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FLIPPING & PRESERVING
Lake Highlands neighbor flipping area homes and preserving what she can
Story by AUSTIN WOOD
Photography by AMANI SODIQ
THE TEARDOWN IS, AND HAS BEEN FOR THE LAST FEW YEARS, IN LAKE HIGHLANDS.
In neighborhoods like the L Streets and White Rock Valley, the single-story ranch homes that dominate the area are falling in place of imposing, two-story white edifices.
But not everyone is starting from scratch.
McKenzie Schimming Button is a Lake Highlands native and neighbor who buys, remodels and flips homes in the area. Her projects vary widely in scale, but she says she has a vested interest in preserving existing features.
Both of her parents did the exact same thing in the exact same area. Traveling from project to project in Hollywood Hills with her father, with whom she still works, Button grew to appreciate real estate, home design and preservation.
As single-story homes tumble down around the neighborhood, we caught up with McKenzie to learn more about making something old new again.
YOU GREW UP IN THE BUSINESS, CORRECT?
My dad started out as a real estate agent with Henry S. Miller. Like in the ’70s. He did that for a while, and he started buying rental properties, and then he started improving, basically flipping before anybody really did that. He worked a lot in Santa Monica, Hollywood Heights, down there with the historic homes so I remember being brought down there to kind of look at the project and mess around on piles of dirt and all that. My mom would kind of help him come up with a design, and then they would execute it. I sort of started doing it on my own, and then I started helping him. So anyway, we just buy the distressed property and basically improve it from the ground up, and we do it together, and it’s just something that we enjoy doing a lot of times. It’s just about the beauty of it. My dad was a history major, so taking something that’s old and making it look good again.
WHY DOES PRESERVING OLDER HOMES INTEREST YOU SO MUCH?
I don’t know if it was just something that I was kind of raised around, like I said, my parents both appreciate history. I was always taught to appreciate history, and I feel kind of bad saying this, but I really haven’t had as much of an opportunity or ability to preserve things in a way that I wanted to until recently, which is more something that I’m trying to focus on in the last couple years. But I do think Dallas has a really bad track record, in general, of just not appreciating the things that we have and turning them into trash and bulldozing them.
ARE THERE ANY PROJECTS YOU ARE WORKING ON THAT YOU ARE EXCITED ABOUT?
I am really into the one that I’m doing right now. I just started, so there’s not a lot to see. But I haven’t done anything in this vein for a while. I’ve been doing things more traditional-ish, but this one I’m going to do more like, I hate to use the word mid-century modern, because people throw it around, and it’s not really mid-century modern. But that flavor, I want to say ‘groovy,’ is what I want it to be, kind of like fun and a nod back to the time that the building
was created in. That’s actually something that I do focus on a lot in my projects, is I try to find something in the house to start with that kind of speaks to me and tells me, ‘OK, what direction does this need to go?’ Rather than just kind of regurgitating the same white box that everybody else does. That’s not to say that we don’t paint things white, we do, but sometimes they’re not. Sometimes I keep the brick.
WHAT ARCHITECTURAL STYLES DO YOU WORK WITH?
It would be fun to do the Tudor craftsman stuff, but generally, the neighborhoods that we work in, I’m getting the same kind of single-story ranch that can be a bit of a blank slate in a way. It’s so nice when you can have something that is good to keep. Sometimes I get bogged down in the possibility of what could be, and I’ll sit around and be like, ‘Oh, I could do this, or I could do this, or I see something here,’ and I keep it in my head for later, but I get overwhelmed with the preparation of, ‘Oh, what direction am I taking this in?’ And so that’s why sometimes it’s nice to have the architecture kind of speak to you. But generally, there’ll be something in the architecture to help you bring the ranch style into a style. It can be a bit of a bland architecture without being brought to life in one way or another. Although saving the elements of the bathrooms and stuff has kind of helped me perk that up a little bit and keep it in that style. And the nice thing about those is a lot of times they do have the original hardwoods, and we always save those if they’re there.
WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE TO SOMEONE LOOKING TO REMODEL OR ADD ONTO A LAKE HIGHLANDS RANCH HOME?
