2022 April Lakewood/East Dallas Advocate

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Congratulations to our

2021 Top Realtors LAKEWOOD, LAKE HIGHLANDS & EAST DALLAS

Russ Brown

Chris Hickman

Elizabeth Selzer

Peter Loudis

Jan Stell

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Chris Hickman Group

Advocate Top 25 Selzer & Stell Group

214-215-4269 peterloudis@ebby.com

Advocate Top 25 Selzer & Stell Group

469-569-1106 chris@chrishickmangroup.com

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Carolyn Albers Black 214-675-2089 carolynablack@ebby.com

Rob Schrickel Brown-Qualls & Schrickel Group 214-801-1795 robschrickel@ebby.com

Shelby James

Mina Shamsa

Max Dunham

214-533-7650 shelbyjames@ebby.com

The Shamsa Group

214-336-3623 maxdunham@ebby.com

469-569-9269 mina@ebby.com

Danna Morguloff-Hayden

Konnie Clayton

Jay Forrester

Edwina Dye

The Morguloff Team

Sinnott, Clayton & Dybvad Group

469-867-7302 jayforrester@ebby.com

214-674-3937 edwinadye@ebby.com

214-533-3217 dannam-h@ebby.com

214-708-5233 konnieclayton@ebby.com

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Martha Morguloff

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LAKEWOOD ADVOCATE VOL.29 NO.4

PROFILE 14 5 Mockingbird artists DINING 28 Thunderbird Pies HISTORY 56 Ford in East Dallas FEATURES 22 Swiss Avenue home 48 The Magdalen House 76 West Lawther living COLUMNS 86 Coexisting with critters 92 Worship SPECIAL SECTION 62 Top Realtors

A collage made of Laura McCavit’s grandmother’s brooches at a home on Swiss Avenue. Photography by Jessica Turner.

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TOP BILLING Superstars, all: In a year like no other, these agents like no others propelled the top luxury brokerage in North Texas to new heights in 2021. That’s what the best do: They raise the bar. To every agent and every client: Thank you.

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Malinda Arvesen

Laura Crowl

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Eyecon Studios on restoring murals at iconic 5 Mockingbird apartments › Interview by TINA-TIEN NGUYEN | Portrait by EMIL LIPPE

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rtist Jeff Garrison was on a job site when he received a call from neighborhood architect Paul Chapell. “He called us, driving by it, in a panic. We were at the studio; we had no idea what was going on. He was just on the phone telling us: ‘They’re painting over your murals!’ I was like: ‘Come on.’ I just laughed and didn’t initially believe it.” But Chapell was correct: The seven gigantic, iconic murals Garrison and Chris Arnold had painted on the exterior of the 5 Mockingbird apartment complex were being painted over by a construction crew. The colorful murals adorning the building, which is between Mockingbird Station and Kroger on the north side of Mockingbird Lane, were disappearing behind a solid wall of beige paint. Arnold and Garrison recently celebrated the 30th anniversary of their company, Eyecon Studios. Five years have passed since the original murals disappeared, and five months have passed since the artists completed the creation of a smaller version of what was lost. The new murals aren’t replicas of the previous ones, but they carry the same essence and theme of art deco, or what the artists like to call now, “contemporary deco.” The art is meant to represent Dallas culture, diversity and history, Garrison and Arnold say. DO YOU RECALL HOW YOU INITIALLY FELT WHEN YOU REALIZED THE MURALS WERE DISAPPEARING? ARNOLD: Chapell took this very personally, as he was the one who was responsible for this apartment being branded with paintings. At the time, I was thinking that if someone were to tell someone to come to 5 Mockingbird, people would have to be giving out the actual street address since nobody would know where to go. It was no longer going to be a landmark in Dallas. We were kind of the city’s navigational aides. GARRISON: We were just feeling the lines of grief at that point, where at first it’s disbelief, and then there was anger, disgust, sadness. ARNOLD: Yeah, basically the seven stages of death. GARRISON: It basically came down to the final stage of acceptance. There was nothing we could do about it. It wasn’t our property anymore.

THERE WAS A REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS PUT OUT TO RESTORE THE MURALS. HOW DID YOU GUYS HEAR ABOUT IT? ARNOLD: The first time we did the original murals, which was a decade ago, the architects just tapped us directly since they wanted to work with us. Two ownerships later, the new owners didn’t exactly know who we were. SPI Advisory LLC , the new oweners, knew a little bit about the original art, and they knew that they wanted the art back. So they just put out a request for qualifications out to the masses; it was just open to anybody. Another artist friend of ours saw an article in the Lakewood/ East Dallas Advocate about the requests for artists. He called us and said, “Are you guys involved in this?” And we had no idea about it. So I had to call the new owners’ office and introduce ourselves and request the information that they were sending

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to artists. We told them that we would like to throw our hat in the ring and have a shot, but they weren’t guaranteeing us the job. They were just saying sure, we could just apply like everybody else. GARRISON: Yeah, they also had some other plans for some other areas they had talked about at one point, and they were trying to figure out if it was going to be the same artist group, or if they were going to bring in a bunch of different artists and somehow try to tie it all together. ARNOLD: Which is really admirable of them, because they weren’t bound to do any of that work. They didn’t have to put any of the artwork back, and their point of view was basically they were giving a gift back to the city that was taken away from the community. DESCRIBE THE STEPS OF HOW THE CURRENT MURALS WERE PAINTED OVER THE BEIGE COLORING. WAS IT EASY? GARRISON: You know, the deal we had with the ownership is that they were going to send somebody out to come power wash the surfaces so that the paint would properly adhere to it. So Chris came out to make sure that they had done their job, and he noticed that there’s this blue spot way up high. So he took a picture of it, and when he came back, we realized it looked like one of the colors from the original murals. Chris went back up there with a ladder and some duct tape to see if the new paint would properly adhere, and so he did the test … and it just peeled it right off to the original mural. ARNOLD: So we went back to the current ownership, and said we weren’t going to spend the time doing it, and it wasn’t worth it since the new paint wasn’t going to stick. So they had to completely strip the whole front face of the building. They were really the heroes of this entire story, because they didn’t have to put art back on the building. WHAT ARE THE THEMES AND MESSAGES IN THIS NEW MURAL? GARRISON: We wanted it to be bold, to where you could actually see if you didn’t have time to slow down to discover all of the details. We wanted to make sure that the murals represented things that are important to the city as a whole, to the demographic of Lakewood and East Dallas as well. ARNOLD: If you take a closer look at the bottle cap, you will see numerals 10, 2 and 4, which is meant to represent “Dr Pepper time.” Only veteran Dallasites would remember that. Artists through the centuries, they truly are the lens of the community. As artists, that’s our role. All the information gets synthesized through their eyes and put there, because these images reflect what’s going on right now. That is what these murals represent to us. HOW ARE THE MURALS DIFFERENT THIS TIME AROUND COMPARED TO THE ORIGINAL MURALS A DECADE AGO? ARNOLD: This time around, we only had two areas and mu-

