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In 1924, M. Barnett designed two important homes on Swiss Avenue, 5816 and 5822. They reflected the progressive and Prairie styles found on Swiss Avenue but designed with the Mediterranean influence. The bay on one side is balanced by the gable on the other side. The 5816 property is more purely eclectic, rooted in old European influences.

This Mid-Century Modern home is one of the finest in the city. It was a collaboration of architect William E. Benson, interior designer Louise Kahn, landscape architect Richard Myrick and Houston Powell was the contractor. It has been maintained and preserved. The original spaces are delightfully current and spacious. On a large piece of property, this will be one of the finest opportunities to own a celebrated 50's modern home.

Ed Beran and Overton Shelmire both served as presidents of AIA and on the selection committee of the Dallas Restoration House of the Year Award. Whether a person sees a beautiful pavilion in Colorado or an addition to a Highland Park home, it often turns out to be designed by Ed Beran and Overton Shelmire. They designed commercial buildings such as the Loews Anatole and did the exquisite renovation and restoration of the Adolphus Hotel and French Room. Overton Shelmire's two favorite projects are the Woman's Building and the Junior League Building.

Sir Alfred C. Bossom worked in New York from 1903 to 1926. In 1922, he designed the Magnolia Building at 108 Akard Street. This 29 story Renaissance Revival skyscraper was the 16th tallest in the United States and the tallest south of Philadelphia. In 1934, Pegasus, the 30-foot high red neon revolving flying red horse, was placed on top of a 50-foot tower becoming, and remaining today, Dallas' unofficial logo. In 1924, he designed the Maple Terrace, Dallas' first luxury apartments. In 1927, he designed the home at 6835 Westlake Avenue for Arthur Kramer, the president of the department store A. Harris and Company. Bossom used steel framing and steel ball bearings that would allow the house to move as the soil shifted.

John Allen Boyle is little known but for the architecture of three of Dallas' favorite, dramatic and picturesque residences. He designed the Sheppard King Mansion in 1916, what is now The Mansion on Turtle Creek. A mosaic dome is seen again at 2821 Turtle Creek, another Mediterranean style home. 4323 Overhill Drive also celebrates his use of stained glass, and myriad patterns of intricate ceramic tile. You can see the Mediterranean Moorish influences in all three. The terrace gardens down to the creek at 3828 Turtle Creek are reminiscent of the best Mexican stone and tile work of Colonial Mexico.

David Braden is known as a commercial architect, business leader, civic leader, lecturer and humorist. Less well known is his major accomplishment as a residential architect. Inspired by Harwell Hamilton Harris and other California modernists, he designed several important houses in Old Oak Cliff, including the splendid home built in 1950 on West Colorado in Oak Cliff. Continue

Ralph Bryan designed the Louisiana neo classical style home in Perry Heights at 4524 Rawlins. Arch Swank later adapted this style for the home for Earl Hart Miller, the famous Dallas interior designer originally from New Orleans. The 1936 home on Rawlins was a result of an extended trip through Louisiana with the original owner. Bryan was one of the selected architects for the buildings celebrating the Texas Centennial for the 1936 State Fair of Texas. You can also see his work at 8145 San Benito in Forest Hills.

C. W. Bulger and his son, Clarence C. Bulger, specialized in and designed over 75 churches in Texas and many more in 20 states. When Clarence graduated from the University of Chicago in 1903 he joined his father and moved from Galveston to Dallas. They designed in 1907 the Praetorian Building, the first skyscraper in Texas. In 1902, C. W. Bulger designed Gaston Avenue Baptist Church, now Criswell College and later Crockett School. Their family home was at 4419 Junius Street in Peak Suburban addition. C. W. and Clarence designed homes on Lakeside in 1910, in Lakewood in 1923 and in Northern Hills in 1949. He worked in an eclectic style that succeeded in every decade.