I think it’s good for people to know that a lot of these houses are from the 1950s and 1960s. I think people resent house flipping a lot because there’s a lot of bad quality flippers. But a lot of these homes need to be at this point, they really need to be worked over. A lot of the gas lines that we see are bad. I mean, a lot of them, most of the wiring, a lot of this stuff is really reaching the end of its useful life. So, just to be cautious about that, and then the space itself really, you can’t go wrong with most of these. It’s nice once you get to a certain building period year, like the ’70s, then you start getting an actual master built, or primary suite built into the floor plan, which, if you want to take on a big remodel, will make the process cheaper and easier. If you work over
in Lake Highlands with more of a traditional ranch house of the ’50s or ’60s, they weren’t built with that. They had three bedrooms, the whole bathroom and then maybe a Jack and Jill. So when you’re biting that off, you’re really looking into something like consolidating the bedrooms or adding space if you want a more modernized layout.
ARE THERE ANY CURRENT DESIGN TRENDS YOU ENJOY?
I know that marble has been king for a while, and I am a big fan. It’s going to stand the test of time. If you choose an actual, real material versus going to a big box or whatever and get a porcelain tile with a fake pattern, you’re gonna get longevity out of stuff like that. I do think people are doing a lot of quartzite right now. I’m kind of concerned that they’re using the same pattern over and over. So I don’t know if I would bite that off in my own house, because it’s expensive, and I fear that it’ll become a kind of capsule specific to a period of time.
AS SOMEONE WHO IS IN REAL ESTATE AND GREW UP IN LAKE
HIGHLANDS, HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THE TEARDOWNS?
So initially, I was really resistant to it because I also went to Lake Highlands, I was born here. My husband went to Lake Highlands as well. So we’re those people and it is hard. I mean, change is hard, and sometimes it does feel like unnecessary waste and kind of taking the character out of an area, but I recognize that a lot of the layouts and a lot of the space constraints are not conducive to what people want at the present time. Sometimes to me, it feels a bit excessive. I enjoy light, I enjoy gardens, I enjoy outdoor space. So it’s sort of hard for me to personally fathom taking a lot and building as much house as possible and not leaving any room outside. But as time goes on, I think there are some other builders who have come in since those who originally started to be a big deal in this area, who do have better taste and better vision for design in general. So it’s a little easier to watch them go down when they come back up.
This interview has been edited for clarity and brevity.
Opposite page: Schimming does a lot of work in East Dallas and Lakewood, but still has a few projects in her neighborhood.
THE YELLOW HOUSE ON GREENVILLE
Sunshine Miniature Trees is a hidden gem in northern Vickery Meadow
Sunshine’s exterior has undergone a bit of a facelift since being taken over by Palles and her husband.
Story by AUSTIN WOOD | Photography by LAUREN ALLEN
Across the street from Texas Health Hospital on Greenville Avenue, tucked between Goody Goody Liquor and a Taco Bell, lies a neighborhood hidden gem full of surprises.
From the front, Sunshine Miniature Trees is unassuming. A small yellow house at the end of a gravel driveway. If there weren’t signs for the business, one could be forgiven for assuming they were on private property.
But as you walk through its door, shelf after shelf of bonsai trees and exotic plants give the sense that this isn’t just any garden store. It’s one of a tiny number of dedicated bonsai nurseries in North Texas, and has been doing business in north Vickery Meadow since 1969.
“It’s pretty special to take a business that’s had suc h a great clientele, that has a piece of history, not just in the physical structure, but the clients, and save it,” says owner Anne Palles. “You kind of feel like you’re doing something great for the community.”
Palles and her husband, Ted, bought the store last year from Richard Sunshine, who had owned the business for more than five decades. She runs the day-to-day operations of the store, which offers an array of bonsai species and styles.
Bonsai (literally translated to ‘planted in a pot’) is the Japanese art of growing and manipulating tree growth through the use of small pots, which restrict root development and in turn, tree growth. Technically, any tree can be
a bonsai, but species like jade and juniper tend to be at the forefront, with Sunshine carrying around 10-12 species at any given time.
“Juniper is our number one seller, but we also call it the highest degree of difficulty,” Palles says. “And so you learn kind of when people walk in and say, ‘I’m a newbie, where should I start?’ You send them to a luzon, a jade or something that doesn’t need a lot of TLC, and you try to steer them away from the juniper. But I’m telling you, so many people are like, ‘I want to try.’”
Maintenance for bonsai can be tricky for newcomers. Different species require varying levels of watering, trimming and even sporadic repotting to stave off root rot. The trees are traditionally meant to be kept outside, and Palles says placement is one of the most important things to consider when picking a bonsai.
