Drexel Drive, Dallas, Texas

Kelley Residence

Sited on a peninsula, a footbridge leads you over the creek to the house defined by the meandering creek on three sides. Jim Wiley of the Oglesby Group designed this...  See More

9624 Rockbrook Drive, Dallas, Texas

Preston Hollow Mid Century Modern Home

Harwell Hamilton Harris is one of the most important architects to have ever designed a home in Dallas. His work appears from the East to the West Coast, but he...  See More

5303 Waneta Drive, Dallas, Texas

Architect Designed

This 2,400 square foot, three-bedroom, two-bath home is a celebration of one of Dallas’s best architectural firms of the mid 20th century, Hidell and Decker, who originally designed this award-winning...  See More

5230 Yolanda Lane, Dallas, Texas

Original Home, 1.21 Acres, 200 Feet Wide  Sold by Douglas Newby

The most desirable Preston Hollow lots are on quiet streets and often in the middle of a block of other wide estate lots. A site like this provides privacy and...  See More

The grandeur and grace of Beverly Drive has been defined for almost 100 years by the Mediterranean style homes invoking opulence and prestige reminiscent of Beverly Hills, California. You'll find classic architectural idioms and Mediterranean style in these Highland Park Estate Homes.

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...  See More

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...  See More

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...  See More

4001 Beverly Drive, Dallas, Texas

Architecturally Significant Home

The many compliments of this new home indicate that it has struck a chord with Dallas. This Romanesque styled home is built out of Texas fossilized limestone. We see many...  See More

4726 Drexel Drive, Dallas, Texas

Highland Park Mediterranean Style Home

This Mediterranean style home designed in 1919 along Hackberry Creek in Highland Park, is significant both architecturally for its renovation and for who has lived in the home over the...  See More

3657 Maplewood Avenue, Dallas, Texas

This Italian eclectic home built in 1990 recalls the great houses of the 1920s. 9 foot doors and 11 foot ceilings create a vertical space as the home moves easily...  See More

3828 Turtle Creek Drive, Dallas, Texas

Architect John Allen Boyle, who also designed the Shepherd King Mansion, designed this Mediterranean home with elaborate tile and stone detailing. The terraced gardens down to the creek are reminiscent...  See More

5381 Nakoma Drive, Dallas, Texas

Greenway Parks Modern Home

In 1951, Howard Meyer designed this International Modern style home for Mr. and Mrs. Ben Lipshy. It was beautifully restored by Carolyn and James Clark in 1981. Art and architectural...  See More

10 Nonesuch Road, Dallas, Texas

This DeWitt and Washburn architect designed modern home with a flat roof and wide overhangs is now situated on three acres and remains one of the most important and first...  See More

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...  See More

4700 Preston Road, Dallas, Texas

Highland Park Historic Home

Anton Korn designed 4700 Preston on 7.7 acres in 1917. This home was built for Highland Park developer Hugh Prather, former owners include Electra Waggoner. His other important homes on...  See More

4324 Saint Johns Drive, Dallas, Texas

One of the most frustrating trends in the country's historic suburbs is to tear down a historic home form the early part of this century to build a home of...  See More

6801 Baltimore Drive, Dallas, Texas

6801 Baltimore was designed by Hal Thomson for George T. and Isabel Brown Lee in the Spring of 1929. The solid brick exterior walls are reminiscent of the Georgian style...  See More

In Preston Hollow estate area Larry Boerder has designed the finest English manor homes and Edwardian estate homes in Dallas reflecting the Edwardian style of grace and elegance.

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...  See More

Modern technology and materials have allowed architects to expand and refine the themes developed by Mies van der Rohe and Corbusier.