Ken Burgess was raised in New Mexico and studied under Hal Box at the University of Texas in 1977. His passion for the Southwest is evident in his modern work that plays off images of Texas. His houses are often clusters of smaller separate structures connected by long galleries covered by a gently sloping 5 x 12 standing seam metal roof. He is best known for his most vertical residence found at 2814 Park Bridge Court.

Guy Cahoon designed in 1930 perhaps the most charming home in Northern Hills. Built behind the brook and nestled under the trees, this brick two-story cottage has been renovated and expanded by architect Dan Shipley. Guy Cahoon was also a very respected illustrator and artist.

In 1929, Carsey and Linskie secured an important commission from the Dallas Parks Department. In an effort to develop White Rock Lake for recreational uses, they retained Carsey and Linskie to design a boat house and a bath house. The bath house, made of reinforced concrete and designed with fluted piers, became one of the earliest Art Deco buildings in Dallas. In 1931, Carsey and Linskie designed a prominent Tudor home at 1414 Colorado. This work joins four or five others that set the tone for Kessler Park and Old Oak Cliff. In 1949, John D. Carsey designed one of the first classic mid-century modern homes in Dallas at 5343 Wateka in Greenway Parks.

E. Ross Chandler in 1923 designed 6017 Swiss, a Tudor style home with high-fired oversized brick and tile roof.

Christensen & Christensen in the early 1940s designed some of the most beautiful homes in Lakewood found on Meadowlake, Westlake, and Lakewood Boulevard. Their eclectic style combined both French and English influences. Collaborating with theater architect W. Scott Dunne, they designed the Art Deco styled band shell at Fair Park with Moderne streamlined detailing.

George Dahl might be the most famous architect in Dallas. He not only designed important commercial buildings downtown, including the Neiman Marcus store, but as a partner in Greene, LaRoche and Dahl, he helped design the Titche-Goettinger store (now lofts) at 1900 Elm Street. While the building is reminiscent of a Florentine Renaissance piazza, he included many Texas motifs, much like he did later at Fair Park. In 1936, he was the principal architect for the State Fair of Texas at Fair Park. His enthusiastic use of this Texas motif inspired him to refer to the Park's design as "Art Deco Texana." He designed many estate homes in Lakewood, Highland Park, Volk Estates and University Park on streets such as Tokalon, Armstrong, Bordeaux, Euclid, Lorraine, Miramar and even one at 5847 Vanderbilt in Geneva Heights, next to Greenland Hills in Old East Dallas. George Dahl's many sketchbooks of watercolors and line drawings that he did during the three years he traveled across Europe as a Harvard fellow have been recently uncovered by his niece, interior designer Adrienne Faulkner.

Todd Dale was part of the circle of artists and architects including O'Neil Ford, Arch Swank and Jerry Bywaters. He built one of the small, mid-century homes on Amherst that became known as Culture Gulch because of the artists that resided in them.

Charles Danna was one of the contributing architects to the State Fair of Texas buildings. He was a classicist whose work can be seen at 4433 Bordeaux. In the mid 1990s the front door was replaced to suit the architectural mood of the time.

Dewitt and Washburn designed the contemporary model home for the Texas Centennial celebration at Fair Park. After the Fair, the home was moved to 6851 Gaston. This 1936 Art Moderne home remains one of four or five in the city, also designed in 1936, that exemplify this Art Deco period. This movement was so strong in 1936 that even Maurice Fatio, known for designing some of the country's most extravagant, eclectic estate homes, designed a beautifully conceived small Art Moderne home in Palm Beach in 1936. Continue

Charles Dilbeck was born in 1907 in Fort Smith, Arkansas. At an early age he worked in Tulsa creating and adapting plans for builders and developers. His experience as a lumberyard architect contributed to his use and prominent displays of rough and refined woods and handcrafted details. Usually referred to as a romantic and eccentric architect, he took credit for designing the first Texas ranch house. While Texas homes are usually attributed to David Williams and O'Neil Ford, Dilbeck was simultaneously designing these homes with fireplaces in the screened-in porches, hand-carved mantles, hammered metal work, herringbone patterned plank ceilings, oversized fireplaces and floor plans to capture the southeastern breezes in the summer. Part of his genius was to create comparable volumes regardless of the space of the room. As a result, small rooms would have soaring ceilings while large rooms could afford more traditional ceiling heights. Dilbeck has captured the imagination of Dallas with his prolific work that includes dozens of small idiosyncratic houses to large estate homes that personify his design and characteristic.