In addition to bonsai, Sunshine sells an array of house plants and exotics, including citrus. Since taking over the business, Palles has added a small gift section complete with herbal teas and books on gardening and plant care.
“I’m not going to be competing with any gift stores, but it’s out of a convenience for the clients, especially during the holidays when they’re gift shopping.”
Adding a gift section wasn’t the only change she made as a new owner. Over the years, the property had become increasingly dilapidated. So, the interior of the building was completely gutted by Palles and her husband, who added
hardwood floors, additional windows, a new foundation and industrial walls that can easily be washed off after a long day of potting.
Outside, Palles has demolished the sprawling shed that had been Sunshine’s nursery, which she refers to as the “dark cave.” The shed will soon be supplanted by an 800-square-foot L-shaped greenhouse, which Palles says will have an open-air courtyard and exposed patio. She will also put in flowering plants around the outdoors portion of the garden, which is in need of a topsoil upgrade.
“I love flowering plants,” she says. “I’m such a sucker for gardenias.”
Palles plans to begin hosting bonsai classes this spring. Sunshine and his son will both make appearances leading the classes, which will be a welcome sight for many of the store’s longtime customers.
Serving those same longtime customers is Palles’ favorite aspect of running the store. As someone whose mother owned two miniature Jade trees, she understands just how much Sunshine’s miniature trees mean to some.
“You want to hold on to your loved ones who aren’t here anymore. And so when I see people that come in and have those stories, it’s nice to be trusted, to be a part of that happy emotion. Tears of joy, yeah? But yeah, that’s probably the best part, and that we saved this little house, and that people still get to come in and feel that presence that they had with their mom or dad or grandparent even, is pretty cool.”
The store also carries speciality bonsai that have been “styled.”
T HE HOUSE T HAT
B ELONG S TO I TSELF
The Moss House, one of the most historic properties in Lake Highlands, has been recently renovated with an emphasis on respecting the past
Story by AUSTIN WOOD
Photography by MICHAEL HUNTER
As Katherine Allen turned onto Moss Circle Drive, she didn’t know what to expect.
She made her way to the end of the street, arriving at a dead-end. As she approached the circle, it appeared seemingly out of nowhere.
The Moss House.
Standing on the right-hand side of the elongated cul-de-sac, the venerable Colonial home is as stately as it is well-preserved.
“I called (my husband), and I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, we have to look at this house,’” Allen says. “The thing that’s so interesting about it is it just kind of pops out of nowhere. You don’t really realize it’s tucked back here, but it has so much rich history.”
The Allens bought the house in 2020 before heavily renovating it and finally moving in in 2022. But the remodel wasn’t about transforming the home. Instead, the Allens restored the home with a refreshed interior while staying true to its history.
The home’s dining room can accomodate 20 people, calling back to its days as a high society weekend retreat.
“We just believe very strongly that this house belongs to itself. We see ourselves as stewards of the home. We don’t necessarily view ourselves as people who have a right to come in and make overwhelming changes. My husband and I are very committed to the history of the house, and everything we did was with the intention of doing right by the house. I hope we own it for a long time, and I would love it if my daughters ended up taking it over, but at the same time, we didn’t want to be the people that made some radical change that altered the history of the home.”
The Moss House’s history goes further back than most homes in Lake Highlands. The area surrounding the home was originally part of a 400-acre farm belonging to Andrew Sloan Jackson, who built a small homestead on the property.
As the story goes, wealthy Dallas oilman Harry S. Moss purchased the land after coming into possession of a hereford bull at the State Fair of Texas. He transformed the property into his country estate, eponymously named “Moss Haven” (yes, that’s where the name comes from). Moss and his wife, Florence, built on the existing farmhouse to create the present four-bedroom, four-bathroom structure.
The Moss weekend retreat was the epitome of high-class country estates at the time. Complete with a formal dining room sized for 20 people, stables, sitting rooms and even an elevator, the home was featured in Architectural Digest’ s January 1958 issue. Much of the estate was eventually sold to developers and the City of Dallas, which converted 279 acres of the property into a park as part of then-Park and Recreation Director L.B. Houston’s greenbelt plan for the city.
After falling into disrepair, the house was purchased and heavily renovated by the Jamieson family in the 1970s. The family occupied the home until it was sold to the Allens in 2020.