The “contemporary deco” murals at 5 Mockingbird were painted by artists at Eyecon Studios. Photography by Jessica Turner.

rals to work on, so our scope was a bit more limited. Cultural diversity is really important in the community and as artists, our job is to reflect that. So in an effort to have some culture and mix it up, we wanted to have an African-American woman and an ambiguous-looking male figure. The most important thing from a design standpoint was that they wanted this to be in art deco nature with a modern flair. But to me, art deco is all about strength and stylized design, and that’s exactly what these two figures are. For the female figure, I wanted her to look powerful. I wanted someone to look at that and think strength, power and beauty before Black or white. WHAT’S THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE MALE FIGURE? GARRISON: The male is cut with this dramatic blue. He’s got this dark hair, and we wanted him to be slightly ambiguous. He could be white, Hispanic or multi-ethnic. On the original murals, we had more of a chance to add African-American and white figures on there, different races and different people. But in this case, there was only space for two murals and figures we could work with. WHY IS IT THAT THERE’S ONLY SPACE FOR TWO MURALS THIS TIME AROUND? GARRISON: It’s just mostly budgeting, cost-related. WHAT MAKES THE NEW MURALS ICONIC? ARNOLD: The fact that it’s art deco in nature and that is important to me because I am a Dallas native. I grew up going to the Dr Pepper plant, and I thought it was a very beautiful building. So the fact that they kept some art deco spirit in

this property is a big thing. Secondly, it’s considered a Dallas landmark and a gift back to the community. It’s also nice to hear from people coming up to us and identifying the mural in some way that was personal to them. Everyone always has a story that starts out with, “Hey, when I was a kid,” and they basically take ownership of the mural, and that’s very rewarding to us. GARRISON: Yeah, that’s one of the more enjoyable aspects to this type of art is that it’s not in a gallery space, it’s not in a private residence, it’s not in some high-rise office building, it’s available to the public and everyone. Even if people weren’t living at 5 Mockingbird, they felt like it was so personal to them. When you’re up on these metal lifts painting and someone takes time to stop, slow down and take a break from looking at their phone and finally give us a thumbs-up, it made us feel so good to know that people were appreciating the murals that we were restoring again. There’s also a lot of traffic on Mockingbird, so I’m sure it was a good show for everyone to see the process unfold and play out. WHAT DO YOU HOPE FOR PEOPLE TO TAKE AWAY FROM THIS NEW MURAL? ARNOLD: I want them to slow down, smile, ask questions and reflect. GARRISON: And if they get a chance in their busy schedules, to pull in and look for some of the hidden objects in the art. DO YOU THINK THIS MURAL WILL LAST FOR AWHILE? ARNOLD: It’s possible. That’s the goal! APRIL 2022

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Where the Sidewalk Ends THE CITY HELPS PAY FOR SIDEWALK AND DRIVEWAY REPAIRS

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S I D E WA L KS A R E T H E EYEBROWS OF THE STREET: They go unnoticed until they’re not there. Though they may seem commonplace, sidewalks can play important roles. For example, they improve safety for pedestrians and promote eco-friendly modes o f t ra n s p o r t at i o n , l i ke w a l k i n g or biking. So when there’s a lack of sidewalks, or the y’re not connec ted or level, people might be nudged to use a car. A c c o r d i n g t o a 2 0 2 1 s u r ve y, part of the Connect Dallas plan, 34% of respondents reported they often travel by walking, and 72% of respondents said the y wanted to rely more on walking as a way to get around. One of the top two reasons why people said they didn’t walk more was because sidewalks aren’ t connected. L a s t y e a r, a s t u d y c o m m i s sioned by the City of Dallas found that the cost of repairing half the

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existing defective sidewalks and filling the gaps was $2 billion. At the time, Dallas had more than 4,500 miles of sidewalks, including 343 in City Council District 14 and 387 in City Council Distric t 9. Also included in the City’s inventor y was a count of the missing sidewalks; it amounted to about 2,000 miles across all Council districts, with 39 in District 14 and 156 in District 9. The City leaves it to homeowners to replace sidewalks and driveways when they become problematic. It’s in the City Code. “When a sidewalk, driveway or any appurtenance to a sidewalk o r d r i ve w ay b e c o m e s d e f e c t i ve , unsafe or hazardous, the abutting property owner shall reconstruct or repair the sidewalk, driveway o r a p p u r t e n a n c e ,” a c c o r d i n g t o section 43-63. “And the expense of such work must be borne by the abutting property owner.” In 1985, the City Council approved a resolution to establish

the replacement of curbs, gutters, sidewalks and drive approaches on a cost-participation basis. The p r o g ra m i s c a l l e d t h e S i d e w a l k Replacement Program, and it is available to all single-family residences, including townhomes and condominiums. A spokesperson for the City of Dallas told The Advocate that 11,860 residents have taken advantage of this program. Neighbors pay for the drive approach removal and replacement. But for existing sidewalk removal and replacement, the City splits the cost with neighbors 50-50. It’s up to the City to procure any needed permits, and there’s a one-year warranty on workmanship. It takes about two or three months for the City to take a look at a property and provide a quote. After neighbors pay, the project could be completed in as little as three months or as much as nine, depending on demand. To t a k e a d v a n t a g e o f t h e s i d e walk program, call 214. 948. 4127 or 214. 948. 4287.