The majority of the substantial homes built in what is now known as the Lakewood Conservation District, were designed by Dines & Kraft in the 1920s and 1930s. Dines and Kraft was a developer that built spec homes, but since they often used talented architects to design their homes they developed an architectural brand and following. 2627 South Boulevard, built in 1921, is a good example of their approach to residences.

Marion Fooshee (1888-1956) & James Cheek (1895-1970) both trained under and worked for Hal Thomson, the most eloquent designer of the early twentieth century. Fooshee apprenticed with Thomson instead of going to college and Fooshee attended the University of Texas at Austin first. When they created their own firm they continued designing society homes in the gracious and eclectic style of Hal Thomson. They are best known as the designers of Highland Park Village, the nation's first self-contained shopping center, and Mediterranean style homes. However, when they collaborated with Hal Thomson they did beautiful neoclassical and English style homes on Lakeside and Alice Circle and a home for Howard Byrd in 1933 at 6909 Vassar. In 1950, the firm designed the Colonial Revival home with a white picket fence on the largest lot in Greenway Parks, 5373 Wenonah. Fooshee and Cheek's Spanish style office was torn down to make room for the Dallas Museum of Art.

O'Neil Ford first came to Dallas to work with David Williams, who was determined to establish a style that merged the modernism of Europe with the indigenous qualities of the early pioneer houses of Texas. O'Neil Ford quickly became the darling of Dallas, spending his energies at night at balls with debutantes and his days working with the most original architects and artists in Dallas. O'Neil Ford became the grandfather of Texas Modernism spurring generations of future architects who reinterpret this architectural approach. O'Neil Ford designed his first project as a studio for Jerry Bywaters in 1929 and designed the Haggerty/Hanley home in Dallas before he left for San Antonio in 1957.

While each individual architect at Greene LaRoche & Dahl designed significant projects, this firm was also responsible for designing architecturally significant homes and commercial buildings. One of their distinguished homes is found in Volk Estates at 6701 Turtle Creek.

Glenn Allen Galaway originally trained with Philip Johnson. He only designed a few homes in Dallas, but was rediscovered by architect Cliff Welch, who restored a mid-century modern home Galaway designed in the Lake Park Estates greenbelt. Galaway designed 1019 Waterford in 1954 for himself. It is a good example of a small house with a very sophisticated design. Twelve foot sliding glass doors lead to the back yard and adjacent flood plain and green belt. Cliff Welch restored this residence for his own home. This home has since won a 25-Year Award from the Dallas Chapter AIA.

David George was one of the strongest modernists working in the 1960s and 1970s. He combined elements that drew from mid-century modernism and indigenous Texas houses. He incorporated standing seam metal roofs, continuous brick walls and planes of glazed openings. Two of his significant homes are in the Bluffview area found on Shorecrest and at 4050 Cochran Chapel Road, which he designed in 1980.

Herbert Greene is known as one of the partners of Greene LaRoche, and Dahl. In 1914, he designed the Italianate home at 4101 Beverly on 6.6 acres. His firm also designed 6701 Turtle Creek. Herbert Greene is also attributed with designing in 1900 the Belo Mansion at 2101 Ross.

Robert Goodwin, when he was working on his own, designed 4200 Bordeaux in 1950.

Goodwin & Tatum designed for the Strasburgers a home that remains a favorite for many people in Dallas at 3500 Rock Creek in Turtle Creek Park. They also designed 4425 Versailles and homes on Swiss Avenue. Robert Goodwin designed 4200 Bordeaux in 1950.