3117 Cornell Avenue, Dallas, Texas

On Block With Entrance to Katy Trail  Sold by Douglas Newby

A contemporary house in the Katy Trail corridor of Old Highland Park. Two very large spaces with many windows are connected by double passageways or by a long corridor lined with windows. Every room has prominent views of the side courtyard with a perimeter of Cypress trees, creating a sophisticated canopy and serene space.  See More

Bluestem Residence, Cresson, Texas

This contemporary Bluestem residence was designed by architect Normand D. Ward in Cresson, Texas. A single roof rests on four pavilions with breezeways and walkways that help filter out sunlight...  See More

The Rachofsky House

Richard Meier - Preston House

Howard Rachofsky encouraged and allowed Richard Meier to explore and experiment in this 10,000 square foot home on Preston Road. The seemingly simple, effortlessly floating stark facade belies its massive...  See More

3502 Edgewater Street, Dallas, Texas

Dallas Contemporary House in Northern Heights

This is the only single-family home in Northern Heights adjacent to the Katy Trail. A creased plane of glazed openings embrace the pool and backdrop of the dense 30 ft...  See More

5030 Ravine Drive, Dallas, Texas

Bud Oglesby Designed Home in Preston Hollow

Architect Enslie (Bud) Oglesby designed this 4,400 square foot contemporary home in 1970. Award-winning architect Ron Wommack, who came out of the Oglesby shop, calls it "Bud's purest work." This...  See More

3509 Crescent Avenue, Dallas, Texas

This modern home was built in 2005 and a project of the architecture firm Merrill, Pastor & Colgan who have designed buildings all over the world. The home sits in...  See More

3501-03 Springbrook Street, Dallas, Texas

Northern Heights Contemporary Home

In 1987, Lionel Morrison designed a modern single-family attached townhome in Northern Heights. Other important architects followed, including Frank Welch, Graham Greene, Ron Wommack and others, both in Northern Heights...  See More

Norman Ward, AIA, Renovated Bill Booziotis, FAIA, Modern Home

See how one talented Texas contemporary architect approaches the renovation design on the work of another award winning architect, resulting in great architecture created by Norman Ward, AIA, and Bill...  See More

Dan Shipley Renovation in Highland Park

Renovation design in Highland Park by Dan Shipley, FAIA.

Dan Shipley's Renovation of Scott Lyons' Original Design

Dan Shipley created the renovation design for the Scott Lyons, AIA, Texas Modern home featured as the site of the Premiere Party for the 2017 AIA Dallas Tour of Homes.  See More

Entrances, windows and cornices of Colonial Revival homes are emphasized. Their front door often has a decorative and embellished pediment and the house if often lined with pairs of windows. Anton Korn designed 4700 Preston on 7.7 acres in 1917.

4618 Shadywood Lane, Dallas, Texas

Classic Colonial Revival

When I think of the perfect proportions of an original estate home, this architect Wilson McClure-designed renovated home is always the one I think back to. The ceilings are high,...  See More

3500 Rock Creek Drive, Dallas, Texas

Turtle Creek Park Colonial Revival

Goodwin and Tatum designed this Colonial Revival home for Henry W. Strasberger, the founder of one of Dallas' oldest law firms, and his wife, who was an architectural student at...  See More

Society architects from the 1880s to the 1920s often studied at Ecole des Beaux Arts in France, thus the name, Beaux Arts style. Classical forms and proportions were the basis of these elaborately decorated and embellished structures that held so much appeal to the industrialists desiring lavish homes.

4101 Beverly Drive, Dallas, Texas

Beverly Drive

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...  See More

4607 Ross Avenue, Dallas, Texas

East Dallas Mansion

Ross Avenue was a street with house after house of individual splendor. On the edge of town, each mansion was built with the proper amount of land and magnificence to...  See More

As Art Deco swept the country in 1936, the Centennial Exhibition buildings at Fair Park were designed in this style. Several Art Moderne or Art Deco residences were designed at the same time.

4637 Mockingbird Lane, Dallas, Texas

This home was designed by John Astin Perkins for the Texas Centennial in 1936. Its geometric patterns more closely reflect Art Deco than that of Art Moderne homes designed for...  See More

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