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2236 Forest Hollow Park | $699,900

SUSIE THOMPSON

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1364 Highland Road | $950,000 SOLD

ALAN SMITH

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7120 Twin Tree Lane | Private Sale SOLD - Represented Buyer

6943 Lindsley Avenue | $615,000

JOE KACYNSKI

214.850.7195 | joe.kacynski@alliebeth.com

5801 Reiger Avenue | $644,500 SOLD

MARSUE WILLIAMS

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5434 Goodwin Avenue | Private Sale SOLD

MICHAEL HUMPHRIES

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Swiss House LIVING COMFORTABLY IN AN 100-YEAR-OLD HOME Story by JEHADU ABSHIRO | Photography by JESSICA TURNER

aura McCavit loves old houses. She grew up in one in Pampa, Texas. When she and her high-school sweetheart husband Todd moved to Dallas 25 years ago, they wanted an old house in the city. Their first was over on Miller Avenue. Their next house was a Tudor cottage in the M Streets. It was the perfect size for a family with three small children. About five years ago, she was driving down B ea c o n a n d sa w a f o r sa l e si g n o n a P ra i r i e

Scho ol-st yle home on Swiss Avenue, built in 1916. “I was like, ‘Oh, look at that patio. And look at the size of that yard. Our kids could run around. Look at the style of the house,” Laura says. They couldn’t quit talking about the house. Todd had mentioned converting the attic into a family room since the high-pitched roof left plenty of space. The large backyard would be great for children and two dogs. “ The more we thought ab out it, the more

Opposite: The formal dining room with a dining table from Rockefeller Estate has access to the kitchen through a butler’s pantry.

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excited we got,” Laura says. So they bought t h e i r t h i r d 1 0 0 - y e a rold home. The large porch, the double Rookwood fireplace surround, the hardwood floors and the bevel-edged cut windows were all d e t a i l s t h e M c Ca v i t s loved. “But there’s always some surprise when you open up a wall or you dig down. Even the professionals are like, ‘Oh, wow, this is not how I’ve ever seen this done’ or whatever,” Todd says. “It creates some extra wrinkles and challenges. But it also makes it fun.” Before the McCavits moved in, they had to replace the backedup sewer line. After s h o r i n g t h e p o r c h’s foundation, a brick mason restored the original arches that had begun to crumble. “I think the other part comes from that we would like to preser ve the integrity of the historic part versus do updates that change the face of the house. So we’ll work on the inside and m o d e r n i z e i t ,” L a u ra says. The dense lath and plaster walls made it hard to set up a Wi-Fi network. They adde d a keyless gate to ease accessing the garage. Right: The McCavits brought in an architect to design an en-suite bathroom and closet.

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But the McCavits kept the first fl o o r ’s f o o t p r i n t t h e sa me. They chose to ke ep the front his-andhers sitting rooms intact. The one on the left ser ves as a T V room, and the one on the right ser ves as a reading room. One of the fireplaces works, and the other mysteriously doesn’t. “ We’v e h a d p e o p le come a nd look at it, some fireplace folks, and they’re baffled by the size of the flue,” Laura says. The second-floor renovations included converting the Jack-andJill bathroom the master bedroom and their teenage son shared into t w o s e pa ra te ba t h ro o m s, w h i ch a l l o w e d t h e m t o a d d a b u i l t- i n reading corner. Previous owners had turne d the original veranda into a faux gable after chronic leaking. Major renovations repurposed the attic into a third-floor family room with storage. “ We j u s t r e c l a i m e d a l o t o f space,” Todd says. Pool and driveway installation was complete in time for shelterin-place. The McCavits converted one of the garage bays to include a bathroom and space for grilling. The spacious backyard and third floor gave everyone adequate space when all three kids were schooling from home. “We’re a comfortable family of five that lives in it daily, and we take care of it, but we don’t baby it,” Laura says. Decor in the home is old and new with deference to traditional style. Heirlooms from both families are mixed in with contemporar y p i e c e s. Th e f o r m a l d i n i n g t ab l e is from the Rockefeller Estate, and the refurbished kitchen nook table is from an estate sale down the street, both paired with midcentur y modern chairs. Art from Laura’s grandmother, a journalistturned-artist, is placed throughout the house. A p ew from the First

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The master bedroom is a sleeping porch, with windows on all three walls.

United Methodist Church of Pampa, found in Todd’s parents’ attic, sits in the front hallway across a new piece of art, celebrating the McCavits’ 25th anniversar y. There are plants in almost ever y room. It softens the abundance of dark wood in the home, according to Laura. “I feel like every room needs to have something alive in it,” she says.

Left: The built-in bookshelf was created out of splitting the Jack-and-Jill bathroom. Right: The formal dining room includes an heirloom armoire from Laura's grandmother and a tea set from Todd's grandmother.