“We were able to host a ton of stuff here and kind of reincorporate the house into the neighborhood,” Allen says. “The Jamiesons hadn’t had young children in the house, and Mrs. Jamieson was here alone for a really good chunk of time, and it kind of became this like folk tale to the kids, where they thought it was the principal’s house and they thought it was haunted, and all these other stories that kids come up with on the playground. And so it’s been fun, kind of bringing it back to life with little kids.”
The Allens partnered with Taylor McCabe of Mosaic Building Co. on the remodel. Beautiful hardwood floors, preserved underneath carpet for decades, were uncovered and finally allowed to shine. New fixtures were added, the bar received an update and most walls were repainted with neutral, demure tones.
In the living room, an original fireplace sits at the center of the home’s sitting area. Allen painted it black during the remodel but says it was still important to respect the past and maintain it.
The formal entryway, which Allen believes could possibly be the remains of the original farmhouse that sat on the land, was painted a deep teal, and the formal dining room was repapered in a floral print.
“There just aren’t dining rooms like this, and it is such a focal point in the house. And I told (our interior designer) I wanted the entry hall to feel like you’re walking into a jewel box, like you just open the door and it’s like, warm and cozy, and it’s dark, and then you walk into the dining room, and it’s this explosion of color and fun.”
The home’s kitchen was completely redone, with a large marble island and countertops complemented by a muted green tone and bronze fixtures.
Upstairs, each of the bedrooms has its own bath, and the master suite, originally built for Moss, has its own sitting area.
Katherine says the family enjoys the home and uses it for entertaining. It was featured as a stop on the Holiday in the Highlands Home Tour this last year and drew large crowds, with the Women’s League needing a traffic management plan for the cul-de-sac to keep cars moving.
A sign in the dining room reads WAML, which stands for “With All My Love.” Mr. Jamieson signed off his letters to his family with the phrase, and the sign is a nod to the family and the house they lived in for over 40 years. It’s still very much the home they lived in 1975, which is exactly what Katherine and Ryan intended.
“We wanted to make sure that if for some reason, the Mosses or the Jamiesons walked through the house, we would want them to be proud of it.”
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Where beer drinkers and coffee sippers “collide”
Story
by AUSTIN WOOD | Photography by KATHY TRAN
vendors.
The atmosphere at Civil Pour is a crossroads: beer drinkers and coffee sippers, social butterflies and laptop-hidden workaholics. It’s a reflection of the business’s something-for-everyone model, and owner Chad Montgomery says even he has trouble putting a label on it.
Civil Pour opened in The Hill Shopping Center in 2018 offering artisanal coffee and craft beer. As one might expect, the combination creates an eclectic atmosphere filled with a wide array of patrons.
“It’s hard to say ‘I want it to be one thing for everybody,’ because it’s really a community space,” Montgomery says. “We have lots of people that come in and work and study, but then we also have groups that meet up, and sometimes that’s a group of beer drinkers in the evening, or sometimes it’s a company off-site meeting, and we get a lot of that.”
Montogmery started the business with his wife, Nellie. They had previously launched Big Texas Beer Fest in 2011. Coffee was also an interest, so the pair decided to combine both into the new venture.
Since then, Civil Pour has become a cornerstone tenant at The Hill and expanded to a second location in Richardson.
Beer accounts for 10-15% of sales “in a good month,” food represents around 25% and coffee sales comprise the rest of the business.
Montgomery says he didn’t want a full kitchen but “had to have food with beer drink-
ers in the mix.” His business sells an array of ready-made paninis and baked goods from three local vendors, including Liteful Foods, a gluten-free exclusive baker.
Civil Pour’s tap list is a rotating collection of 25 drafts from local, U.S. and international brewers. Local favorites like Lakewood Brewing Co.’s Temptress and Peticolas Velvet Hammer can almost always be found alongside brews from Colorado, Oregon and the Northeast. Most of the curating is done by staff, Montgomery says, and tap lines are cleaned every two weeks to ensure the highest-quality draft.
For certain drafts, it’s just better to look outside the city, state and even country, Montgomery says.
“We’ll pick some international favorites too,” he says. “Because, in some cases, like Belgian beers in particular, nobody really makes a Belgian beer exactly like the Belgians do, and it’s just that flavor is hard to get. It’s hard to replicate.”