Joseph Gordon was a mid-century modernist who designed homes north of Preston Hollow. In 1955, he designed 11341 Hillcrest Road, and in 1951 he designed 6206 Royal Lane.

The greenbelt wraps around this mid-century modern home designed by architects Bill Hidell and Howard Decker, proteges of George Dahl and Howard Meyer respectively. The 3,850 original square feet reflect coherent volumes and design. The floor plan is open with walls of windows and glazed openings exploiting the secluded green vistas. The open tread staircase is juxtaposed with a brick wall, steel struts and railing, and soaring glass. The extensive renovation celebrates the style and setting of this architect designed home.

Bertram Hill designed in 1927 one of the most imposing houses on Swiss Avenue at 5907 Swiss. His use of steel beams in the structure, 25 stained glass windows and doors and elaborate mosaic tile in the detailing created both a solid structure and elaborate example of his ability. You can also see examples of his work at 5619, 5711 and 6014 Swiss Avenue and 6926 Westlake. In 1928, he designed 5736 Swiss Avenue where you can see a more effusive use of brick and stone and the magnificent Rookwood tile sunroom and fountain.

C.D. Hill designed many of Dallas' prominent buildings and residences in the early 1900's. They include First Presbyterian Church and the old City Hall building. He was the architect for the five acre estate home on Preston Road that was inhabited for many years by Governor and Mrs. Clements. This 10,000 square foot home was recently torn down to make room for a larger one. Fortunately, the mansions C.D. Hill designed on Swiss Avenue remain. He originally managed the Dallas office of Sanguinet and Staats. He collaborated on the Adolphus Hotel and Melrose Hotel and designed the Davis Building and First Presbyterian Church downtown.

Clifford D. Hutsell has almost become synonymous with Lakewood even though he got his start on South Boulevard and continued to do work in Highland Park. Clifford Hutsell was infatuated with and expressed in his designs the Spanish Colonial styles that were popular in Beverly Hills. In 1929, he went to California and was further influenced by the Spanish Eclectic Beverly Hills home of cowboy star Tom Mix. On Hutsell's return to Dallas, he would incorporate several design elements of this home into the residence he was designing for himself at 7035 Lakewood and future homes. His idiosyncratic detailing and palette included multi-colored ceramic tile, wide-arched stained glass windows, balcony porches and exterior stairs to the second floor reflecting Spanish Colonial Revival homes. His architectural design is the most dramatic when several in a row march up the street visually fitting together like intricate pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. His whimsical approach did for Mediterranean what Dilbeck did for Texas Ranch houses. Hutsell almost made Dilbeck seem restrained.

Bob James designed this AIA award-winning home to blend into the neighborhood and provide dramatic views by the surrounding creek and woods. With 3,450 square feet, it is both stylish and practical. It is sited on one-half acre overlooking Royal Branch Creek and a public wilderness park behind it. In a gesture to the neighborhood of 1960s ranch style homes, Vicki's Creek House blends into the streetscape. As you pass through the front facade of translucent glass that provides privacy from the street, you discover a splendid and open floor plan with expansive walls with a grid of horizontal windows separating the interior from the woods and rugged terrain of Royal Branch Creek and the park. The striated detailing of the limestone wall surrounding the fireplace is illuminated by a skylight emphasizing this sculptural element. The kitchen is blond with sleek, flush panel cabinet doors and unobtrusive knobs. A broad stone peninsula both separates and integrates the kitchen and family room. Going outside, you step onto a deck that juts like a pier towards the creek, extending the home into nature, continuing the solitude you find within the home protecting you from the demands of the city. The ambiguity of the interior and exterior space is further enhanced by the generous use of exterior materials within the home - exposed concrete floors, clear maple cabinetry and a subtle blend of texture, color and shadows.