They appreciate their neighborhood just as much as their home. The kids play in the street, sometimes just throwing a Frisbee. People put up hammocks in the median. “And it’s just like having a park in your front yard,” Todd says. Laura loves Halloween, when the neighborhood goes all out for trick-or-treating. When the Dallas Marathon cuts

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not fiancees or other par tners. S o a f t e r t h e i r n u p t i a l s , Je r r i e r and Karen Smith headed to Europe for a 14-day cruise around France and Italy. “ That was the first time I ever really had true, Italian, wood-burning pizza,” Jerrier says. “And I was living near Ne w York at the time, s o e ve r y o n e w a s l i ke , ‘ O h y o u ’r e going to hate the pizza up there in Italy.’ But I just fell in love with

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bile wood-burning pizza oven to do pop-ups at Times Ten Cellars and the old Chocolate Angel at Preston-Forest. He n a m e d t h e p o p - u p C a n e Rosso after his vizslas, which have red fur. Once the y attrac ted a fanbase, they found a restaurant space in Deep Ellum a n d f o u n d e d t h e fi r s t C a n e Rosso in 2011. In March 2020, Jerrier was sitting at his Ne w York-style p i z z e r i a i n Fo r t Wo r t h , Z o li’s. He watched the news and saw the NBA had started canceling games because of the coronavirus. Over the next c o u p l e o f we e k s , h e a n d h i s team worked to pivot from dine-in to takeout. “As a way to tr y to keep the staff busy and employed, like most people, we started playing around with, OK, now we h ave a l l t h i s t i m e i n t h e kitchen — what have we always wanted to work on?” he says. The answer was Det r o i t - s t y l e p i z z a . Z o l i ’s h a d the right kind of ovens, and t h e s t a ff w o r k e d t o g e t t h e dough just right. Detroit-style pizza is crispy on the bottom, lighter in the middle, heavy on toppings and has a caramelized cheese crust around the edge. The sauce is poured on top af ter the pizza is baked. Thunderbird Pies launched as a ghost kitchen with only about 30 pizzas available each day. They sold out in minutes. As they increased the supply, the demand followed. S o as pandemic-related restrictions loosened, the landl o r d o f C a n e R o s s o’s W h i t e Rock location approached Jerrier with a deal. The brewery next door was moving,

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leaving the space open. After some back-and-for th, Jerrier took the spot. O r i g i n a l l y, t h e y e x p e c t e d t h e r e s t a u r a n t t o o ff e r o n l y delivery and takeout. But they had enough room for a counter, some tables and their ice cream concept, Cow Tipping Creamer y. Jerrier says he wasn’ t worried about putting two pizza places right next to each other b e c a u s e t h e y o ff e r d i ff e r e n t styles and experiences. He hasn’t seen a dip in sales since Thunderbird Pies opened last year. “ I t a l l go e s i n t o t h e s a m e bank account,” Jerrier says. T h u n d e r b i r d ’s p i z z a s i n clude the staples, cheese and p e p p e r o n i , s p e c i a l s l i ke t h e chicken parm pizza, combos with different meats and veggies, and some borrowed from Cane Rosso, like the honey bastard. Appetizers, sandwiches, b u r ge r s a n d o t h e r n o n - p i z za items were developed by e xec utive che f Je ff Bekavak, who used to work for Neighborhood S er vices. At Thunderbird, customers order at the counter, and food is brought to tables. It ’s c a s u a l , a n d t h e r e ’s a m u r a l by Dallas-based artist Ripman and funny pictures on the wall. Arcade games are at the front. Garage doors open up to the patio when the weather ’s nice. “ S o i t ’s j u s t l i ke a l l o f my p l a c e s ,” Je r r i e r s ay s . “ I j u s t wanted it to be a place where I feel like I would be comfortable hanging out in my shor ts and my hoodie.” Thunderbird Pies, 7328 Gaston Ave., thunderbirdpies.com, 469.577.1077

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The house of refuge on Redwood Circle in Little Forest Hills was beginning to cave. Though loved and cared for by the women of The Magdalen House — where women have sought treatment for alcoholism since 1987 — the home could no longer shoulder the formidable work and growing demand. The nonprofit’s executive director, Lisa Kroencke, who spearheaded a capital campaign to raise funds for a new facility, says there came a point while serving as a volunteer board member when she realized people

trying to recover from alcoholism are worthy of something beautiful. “A lot of these women, including me, had felt so much shame that they thought this dilapidated building with asbestos and faulty wiring was about as good as they deserve,” she says. “I recognized that if we were going to grow, it was not going to be in that physical space. We either had to rebuild there, or we had to find a new facility.” They were a far cry from being able to afford it — “$20,000 in the bank, $185,000 operating budget,” Kroencke

recalls. The David Crowley Foundation came through with a $600,000 grant to purchase property in the Peak’s Suburban Addition, a historic preservation district in East Dallas. The remodel would cost another $2.8 million. But that donation kickstarted something that could not be stopped, a whirlwind three years of further fundraising, navigating code and Landmark Commission rules, weathering storms (a literal tornado and a pandemic) and designing and constructing a new Magdalen House. Cutline. Photography by Name Name

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One year ago, Maggie’s relocated to a studs-out-remodeled 12,000-square-foot historic mansion. The place brightens up the entire 4500 block of Gaston Avenue. It allows The Magdalen House to treat 20, rather than 14, inpatients at a time and accommodate workspaces for 22 full- and part-time staffers. The size of family and community meeting rooms have doubled. Today, it’s a home worthy of its occupants.

THE LONELIEST THING IN THE WHOLE WORLD Swinging open the front door (a replica of the home’s original, framed-by-leaded-glass windows), Kroencke greets guests with an effervescent grin, a touch on the shoulder and welcoming words. One might mistake her for a TV news anchor, her vibes