His drip coffee is pour-over, which means hot water is trickled over coffee grinds in a filter before dripping to the bottom of the pot to create the finished product. It’s typically richer and features heightened flavor profiles. The staff uses a machine called Pour Steady to ensure that every cup is brewed the exact same way every time.
“And we’re really, really diligent about the coffees that we put on what we call a slow bar,” he says. “I mean, we’ve probably sampled
170 different roasters over a period of time, and maybe 10% of those are the ones that we really love.”
Beans are sourced from local vendors such as Noble Coyote Coffee Roasters in addition to countries like Costa Rica and Ethiopia.
Espresso-based beverage offerings lean heavily on traditional Italian influences. Lattes, cappuccinos and cortados are prepared with respect to Old World formulas, which cuts against the corporate coffee grain, Montgomery says.
“A lot of people think a macchiato is always a caramel macchiato, but a real Italian macchiato is just two ounces of espresso and just a dollop of milk, and that’s it,” Montgomery says.
There’s still plenty of syrup and experimentation on the beverages menu. The 1885, an ode to Dr. Pepper’s founding date, comes with a double shot of Civil Pour’s custom espresso blend, pour-over coffee and Dr. Pepper. Montgomery gives the credit for the house special Warlock, a Mexican-mocha-inspired mix of espresso, pour-over coffee, chocolate syrup, housemade vanilla, Vietnamese cinnamon, cayenne and steamed milk, to Indianapolis-area coffee house Quills.
Looking forward, Montgomery says that his business may look to roast its own beans in the future.
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2 FAMILIES | 1 HOUSE
After Christie Lipschitz took over a home from 50-year residents, she connected with the family to return some memories
Story by AUSTIN WOOD
Photography by LAUREN ALLEN
Afamily home is more than just a house. It’s the venue that remains constant even as the people within change and grow older. Memories of baby showers, family meals, homework, movie nights, prom pictures, engagement parties and retirement celebrations are all made in a family home and remain even after the house is sold.
That’s probably what made it so special when Christie Lipschitz connected with the previous owners of her White Rock Valley mid-century modern home. Johnny and Joanie Williams lived in the house for over 50 years and raised their children there. Lipschitz bought the home from the Williams children after Johnny and Joanie’s passing, and when her real estate agent told her the family would like to meet her and her husband, she jumped at the opportunity.
“It was really, really special. You just tell right away that they were very warm, they were very loving,” Lipschitz says. “And they told us how much this home had meant to them, because John and Joanie lived here for 50 years, and so they told us a little bit about them. Since we’ve lived here, though, we’ve heard so many stories about John and Joanie.”
Mr. and Mrs. Williams were apparently the heartbeat of the street, hosting cocktail parties, putting out reindeer food come Christmastime and taking younger families under their wing as they aged. But Lipschitz didn’t just hear stories about their predecessors.
She saw them in her basement.
A box of home movies had been left in the home’s basement when the Williamses moved out. Lipschitz called the family to hand over the footage. Having heard all the stories about Johnny and Joanie made her next meeting with the Williams family all the more special, she says.
“We started to learn that it was just a very special, loving family. And so the next time that the Williamses came over so we could give them the film, it was just so special,” Lipschitz says. “We were able to say just how many stories we’d heard about their mom and their dad, and that we just think that the love in the house is something that doesn’t go away, right? And I think it was very special to them too, even though we changed a lot.”
The kitchen has access to the home’s basement, where Lipshitz found the home movies.
‘A lot’ is an apt way of putting it. After moving in in 2018, Lipschitz and her husband gradually transformed the home with a series of renovations to its exterior and interior. Walls were knocked down, carpets ripped up and even a pickleball court was added to the home’s expansive backyard.
“I’m glad that we didn’t jump as soon as we moved in to make all of the changes, because we didn’t really know what we wanted or needed yet,” she says. “Every year we do a few projects, and every year, the house changes a little bit, but we’re able to kind of grow with the house.”
One of the biggest changes was opening up the home’s living area. A small sunroom had previously separated it from the back patio before it was opened up to expand the living room. Another wall, facing the kitchen, was knocked down, creating a breathable, open living area bounded by large windows.
The four-bed home is split-level, with a small basement used as a media room, living area and bedrooms, dining room and a loft all stacked together. Lipschitz, an interior designer herself, has decorated the home to match its mid-century look. Alongside some modern and reproduction items, she’s also brought in vintage pieces to brighten the space. A number of antique rugs and runners line most floors.