Anton Korn designed many impressive homes in Dallas and Highland Park. It appears that he was the only architect of his caliber to be so involved in speculative homes in the 1920s. He might have even been the owner or partner in a home building company. Besides several homes on Swiss Avenue, from 1917 to 1920 he designed houses for Hugh E. Prather, Highland Park; Mrs. Cicero Smith, Beverly Drive; William Bacon, Beverly Drive; Hugh Bell, St. John's Drive; Worth Wimberley, Beverly Drive; Thomas Morrissey, Turtle Creek Boulevard; and Henry Boazman, Maple Avenue. The Beverly Drive property was designed in 1924 utilizing replaned oak timbers from the grand Oriental Hotel when it was torn down. Ted Larson was a renovating architect of 3708 Alice Circle, which was originally designed by Anton Korn in 1924. Korn's Tudor design can also be seen at 4500 Lakeside, 4328 Overhill and 5505 Keller Springs Road. At 4700 Preston Road he designed the home in a Georgian or Colonial Revival style.

Otto H. Lang and Frank O. Witchell were the most important Dallas architectural firm in the early 1900s. Otto Lang was born and trained as a structural engineer in Germany. Frank Witchell was born in 1879, in South Wales. He apprenticed with J. Reiley Gordon at the architectural firm Sanguinet and Staats. Lang and Witchell were influenced by Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright, which can be seen in both their high-rise buildings and their residences.

Mark Lemmon attained his undergraduate degree from University of Texas in 1912 and his architecture degree from MIT in 1916. Mark Lemmon had a career interspersed with partners that were both Classicists and Modernists. His prolific success came from commercial, academic, ecclesiastical and residential projects. Continue

Scott Lyons originally worked for O'Neil Ford and continued exploring the same architectural themes. As a one-man office, he designed important Highland Park residences and country homes using indigenous materials, screened-in porches and sprawling houses that created courtyards. On the fascia of the Lexington House, he introduces cobalt blue ceramic tile imported from Asia for this stone Texas Modern home he designed in 1958.

George Marble, in the early and mid 1930s, designed homes in Lakewood and in Highland Park. You can see his work at 4319 Lorraine that he designed in 1935, or the half-timbered home with Normandy influences that is a Lakewood landmark at 6748 Lakewood Boulevard that he designed in 1934.

Wilson McClure had a brilliant career designing homes from the 1930s that had a Texas flair, to very formal Georgian homes in the late 1930s, to more contemporary homes in the 1950s. Regardless of the style, he designed homes with beautiful proportions and maybe was the first to design oversized living rooms and family rooms.

Ralph Merrill was a modernist who is known for his Mid-Century modern homes. He designed 3520 Rock Creek in Turtle Creek Park. This once very small low-slung home next to the creek has recently been expanded and renovated.

Rick Brettell sites Howard Meyer as the first international modernist architect in Dallas, "When Meyer arrived in Texas in 1935, he was the best-trained architect in the state, having the distinguished undergraduate career in the humanities and a further degree from the Columbia School of Architecture from which he graduated in 1928." Continue

Charles Moore and Arthur Andersson made up the architectural firm of Moore and Andersson. While they were based in Austin they also taught at Yale and had influence across the country. In 1985, they designed the most important post modern home in Dallas, originally for Robert K. Hoffman, at 9019 Broken Arrow. Classical elements are reinterpreted in this post modern home set back from the street and into the steep topography of Broken Arrow.

Bud Oglesby and his firm, Oglesby Group Architects, was one of the most important firms in Dallas for several decades. He has had more influence on the modernist architects working in Dallas in the twenty-first century than any other architect. He was a native of Phoenix, was raised in San Angelo and he received his masters' degree in architecture from MIT. He recognized that, "Dallas residents travel a lot and there are so many choices of materials that it prevents a definitive look." His homes always had a relaxed elegance, exploring light and accommodating a family's lifestyle.

John Astin Perkins is known both as an interior designed and an architect. He has a large body of work where he designed the home from the ground up but his real capability lay in his interior design. Much of his interior detailing still survives on the Hal Thomson designed home at 3925 Potomac.