m e rg i n g m o m - n ex t- d o o r w i t h local celebrity. After a career in marketing, and memberships on several nonprofit boards, Kroencke now serves as The Magdalen House’s executive director. Her rap sheet is as impressive as her resume. Without discomfort, she discusses days spent in jail, detox centers and rehabilitation programs. It started in her late 30s. “I was 36-37 when I noticed that my drinking had changed. And it wasn’t even about the amount, really, but the importance.” On the outside, Kroencke’s life was quintessential — first in her family to graduate from a university, traveled the world as a flight attendant, landed a dream job at The Richards Group where she met her husband, Dave Kroencke. They raised four sons. She tried to control her problem and hide it as long as she could. That became increasingly difficult. “It’s the loneliest illness in the entire world, because you have this secret, and you have to constantly pretend — to yourself and everyone — that everything is OK,” she says. The seams of her world were coming apart. She was drinking in her closet, thinking about suicide. She and Dave divorced. She saw doctors, psychiatrists, joined a church, attended Alcoholics Anonymous meetings. None of it worked. Although the 12 principles outlined in the AA program are core to her life today, going to AA meetings was not enough for Kroencke. “Because I looked at it as a punishment,” she says. Following a particularly awful Grey Goose Vodka binge, she found herself in a new AA group with a member who showed her the blue book written by the founders in the 1930s. Alcoholics Anonymous, the literature, explained that she might suffer from a sickness that willpower alone cannot overcome. The American Medical Association has since classified alcoholism as a

disease and endorsed the dual classification of alcoholism by the International Classification of Diseases under both psychiatric and medical sections. While there are various treatments, there is no known cure. The AA text never rejects medical treatment but suggests long-term sobriety can be achieved when a dry alcoholic helps one still suffering. Some call it a mutual aid fellowship. As it worked in Kroencke’s life, all those once-shameful incidents would serve as useful tools in her new vocation. “What I thought was my curse became my greatest asset, because that behavior and those experiences are why women trust me,” she says. “If not for all these experiences, I’m just some blonde woman trying to sell you on a pyramid system.”

COST OF ADMISSION: ‘WILLINGNESS AND DESIRE’ The Magdalen House is not an Alcoholics Anonymous affiliate, even though the program was initially founded by AA members. Participants take AA’s first step, admitting powerlessness over alcohol, when they call the admissions office. In the program, they are introduced to the other 11 steps and are encouraged to find a sponsor and a healthy AA group near home. There are 115,326 AA groups in 175 countries today. Because so many women in the Dallas area have come through The Magdalen House, alumni can help newcomers find a good home group, says director of outreach Ainsley Chapman. “We are everywhere,” she says. She’s one herself. Since its inception, Maggie’s has offered a 14-day, in-house, social detox program free of charge and without government funding; public subsidies often come with bureaucratic regulations that can impede service, Chapman says. When Chapman’s parents begged her to get sober, she tried. She once

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checked into a medical detox hospital for a 10-day program but was booted after three days because her health insurance provider wouldn’t cover it. She was in and out of other facilities, but being sober on the outside was unbearable. “I remember lying on the bathroom floor, chugging a bottle of vodka, bawling tears thinking I’m losing my mind

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because I feel like I’m doing this against my will.” Learning more about alcoholism at Maggie’s made her feel reborn. “I feel like this is the house I grew up in.” Insurance, finances, whether you have proof of address, a Texas ID or a Social Security number — when Chapman speaks with a woman seeking help at Maggie’s, none of it matters.

“Identify as a woman, be over 18, have a problem primarily with alcohol, that’s the criteria,” Chapman says. “And she must call us herself. It’s all about her willingness and desire.” Maggie’s also offers a threemonth outpatient program for alcoholic women in any stage of recovery. It’s recommended to those who have completed the in-patient stage. Offerings also include an array of classes, support groups and workshops for men and women, including a family support group for loved ones of alcoholics. Kate Richter joined Maggie’s as development director because she loved what they did for women. “Raised by a single mother, I believe in the mission of women empowering women.” She helped organize the biggest fundraising event in Maggie’s long history, a dinner where Laura Bush

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delivered the keynote. The former first lady acknowledged that “some 250,000 women in Dallas-Fort Worth are alcohol dependent” and that “The Magdalen House’s treatment plan has saved thousands.” When Richter learned someone close to her was struggling with addiction, it gave her a deeper appreciation for Maggie’s family support groups, which are for anyone suffering, even if the alcoholic loved one has not sobered up. “The husband, friend, mom, dad and children also learn that it’s not a morality issue. That was instrumental in me being able to know how to support my loved one,” Richter says. Lisa Kroencke’s husband Dave participated in the family programs. They have since remarried. Now Dave speaks to and works with other alcoholic spouses. He was a key member of the committee raising money for the new house.

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THE HOME OF HER DREAMS Perched on a fireside pastel armchair in the sun-splashed family room, Kroencke concludes the story that, as a speaker and philanthropist, she tells on a regular basis, which doesn’t stop the waterworks. “I am just so grateful, for all of it. Every aspect of my life is better than I could have imagined because of alcoholism,” Kroencke says. Just awarded Preservation Dallas’ 2022 Preservation Achievement Award, she says the Maggie’s House renovation marks the pinnacle of her dreams. “To give alcoholic women a dignified space to recover from a disease. Where their children can come visit. Where they don’t ever have to feel shame because they reached out for help.”

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CO N STA N T GA R D E N E R In the plant world, Drew Demler is a rock star Story by CHRISTINA HUGHES BABB | Photography by YUVIE STYLES

e’s a greenery guru, the sultan of soil, a horticultural hero — you get the idea. White Rock area resident Drew Demler serves as head grower for Big Tex Urban Farms — headquartered inside the translucent Errol McCoy Greenhouse at the base of the famous Ferris wheel on the grounds of Fair Park — a job that keeps him in the weeds year round. Lest you assume a garden guy might be a wallflower, rather than a people person, know this: The man is no shrinking violet. He’s a highly effective emissary of the State Fair of Texas and all-around ambassador for urban agriculture. When TV news crews show up, Demler guides the tour — charismatic, instructive, beaming for the camera in a pink-purple grow-light glow, bragging on shiny bell peppers and bok choy plants with leaves as big as Tex’s boot. He produces YouTube videos on the wonders of microgreens and nanobubbles or tree grafting, speaks at symposiums, teaches agriculture to college students and instructs vegan cooking classes. He is not a judgy vegan; he’s the type who sometimes thinks about eating eggs. His love of farming goes beyond growing beautiful, fragrant fields. Demler has helped revolutionize the State Fair’s program, transforming an essentially ornamental endeavor into an outreach that helps feed thousands of Dallas families every year. With a network of partners and State Fair resources, he helped install a hydroponic growing system that in 2020 yielded 26,000 pounds, or 295,000 servings, of produce. Today, 100% of the Big Tex Farm harvest goes to the community. And when Demler is not on the Midway, he’s often in nearby neighborhoods teaching and helping others. That’s why he’s the maharishi of mulch, the vegetation virtuoso, a svenghali of shrub. WHEN DID YOU KNOW PLANTS WERE GOING TO BE YOUR THING? I started out around plants at a very young age, working at a garden center in Baton Rouge, where I am from. As a kid I was real active, always on the