“I think this is true even especially in a new home, if you bring in some old things, like vintage rugs, older furniture, it just helps kind of lend this sense of authenticity to it.”
Since moving in, Lipschitz has updated lighting fixtures in the kitchen and hallways to include hanging lights to replace recessed lighting. The home also came with built-in wall lights, which she has restored and added mirrored copper glass to.
The living room features preexisting wooden cabinets, shelves and even a bookcase that serves as a media console. Its terrazzo floors were one of the main draws, Lipschitz says.
“When we bought the house, people were asking, ‘Oh, are you gonna, you know, tear them all out?’ And we’re like, ‘No, we have a vision for it.’ But they’re so fun. Our kids skate on them.”
Outside, Lipschitz replaced the patio’s stucco floor with saltillo tile, which helps in the hotter months, when the family enjoys the pool.
Most of the left side of the home’s backyard was originally occupied by a large storage shed. She and her husband demolished the shed, expanded the existing slab and added a net and playing surface to create a backyard pickleball court.
“Whenever there’s nice weather and we’re not working, we’re like, ‘Okay, let’s go play pickleball,’ and we can go play for 15 minutes. It’s so much fun. And we never would have had that experience if we kept the shed up. When we moved in, we hadn’t even heard of pickleball.”
Lipschitz says she and her husband plan on staying in the home for the long haul. It will become her family home just as it was for the Williamses, her encounter with whom she recalls fondly.
“We’re just very grateful for them too, for showing us that they appreciated the changes that we had made while still honoring the home. Even things like those geckos out there that are on the trees. Those are some things that I think Joanie just loved things like that, and so we thought they were cool. So we’re gonna keep them. Kind of all these little things that were part of that family’s history and story here in this house for 50 years, it’s really neat to still see some of those things. So it’s the things that live on.”
The homes dining room look out towards the picklball court, which Lipschitz recently added.
Among other things, Lipschitz preserved the home’s original door and terrazzo floors.
TOP 2024 Re ltors
The Advocate’s annual Top Realtor special section recognizes the Top 5% of all active neighborhood Realtors, determined by reported sales volume.*
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AMY TIMMERMAN
Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate
BETH RIDER
Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate
NICOLE THOMAS
Compass Real Estate Texas, LLC
ROBIN MOSS NORCROSS
Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate
DONALD WRIGHT
Ebby Halliday, Realtors
ELIZABETH SELZER
Ebby Halliday, Realtors
ALYSSA RAMSEY
Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate
MAX DUNHAM
Ebby Halliday, Realtors
JAMIE ADLER
Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate
SUSAN BALDWIN
Allie Beth Allman & Associates
ORACLE BATIE-SMITH
Compass Real Estate Texas, LLC
KYLE BAUGH
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MID-CENTURY MEADOW
Highland Meadows is one of the most well-preserved pockets of mod architecture in Dallas
TStoryby AUSTIN WOOD | Photographyby LAUREN ALLEN
ucked into a quiet eastern corner of our neighborhood, abutting rolling hills overlooking Dixon Branch Creek, lies Highland Meadows, one of the most well-preserved pockets of mid-century modern architecture in Dallas.
Comprising 1,390 homes and 17 subdivisions, the neighborhood sits shaded by towering pecan trees, and nature feels just a little bit closer. A
closer connection to the outdoors is integral to this style, which bridges the gap between nature and a home’s interior through intentional placement of large, floor-to-ceiling windows.
Mid-century modern architecture, as the name suggests, was developed and popularized in the postwar years of the 20th century. The style is defined by clean lines, wood, indoor-outdoor living, flow between spaces and an emphasis on functionality.
A ROLLING SUBDEVELOPMENT OFMEADOWS&HILLS
The name “Highland Meadows” is a recent term for the neighborhood, adopted by neighbors in 2006 when the neighborhood association formed. The name is a reference to the rolling meadows that John Preston Travis II, alongside Consulting Architects Viktor and Aladar Olgyay, developed into the Mediterranean Gardens and Sylvania Dells subdivisions in 1950.
Alongside Lakeland Hills and Meadowbrook Village, the four subdivisions represent the bulk of Highland Meadows’ mid-century homes.
