This 114-year-old school building in the neighborhood could be your next residence
East Dallas has its fair share of homogenous modern apartments popping up, increasing density in a gentrifying neighborhood while displacing much of its original…
Historic Preservations
#FBF The battle for the soul of Little Forest Hills
Little Forest Hills is the funky little brother to Forest Hills’ grand estates just east of Garland Road. The neighborhood prides itself on being…
Two historic East Dallas mansions host lectures this month
The Friends of the Aldredge House (FOAH),a nonprofit organization that hopes to financially support the historic home, is launching its first educational event this…
The still-vacant Lakewood Theater has another new real estate broker
Lakewood Theater, a historic Dallas landmark that has been vacant since January 2015, is now on its third real estate brokerage firm in the…
Bowling, movies and live music all possible tenants for Lakewood Theater
Since Lakewood Theater’s final performance in January 2015, the building has sat vacant. Due to requests for and approval of landmark status, the iconic…
Advocate Giveaway: 4 pairs of tickets
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Can a building earn landmark status after demolition permits are filed? ‘This is sort of new territory’
The City of Dallas faced a new question this week: Can a building be saved by earning landmark status after the demolition permits have…
Lakewood Theater spire: A bird’s-eye view of the neighborhood
This drone video taken from the top of the Lakewood Theater spire was posted on YouTube by Paul Manak and called to our attention…
A peek inside the O’Neil Ford house at 3201 Wendover in Lakewood
One of our March stories focused on the second owners of the Lakewood house O’Neil Ford designed in 1939. Alfred and Juanita Bromberg commissioned the…
How can two Lakewood houses with acres between them be ‘neighbors’?
Stanley Marcus and Alfred Bromberg became neighbors in the late 1930s, after the two men commissioned architects to construct their homes on adjacent ~10-acre properties in Lakewood, “which was…
Reflection on photographing a ‘wild’ yet ‘tamed’ 10 acres of land in the middle of Lakewood
Jenifer McNeil Baker, a Lakewood resident and talented photographer who has donated her time and services to the Lakewood Home Festival the last few…
Nominate an endangered building for Preservation Dallas list
The Lakewood Theater is on its way to becoming a protected historic landmark in Dallas after recent interior demolition and uncertainty. But the old…