move, it was the thing that held my attention. Early 20s, I took a job in Austin, at the city’s largest independent garden center at the time, and I quickly became manager. With that momentum, I had my own place for a while, Seasons Garden Center in Leander, but there were some forces working against us, so it only lasted about six years. Even though it didn’t work out, I accumulated tons of experience. MAYBE YOU WERE NEEDED SOMEWHERE ELSE, LIKE … I got a job as one of the head horticulturalists at the Dallas Arboretum — that got me to Dallas. I enjoyed my time at the Dallas Arboretum. Obviously, it’s such a beautiful place, but I had not been there long, maybe six months, when this position at the State Fair, greenhouse manager, opened up. It just sounded so unique to me — you have this greenhouse, growing ornamental plants right next to this giant Ferris wheel. I thought, I just have got to try that. WERE YOU PREPARED FOR THE BIGNESS OF THE STATE FAIR? This was another level. For the first five years, my job was ornamental hortic ulture. I grew things like bougainvilleas and palm trees and varieties of hanging baskets and tropicals, and we still do, but we’ve scaled some of those things down to make way for farming. On April 1, 2016, we planted our first seeds for the Big Tex Urban Farms. THE PRETTY PLANTS AND THE FOOD-PRODUCING PLANTS — IS THERE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THOSE THINGS TO MINGLE? T he y can intermingle more than people think. There’s no reason we shouldn’t be planting things like okra in our flower beds. It’s a hibiscus relative and makes a gorgeous yellow flower. Different types of peppers — I’ve seen people make a hedge out of them. They look glorious. There’s no reason in your vegetable garden you shouldn’t have some marigolds and pintas … maybe some coneflowers or native varieties that are going to attract bees and butterflies and good pollinator insects. If you go back APRIL 2022

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a generation, people who were into gardening did a lot more marrying of ornamentals and edibles. There might be a couple of rows of cut flowers to bring in the house and put in the vase. WHAT DOES YOUR GARD E N AT H O M E L O O K LIKE? I am kind of just ge tting started in a new place. I’ve planted potatoes and onions. It’s been a slow start because the weather’s been so funky, but the onions are starting to root really good and starting to stand up nice and straight, potatoes are sprouting, it’s happening. On the backside of the last cold spell, I’m going to start my green beans … SO SPRINGTIME, THAT’S A GOOD TIME FOR PLANTING? A p r i l i s r o c k ‘ n’ r o l l . It ’s tomatoes. It’s peppers. It’s your green beans. If you’re gonna get any greens going, you need to plant them as soon as you can, like kale and collard, get some roots going before the heat sets in. By late April , it ’s going to be time for melons, squash and cucumbers. All the warm-weather favorites. T E X A S H A S B R U TA L SUMMERS AND WINTERS. HOW HARD IS OUR CLIMATE ON GROWERS? It has to be one of the most challenging climates, no doubt about it. Especially because it can be so inconsistent. Tips and tricks can h e l p . I f y o u d o n’ t h av e a greenhouse or hoop house, you can still set up PVC and make a tunnel out of t h e m . Yo u c a n p u t f r o s t blankets over the top of

your sensitive crops on the cold days. You can use shade cloth in the summertime. Cheating every chance you ge t helps your odds. WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE VEGETABLE TO EAT AND GROW? IT CAN BE DIFFERENT THINGS. If you pinned me down, I would say the black-e yed peas, a nice warm pot on a cold day. Cornbread on the side. But growing, watching melons is a really neat process. It star ts the size of a thumbnail or smaller and you see them swell up sometimes over night. And my children love the watermelon, so they get excited. HOW MANY KIDS, WHERE ARE THEY, AND HOW ABOUT THE WIFE — DOES SHE LIKE THIS STUFF? T h r e e b o y s , t w o a t L a ke Highlands Junior High, another at the magnet school in Richardson. And Carol, my wife, is not into it. She is a fitness specialist and works for the YMCA. HOW ABOUT THOSE GIANT WATERMELONS W E S E E I N G R O C E RY STORES — THAT’S NOT NATURAL IS IT? What it is, is some r eally smart farmers — master gene ticis ts ab l e to r ec o g nize in their fiel ds whic h mel ons s tand out in size, and they will save seed from those and they’ ll continue to plant them and some times cross poll i n at e w i t h o t h e r m e l o n s that are also growing l ar ge. T he y ’ve wor ked o n some of those varieties for centur ies now.

I KNOW A LOT OF PEOP L E W H O S TA R T E D GARDENING OR GOING NUTS WITH THE HOUSE PLANTS DURING PAND E M I C LO C K D OW N S. W H Y D I D T H AT H A PPEN, DO YOU THINK? Maybe because people were at home, looking for something to do. Maybe, hopefully, that stuck. I think it’s going to become more important for people to be able to produce their own f o o d , f o r e nv i r o n m e n t a l reasons. Again, if we go back to generations past, it was a much bigger deal to use people’s gardens as a food source. And we’re capable of doing a lot more than we think we are, even in small spaces. At the very beginning of quarantine, I posted a video about how easy it is to home-grow microgreens. ARE THERE PEOPLE WHO, FOR THE SAKE OF THE PLANTS, SHOULD NOT OWN PLANTS? L I K E I F YO U H AV E A R E A L LY H A R D T I M E KEEPING THEM ALIVE? Anyone can do this. Not everyone is a natural. It’s largely a hobby consisting of persistence. You’ve got to be able to take it on the chin and know that’s going to happen sometime and just be ready to plant that next seed again. If you’re willing to do that several times over you’ ll end up having success.