“I know Bill Travis very well. He and his wife, Jane, and I know that when he was a teenager, his father identified this property and wanted to develop it,” says longtime Mediterranean Gardens resident Robyn Flatt. “He was a contractor and a developer, and I’m not sure what all, but anyway, they were very interested in the idea of living with nature and welcoming it into kind of your daily living.”
Mediterranean Gardens, where Flatt lives, was the first subdevelopment in Highland Meadows.
Flatt has lived in Mediterranean Gardens since 1975. She is the daughter of local arts legend Paul Baker, who founded the Dallas Theater Center and was the first director of Booker T. Washington School for the Performing and Visual Arts. Flatt is an artist herself, having worked for the Theater Center early in her career before founding the Dallas Children’s Theater in 1984 and leading the organization for close to four decades before retiring in 2022.
Flatt was initially hesitant to move to Highland Meadows as it meant a longer commute to the Theater Center. Her late husband, Richard, however, was an architect who fell in love with their eventual home at first sight when visiting the Levinson family, the previous owners the home.
“It’s very structural. I mean, he appreciated the mathematical relationships between the different spaces, and he recognized that also in their house,” she says. “And I think he recognized that in this whole neighborhood.”
When the Levinsons moved to California, Robyn and Richard bought the three-bedroom house for $44,000 in 1975.
As you enter Flatt’s home, rooms flow seamlessly from one to another. The kitchen, living room, dining room and a piano room sit divided by a partition wall that doesn’t quite reach the ceiling, creating a sense of unity and oneness while still maintaining the integrity of each space. Floor-to-ceiling windows complement the prevailing clerestories that flood the house with natural light.
“I love sitting right there and watching the leaves,” Flatt says. “It’s like a Japanese painting, the Japanese like to take a little narrow, little slice of something.”
The home is splashed with art and signs from wall to wall, with few spaces remaining unadorned. Play posters, pottery, statuettes and folk art abound. Paintings by a Japanese artist, given to Flatt’s husband by way of payment, decorate the walls of the home’s dining room, which also features an original theater seat from the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Dallas Theater Center.
Flatt raised two children in the home. Kristi Cardwell, her daughter, who also works in the fine arts, says growing up in the house impacted her relation to space and design.
“I didn’t have the exact understanding I have now, and certainly with the recent information we’ve gotten, I can better quantify what I feel in my heart and what just feels like welcoming spaces that I feel happy in,” Cardwell says. “But definitely, I mean growing up, walking out of my bedroom door and seeing all the way through the house and seeing the trees and seeing as the light changes and how it hits those trees out there, and the different angles that light comes in was very much a big pull for the house we chose and that we live in now.”
And where does she live now?
Right down the street.
She and her husband, Andy, live on Eden Roc Circle. Cardwell is seemingly one of a few residents who returned to the neighborhood as adults, and she says she feels very fortunate to be a lifelong Highland Meadows Resident.
“I feel very lucky. I think it was quite amazing that we were able to get the house and for our girls to be able to run around and have a lot of that connection with family being close and a different kind of space,” Cardwell says. “The design of each house is different. I just love our neighbors.”
Art dots the home, reflecting Flatt’s life and career.
KICKING NATURE OUT
TOINVITEITINAGAIN
When Jeff and Stacy Keller first saw what would become their Highland Meadows home in the early 2000s, they were shocked.
The previous owner had let the home fall into a serious state of disrepair. On top of hordes of batteries, light bulbs and other assorted items stacked ceiling-high from wall to wall, the home was infested with fleas and vermin.
“It was an absolutely deplorable condition, like really, really, really bad,” Jeff says. “No indoor plumbing, there was a hole in the roof, holes in the floor, everything. And the house was a disaster.”
Jeff and Stacy, despite the home’s condition, put a strong offer on the house that was accepted, with the previous owner choosing them for their interest in restoring the 2,645-square-foot three-bedroom home.
That was probably the easiest part of the process.
While renting a house off of Mockingbird Lane, Jeff worked tirelessly to make the home livable after work. He tore out the kitchen, replaced previously black-stained flooring with vibrant hardwood floors and built a sprawling backyard deck with views overlooking the Dixon Branch. The home’s existing drainage pipes had degraded considerably over the years, which presented him with one of the toughest challenges of the renovation process.
“I was gonna plow all that out, and I did. I remember laying that new pipe in there. It was about 112 degrees in August, and it was raining, and it was like, ‘Oh, this is so miserable.’ Putting that stuff down deep, I was six feet down, it was just humid and sticky and gross. I was like, ‘Oh, this is absolutely horrible, dangerous.’
