Normandy Cottage Style Architecture

Dallas Eclectic Architecture

These fanciful houses are influenced by architectural elements of farmhouses across France. Some are ornate and embellished, others are simple and rustic.

3211 Mockingbird Lane, Dallas, Texas

Normandy Cottage by Architect Mark Lemmon

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.