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The first Ford assembly plant in Dallas was built in 1914, less than a decade after founder Henry Ford built the first Model T. It was located in Deep Ellum where the Adam Hats building is, at 2700 Canton St. The four-story, red brick building was designed by John Graham, the architect behind many of Ford’s assembly plants. By 1925, Ford had outgrown its space, so the company moved to a new spot at 5200 E. Grand Ave. near Fair Park. This location offered plenty of room and convenient access to the rail yard. Most of

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the cars produced there left with a sticker that read “Built in Texas by Texans.” The plant shut down 1933-34 because of the Great Depression. And during World War II, Ford plants were used to build military vehicles, airplanes, bombers, armored tanks, generators and more. Normal production at the Dallas plant resumed in 1945 with production of the 1946 model. The plant closed Feb. 20, 1970, according to the City of Dallas Office of Historic Preservation.

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LAKESIDE LIVING: Construction is underway at the Lakeside project off Gaston Avenue. In 2020, the development at the former Edge at White Rock site was known as Eas tside Trail and included 127 single-family units for sale, with 45 flats and 82 townhomes. T hen it was renamed to Connecticut at White Rock. Now, it’s called Lakeside. There are plans to build 107 townhomes at Lakeside, which is sandwiched between the Winsted at

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White Rock apartments and Arboretum Village shopping center. The Santa Fe Trail runs near the eastern edge of the property. Phase One will include 44 townhomes priced at the mid-$400,000s to the mid-$600,000s. The first homes will be available this fall. Residents will have pocket parks for green space, and representatives from the real estate groups marketing the homes told The Advocate that the mature trees at the 5-acre site are expected to remain.

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Barbaree Boule vard, motioned to approve the rezoning with a stipulation that the garage doors be set back 20 feet from the sidewalk so cars could park in driveways. She also noted that Plan Commissioner Michael Jung had worked with the de veloper to identify which trees needed to be saved. Homes will range in size from 2,000-4,000 square fee t and are expected to be priced between $675,000 and $1 million. The residences are planned to be available next year.

RETAIL TO RESIDENTIAL: The development on the former Garland Road T hrift Store site is planned to have 56 units. Initially called Casa View Court, it was approved by the City Plan Commission and proceeded to the City Council, where it was approved in March.

Of the 56 units, there will be duplexes, free-standing residences and four six-plexes. Two-stor y homes, each with a private backyard, will line the perimeter. And the three-stor y struc tures will be in the middle of the property, surrounding a community pool. The developer of the project, Larkspur Capital, also worked on the Faulkner Tower in Lakewood. “In our view, this is a really good fit,” Carl Anderson of Larkspur Capital said at a January neighborhood meeting. “It’s pretty consistent with the Garland Road Vision Study. It doesn’t overlap perfectly, but it basically called for this section to be high-density residential.” Some neighbors were concerned about potential traffic issues that could result from this development. But Christy Lambeth, a traffic engineer, said during the peak morning hours, about 30 vehicles are ex-

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TOP 25 NANCY JOHNSON

JEFF MITCHELL

JOE KACYNSKI

SCOTT JACKSON

AMY SACK

NANCY WILSON

KATE LOONEY WALTERS

DAVID BUSH

NADINE KELSALL-MEYER

LEE LAMONT

KYLE BRINKLEY

RICHARD GRAZIANO

SKYLAR CHAMPION

FORREST GREGG

BRITT LOPEZ

LAUREN VALEK FARRIS

MYSTI NEWBERRY STEWART

ELIZABETH MAST

JACOB MOSS

LAUREN MOORE

JOHN THOMPSON

DAMON WILLIAMSON

KYLE BAUGH

SUSIE THOMPSON

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Allie Beth Allman & Associates

Compass Real Estate Texas, LLC

Coldwell Banker Realty Meyer Group Real Estate

Brinkley Property Group

Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate

Allie Beth Allman & Associates

Compass Real Estate Texas, LLC

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GIA MARSHELLO

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LOU ALPERT

BARRETT BLAKELY

PAUL CARPER

LUKE CUTHBERT

KATIE ASPEN

CATHERINE BLEVENS

ADAM CASE

BLAKE DAMRON

JOE ATKINS

KYLE BOEHME

RANDALL CASS

BESS DICKSON

SUSAN BALDWIN

TUCKER BOMAR

JASON CASTRO

JOLIE BARRIOS

KRISTEN BOOTHE

GIANNA CERULLO

Compass Real Estate Texas, LLC

JASON BATES

CHASE BRAY

LIZ CHALFANT

Jeff Duffey and Associates

BRIANNE BAUCUM

MICHAEL BRINK

LIZZ CHRISTOPHERSON

Redfin Corporation

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RICK BROOKS

JENNIFER CLOUD

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LESLI BILLS

NEIL BROUSSARD

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RUSS BROWN

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THANI BURKE

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JENNY CAPRITTA

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Compass Real Estate Texas, LLC David Griffin & Company

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KEVIN CURRAN Redfin Corporation

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PAIGE ELLIOTT

COURTNEY ELLIS LORI ERICSSON NYDA FAITH

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JD GONZALES

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LEXIE GORHAM United Real Estate