Plumbing that pipe into the main surface drain and putting all that in there, it was just like, ‘Oh, God, that was the worst part.’”
But, after months of hard work, the mid-century aficionados finally had their dream home. Jeff managed to save the home’s original theater-style dimmers and touch lights.
Garages are rare in mid-century homes, with carports being the norm. The Kellers’ home, however, has a one-car garage — a lucky break as they own two classic Chevrolets, including one that matches the home’s baby blue and gray exterior.
Windows at the front of the Kellers’ home are limited to clestories, with floor-to-ceiling windows representing the majority of the backwards-facing wall space. It gives the family privacy from the street while still allowing nature to pour in from the back.
“I like how everything’s kind of closed and private in the front, you know. Nobody can really see in or see what we’ve got or what we’re doing, but it’s just all completely open in the back, so we don’t have windows or curtains or whatever,” Stacy says.
The back windows look out toward a heavily-wooded portion of the Dixon Branch. Beneath the deck, their backyard declines gently at first, then drastically toward the creek. Jeff is building a walkway to the bottom of the decline from his studio, which he added onto the patio within the last few years.
Bringing nature into the home will always be one of the most foundational aspects of mid-century architecture.
“We sit at the kitchen table, and we can watch nature and birds and squirrels and animals and just be completely entertained for a long time, especially in the snow,” he says. “We’ve seen so many things out there. We’ve seen little sparrow hawks or American kestrels catch a bird and eat it right there. On Christmas Eve, I was like, ‘Oh, my God.’ It was horrific, and it was terrible, and it was wonderful. If that makes sense.”
The Kellers are avid collectors, amassing everything from blown glass to classic cars.
Mid-century modern furniture has become increasingly popular in recent years, with The Washington Post calling it “the style that won’t die.”
But Kevin Shepard beat the trend by a few years.
“I bought this stereo, and it was a mid-century modern piece, and that was my first real interaction with knowing what mid-century modern was,” Shepard says. “I knew I liked the style of it.”
From there, Shepard became an ardent fan of vintage mid-century furniture and eventually architecture.
He and his partner, Travis Williams, rushed home from family outings to put in an offer when their agent informed them that a Highland Meadows home was available. Shepard had continued to collect mid-century furniture in the meantime, so fortunately enough, there wasn’t much to be bought.
“We did it in reverse,” Williams says. “Most people buy a home and then furnish it. We sort of bought all the furnishings and then bought the house to go with it.”
Eclectic light fixtures, blown glass, vintage artifacts and coffee tables are scattered throughout the home. Most of Shepard’s remaining collection is kept in a storage unit, from which he occasionally resells.
“In our house, the majority of everything in there is truly vintage,” Shepard says. “I don’t like to buy new stuff. I don’t think the quality is there and the style. To me, some stuff is good reproduction, but a lot of it you can kind of tell, ‘Hey, that’s just a modern version of the mid-century.’”
With the home, Shepard and Williams have tried to “recreate a slice of Palm Springs here in Dallas.” To that end, they’ve planted palm trees in their backyard and commissioned a poolside mural that calls back to arid Southern California.
The community found within the neighborhood is one of the couple’s favorite parts of living in Highland Meadows, they say.
“It’s been interesting to see not only the neighborhood improve from people moving in and updating and improving homes, but also seeing the young people move in and seeing the vibrancy of the neighborhood, people walking, people getting to know one another. It’s kind of old-fashioned in that way, because the neighbors know each other.”
PRESERVING THEMEADOWS
From May 6 to July 6, Mediterranean Gardens will be featured in an exhibition titled Preserving Tomorrow: Rediscovering Dallas’ Mediterranean Gardens Neighborhood at the Architecture and Design Exchange downtown. The exhibition will explore the original vision of J.P. Travis II and the original architects involved in Mediterranean Gardens through archival architectural models, detailed plans, photographs, sales brochures and news articles. Regardless of its influence on other parts of Dallas, it appears Highland Meadows will continue to be a bastion of mid-century gems in our neighborhood. Teardowns have plagued the neighborhood considerably less than other parts of Lake Highlands, and new families restore and preserve the homes that make it unique. Highland Meadows will remain one of the, if not the most, important cradles for an iconic architectural style in Dallas.
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