![]() ![]() “I almost hate to drive down the street because they’re disappearing so fast,” Winters says. Other Dilbecks have not fared so well, including a run of 20 houses on Bryn Mawr Drive designed for the developer Sam Lobello. Beal had purchased the Turtle Creek property for more than $50 million, only to replace it. Hill, architect of the former Dallas municipal building on Harwood Street. Its beginning might be pinpointed to 2017, when the financier Andy Beal ordered the demolition of the former Trammell Crow residence, a 105-year-old, 10,000-square-foot Tudor mansion designed by C.D. It is an obscene trend: mansions being torn down to be replaced by even larger mansions. “The wealth has gotten so great, people think nothing of scrapping what’s there,” says Good. The modern architecture of the midcentury is particularly vulnerable, due to its modesty in both scale and presumption, but even the grandest homes in the most traditional of styles are subject to destruction. Bitter irony: its replacement, designed by Bernbaum/Magadini Architects and now rising, is much in the spirit of Ford’s original - and so, a needless loss. It was razed in 2016 by auto dealer Lute Riley, who then sold the prime lot on Armstrong Avenue for a profit. The essential weakness of the proposed ordinances, none of which would block a determined demolisher, suggests the difficulty of passing any protective legislation in the conservative Park Cities, where property rights are sacrosanct.Īnd yet, the proposed legislation might have saved O’Neil Ford’s Penson House of 1954, a 9,800-square-foot example of the architect’s distinctively Texan modern language. ![]() The group would like the Park City municipalities to adopt three ordinances: a 60-day demolition delay, which would allow advocates time to bring recalcitrant owners to reason a requirement that any demolition permit be accompanied by a building permit, to stop the clearing of sites by speculators and the destruction of homes to create enlarged lawns (both persistent issues) and a tree ordinance requiring the preservation of any tree over 24 inches in diameter not within the footprint of the new residence. “We want to use the list to gain some traction to get new landmark ordinances passed,” says architect Larry Good, a founding principal of the firm Good Fulton Farrell and chair of the selection committee. To combat the epidemic of destruction, the advocacy group Preservation Park Cities is publishing a list of the “Top 100″ historic and architecturally significant homes in Highland Park and University Park. ![]()
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