John Scudder Adkins, who officed out of Cincinnati, Ohio, designed in 1939 a magnificent neoclassical limestone residence in the tradition of McKim, Mead, and White, at 6801 Turtle Creek for Al and Lucy Ball Owsley. Continue

Edward Larrabee Barnes was born in Chicago in 1922. He received his architecture degree from Harvard and his Sheldon Traveling Fellowship he used to experience Europe before he established a private practice in New York and taught at Yale. He created monumental buildings by using geometric modules with a limited palette of materials. Continue

Marice 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.

Alfred T. Gilman, an architect from Los Angeles who was also an associate of Frank Lloyd Wright, designed in 1954 a mid-century modern home on Gaywood. You can see the same 60 degree and 120 degree angled rooms and sloped ceilings as in the home at 9400 Rockbrook that Frank Lloyd Wright designed.

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 is most closely associated with the California mid-century modernist movement. He became Dean of the University of Texas, School of Architecture in Austin and relocated his practice to Dallas in the 1950s. The home he designed for Jean and Seymour Eisenberg was his finest and certainly his sentimental favorite. 9624 Rockbrook was designed in 1957. Hidden from the street, you enter the front door under a trellis and proceed into rooms of efficiently used space, but with materials light in volume that best represents a mid-century home. Continue

Philip Johnson has designed monumental buildings around the world, but Texas, and specifically Dallas, hold a special place for him. He first designed the de Menil House in Houston in 1950. In 1964, he designed the facade of the Beck House on Strait Lane. Later, in Dallas, he designed the Kennedy Memorial in 1970; Thanksgiving Square in 1977; the Marshall Field's facades in Houston and Dallas in 1979, and Momentum Place, now Bank One, in 1987. He is scheduled to design the Cathedral of Hope, also in Dallas.

Edward Durell Stone grew up in Arkansas and followed his older brother to New York where he studied art. He became one of the most important architects in the world for his international style, sheathed in a bris soleil. His projects include the US Embassy at New Delhi, the US Pavilion for the Brussels World Fair in 1958, the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and his most important residence, which he designed in Dallas. This home, designed simultaneously with the US Embassy at New Deli, can be found at Park Lane and Meadowbrook.

Frank Lloyd Wright designed 9400 Rockbrook Drive in 1958 for oilman, John Gillin. Even Frank Lloyd Wright could not resist the Texan's impulse to build large. While many of his homes across the country are of a smaller, utilitarian scale, this 11,000 square foot home sprawls along the seven acre site in the best of Texas traditions. The importance of this home comes in its details. There are numerous rooms with acute angles of 60 and 120 degrees and Frank Lloyd Wright flourishes. These same angles can be seen in the more compact building he did on Turtle Creek for the Kalita Humphreys Theater designed in 1959. All of its components more than hold their own.