Harold Prinz and Lavere Brooks made up the architectural firm of Prinz and Brooks. They designed many of the most significant modern mid-century homes in Dallas. Harold Prinz built his family home at 5016 Maple Springs in Oak Lawn Heights. One of their most important homes was designed in 1955 for the original owner Earl Hayes, and can be found at 718 Kessler Lake, built into a hillside and cantilevered over a lake. The deliberate use of cypress, brick and glass effectively integrate the house into its forested environment. The original builder was Walter L. Dosterschill and the landscape architects were Van Valkenburgh and more recently, Erica Vogel.

W. H. Reeves designed one of the grandest houses on Swiss Avenue. Originally it was the home of W. W. Caruth, with dark stained woodwork accentuating the grand ceremonial staircase and a series of formal music rooms, living rooms, sitting rooms and public rooms that you expect in a home of one of Dallas' most famous and wealthiest families. Like many Swiss Avenue homeowners, they went to their summer home, in this case, the home at 8000 Cornerstone Parkway adjacent to Caruth Home Place. Mary Ellen Bendtsen, the current and second homeowner, is a very grand and beautiful woman. She is a musician and she was a model for the original 1936 Fair Park statues.

Luther Sadler designed many Art Moderne or Art Deco residences in Dallas. These are found both in Oak Cliff and in Lakewood, exemplifying the sleek almost nautical themes of these white geometric homes. In 1936, he designed 6843 Lorna Lane. The same year he designed the Christian Science Monitor Pavilion, now the Education Annex to the Dallas Aquarium at Fair Park. Earlier, in 1926, Sadler designed the building of the Oriental Rug Cleaning Company with its distinctive Moorish facade with asymmetrical arches. This landmark building at 3907 Ross was built when the mansions on Ross were in decline or gone.

Burton Schutt and Denman Scott were brothers that made up the architectural firm Schutt & Scott. Because of the anti-German sentiment in the first half of the twentieth century, Denman changed his surname to Scott. They were important California architects who designed Hotel Bel-Air in California, along with many other significant and historic residences and buildings in Bel-Air and Beverly Hills. In 1937, they came to Dallas to design a 21,000 square foot home for oilman Everett Lee DeGolyer on 44 acres at 8525 Garland Road, on the shores of White Rock Lake.

V.E. Shanklin designed one of the favorite homes found in Lakewood.

C.P. Sites designed some of the largest, most imposing houses in the first addition of Swiss Avenue. 4937 Swiss has a sweeping center staircase with a landing designed for grand piano, and a library at the top of the stairs, with polished, stained woodwork, found throughout the house. With only three bedrooms and 5,700 square feet, it is easy to tell that he emphasized public spaces over bedrooms. He designed 4930 Swiss Avenue in 1913, that at first glance could look like Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie Style, but upon further examination, realize it is C.P. Sites' interpretation of this progressive style.

Harwood K. Smith is known for his design of commercial development, but he also did handsome modern residences. He collaborated on One Main Place in 1968 and Renaissance Tower in 1973.

John Staub was a prominent architect in Houston who came to Dallas in 1936 at the request of Alex Camp and Roberta Coke Camp to design their home on 22 acres on the shores of White Rock Lake. While 8,500 square feet, it is sited in the landscape in an unimposing way. Architect James Pratt notes the natural light within all the principal rooms. Architect Frank Welch states, "the Camp House is wonderfully realized, terribly handsome, the best of regional vernacular." The doors slide into the walls, the floor plan is open, breezes from across the lake sweep through the elevated balconies and porches. It is a home that has influenced many regional architects. Arch and Patsy Swank reminisced that O'Neil Ford and Arch were not formally involved in the design of this home, they would, however, quietly review the plans, offer suggestions and most of all, bolster Mrs. Camp's confidence before the prominent Staub would come to town for meeting and review.

