Stubbs Home on La Vista Drive. Photography by Renee Umsted.
Preservation Dallas’ 50th Anniversary Home Tour will take participants to four East Dallas neighborhoods.
The self-guided tour also features Oak Cliff’s Kessler Mansion.
Preservation Dallas’ predecessor, the Historic Preservation League, was established in September 1972 by a group of people who wanted to formally protect and preserve historic buildings in Dallas. Its first effort to save buildings in danger occurred in 1974, when the league successfully campaigned to preserve the old Lakewood Library and Trinity Methodist Church.
The 50th anniversary event is scheduled for April 15. Ticket holders will meet at 8:30 a.m. at the Angelika Film Center at Mockingbird Station, at 5321 E. Mockingbird Lane. A keynote lecture by Robbie Briggs, the CEO of Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty, begins at 9 a.m. Dallas-based preservation architect Wilson Fuqua will join Briggs in the program.
The self-guided tour starts at 10 a.m. and ends at 3 p.m.
The Kessler Mansion, built in 1925, is the first home on the tour. It’s located at 1177 Lausanne Ave.
Next, the tour moves to East Dallas. There’s the Tudor Revival-style Stubbs House at 6243 La Vista Drive, near Swiss Avenue, which may have been designed by architect Otto H. Lang, according to the Texas Historical Commission plaque for the home. There’s also a Lakewood home designed by O’Neil Ford; a Frank Welch-designed home overlooking White Rock Lake on West Lawther Drive; and a Craftsman bungalow in Junius Heights.
Ahead of the tour, Preservation Dallas is having a patron party April 13 at the Aldredge House on Swiss Avenue.
Tickets for the tour and party may be purchased here.