Arch Swank was born June 2, 1913, in Wills Point, Texas, and received his architecture degree from Texas A&M in 1936. Janet Kendell formally introduced Arch Swank to O'Neil Ford after she met Arch on a ship carrying them back from Europe. Swank and Ford worked years together and collaborated on many projects. One of their first collaborations was in the Canary Islands on the house for Sid Richardson, much of which they designed on the site. Scraps of wood found on the beach would end up serving as a medium for their drawings and details. He was married to Patsy Swank, one of Dallas' leading journalists covering art and architecture. The groomsmen at their wedding included Ralph Bryan, O'Neil Ford, David Williams and Todd Dale. This group also formed the Atomic Egg and Dart Club in which 25 people from all over the country, including Buckminster Fuller, would attend a 3-day, 24-hour around-the-clock party. Howard Meyer was very respected and a friend of this group, but not a pal, as he had a very different and more serious personality.

While primarily a commercial architect, Arthur Elliott Thomas started his practice in 1925 with designing single-family homes as part of the Dallas Daily Times Herald Perfect Homes project. He designed an English Tudor cottage, one of the first two Perfect Homes that were showcased along with the building and construction of the first 12 homes in what is known as Pasadena Additions 1 and 2 in Lakewood, which now include over 125 homes. Arthur E. Thomas has designed many commercial structures including the Dr. Pepper headquarters, Baylor University Hospital, the Fair Park Hall of State and Horticulture building, and Children’s Medical Center.

Downing Thomas and Bill Booziotis were principals in one of the most important firms in Dallas. While they successfully designed the Georgian-style Underwood Law Library at SMU, they were modernists at heart. You can see their early residential work along the Katy Trail at 3832 Turtle Creek Drive.

Both Marion Fooshee and James Cheek worked for and became partners at one time with Hal Thomson. Two of the houses that the firm of Thomson and Fooshee are acredited with are 4908 Lakeside and 3712 Alice Circle. The lakeside home is a neo classical landmark of Highland Park elegance and the Alice Circle home across form the park exudes the presence of an English Manor house.

Hal Thomson introduced the architecturally refined mansion to Dallas. He was an architect with a background of privilege, the son of a prominent Texas oil and cattle man. He was educated in elite private and preparatory schools before he attended the University of Texas, followed by an additional bachelor's and master's degree from MIT in 1906. He traveled extensively in Europe and studied its period architecture. His society bearings were furthered when he married the daughter of J. B. Adoue, the prominent banker and civic leader in Dallas in 1914. He designed the Southwestern Life Building and his own home at 3925 Potomac and designed far more elaborate and grander homes on Swiss Avenue and in Highland Park. Many consider the Aldredge House, a French Eclectic style home with Renaissance detailing, the high mark of eclectic architecture by Hal Thomson. The home is owned by the Dallas County Medical Auxiliary. He moved as easily within his profession as president of AIA, as he did in his social circles as a member of the Dallas Country Club. Every Dallas architect who designs eclectic homes has been influenced by Hal Thomson. Hal Thomson homes can be identified by the gentle curves, bowed front porches and an intuitive grace and planned proportion that permeates the structure.

Jim Wiley was the lead designer for Bud Oglesby. As Howard Meyer began designing softer houses influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright, Jim Wiley, in 1956, designed the Kelley house at 4808 Drexel, true to the influence of Walter Gropius and his Bauhaus movement, Eliot Noyse and his approach to furniture and housing and the industrial idiom. This home was designed after the war when there was a movement to build houses in assembly line manner, yet maintain a degree of individuality and personal style. Jim Wiley mentioned Carl Koch, who at MIT introduced pre-fab houses to the mass market, worked in conjunction with Westinghouse and other appliance manufacturers. "An all coordinated construction industry was the goal. Sub-Zero refrigerators are a successful outcome of this movement. Manufactured homes and trailer parks are a less successful outcome," said Jim Wiley.

David Williams is the grandfather of Texas Modern architecture. In the late 1920s, he traveled extensively in Europe admiring the modern masters. When he came back to Dallas, he desired to do for Texas what Frank Lloyd Wright did for the Midwest when he incorporated Texas Modernism in his Prairie style homes. David Williams' inspiration was the handcrafted pioneer homes indigenous to Texas. Continue