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Jeff Duffey and Associates

HOLLY GRANDCOLAS Redfin Corporation

LAURA GRAVES

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DAVID GRIFFIN

David Griffin & Company

HEATHER GUILD

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NATALIE HATCHETT

Compass Real Estate Texas, LLC

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KATHY HEWITT

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CHRIS HICKMAN

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EVE HOLDER

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MICHELLE HOPSON

Compass Real Estate Texas, LLC

MICHAEL HUMPHRIES

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SIMONE JEANES

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TAYLOR JOHNSON

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JOHN JONES

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CLIFTON KESSLER

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CHRIS KIMBROUGH

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CINDY O’GORMAN

JOHN STAMER

ALISON O’HALLORAN

SHANNON STUPAY

BECKY OLIVER

ROBBY STURGEON

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JASON LANDRY

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JOHN PRELL

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HOWIE REED

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LAURA REYNOLDS

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MICHAEL SCHMITT

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KATE MOTE

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MELANIE TILL

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BRANDON TRAVELSTEAD

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Compass Real Estate Texas, LLC

BARBARA VAN POOLE Keller Williams Realty DPR

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LAUREN VON ROSENBERG

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MINA SHAMSA

ROBERT WONG

Ebby Halliday, Realtors

WARREN SIBLEY

Coldwell Banker Realty

CLAY SMILEY

Compass Real Estate Texas, LLC

ALAN SMITH

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DONALD WRIGHT

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ERIN YOUNG GARRETT

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houses everything from the fridge to china cabinet to TV. Their previous home was traditional with formal spaces that didn’t get used often. They wanted a more relaxed home their children and possible grandchildren could enjoy. A corner room is dedicated to the “Africa” room, where art, photos and artifacts are held. The husband had lived in a village in Togo for a couple of years immediately after college, sparking several decades of travel to the country. Their three children have all visited. On one eventful trip, their son caught a goat with the help of the local children. There’s a photo of him holding it before he released it. The husband still keeps in touch with the people he met in the village those first two years. On the third floor, there’s an alcove with a couch that’s a replica of one in Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater. Between the floor-to-ceiling windows and terrace levels, several cantilevers were necessary to keep the house structurally sound. The or ange titanium beam, which stretches from the front of the house all the way through before jutting out at an angle, holds the house up. “Anytime you're doing a modern house, from a structural standpoint when you see the glass is going all the way up to the ceiling, your tolerances get really tight so that you can' t just build to meet code,” Welch says. TOP LEFT: The second-floor alcove modeled after Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater. BOTTOM LEFT: A collection of

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RIGHT: The beam is actually two pieces welded together. The stairwell leads to the basement.

The orange from the beam is incorporated throughout the house in the furniture and accessories by interior design firm Allen Kirsch and Associates, Inc. Lighting consultant Shane Douglas and two gallerists from the Dallas Museum of Art help highlight artwork. Foremost for the owners was having space to display their growing art collection — a David Bates magnolia, at least a dozen Dallas Nine pieces and Diego Rivera mixed into their own son’s artwork and family photos. Welch created a blank wall where a row of Dallas Nine pieces, a group of postmodern artists who painted the city’s landscape, hang. On another wall, there is a painting of Florence McClung’s Little Mexico before it became the Harwood District, and her Oak Cliff skyline, and Otis Dozier ’s Mckinney Avenue. The limestone on the fireplace is slabbed in straight lines as not to distract from the hanging Everett Spruce painting. Welch created a screen mahogany wall that mimics the design of the stairwell to provide privacy and display family photos. From the curb, you see the screen wall and a 50-million-year-old fossil from the Green River Formation in Montana. The owners found it on an online auction, and Welch designed a stand for the massive fossil. Collecting fossils is a hobby they picked up a decade ago. The backyard, which features an infinity pool, has direct access to the lake trail. The couple often walks the trail. Sometimes they’ll see Welch, who lives on the other side of the lake, cycling. “ I s p e n d a l o t of t i m e a t W h i te Rock Lake, so that's one of my favorite things about getting to do things at White Rock Lake is I get to ride by the projects,” Welch says.

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30 years of neighborhood news W hy T h e Ad vo ca te b e ca m e a n o n p rof i t b u s i n ess

ears ago, an employee described Advocate Media best: “So many dreams. So few people.” Thirty years ago this month, we began with a simple goal: Help make life in Dallas more like life in a small town. Connect neighbors. Build friendships. Support local businesses. Since the beginning — regardless of race, economics or politics — if you read The Advocate, you’re a neighbor. To achie ve that goal, then as now, we make our publications free to ever yone. If we can help neighbors feel like a part of our neighborhood — particularly if work or family issues keep you from attending meetings or meeting the people next door — we’re doing something good. O r i g i n a l l y, w e d e c i d e d t h e best way to accomplish this go a l w a s t o a s k n e i g h b o r h o o d businesses to help pay the cost of distributing our print publications. Businesses bought affordable adver tisements, and we told their stories to 180,000+ neighbors, hoping that readers realize many of the things we need are just down the street. Our first publications were tabloid black-and-white newspapers hung on doors. Over the years, we switched to a magazine format with glossy paper and colorful neighborhood news and photography — always created by and for neighbors. Then the internet allowed us reach more people more frequently as we added neighborhood websites with daily neighborhood news updates. Then we added social media sites and weekly email newsletters. At some point in the daily small-business grind, we started facilitating more than 1 million

engagements monthly among neighbors. One thing about our business never changed. Although we’ve always been a “for-profit” entity, the “profits” didn’ t amount to much compared with the efforts we invested. That’s not a complaint, just the truth. So as we reached our 30th year of neighborhood community ser vice, we talked about how to put us on the right road for the next 30 years. In 2021, we decided to recognize the reality of the community information business — instead of being marginally “for-profit,” why not reconfigure to be officially “nonprofit”? B e c o m i n g a n o n p r o fi t b e tt e r reflects our neighborhood status anyway — we’ve always tried to b e a h e l p f u l , c a r i n g n e i g h b o r. Nonprofit status allows us to approach businesses with different sponsorship opportunities, and it allows us to ask readers to help in different ways, e ven a s we c o n t i n u e d o n at i n g m o r e than $250,000 annually in media space and promotions to neighborhood schools, nonprofits and groups. We’ve always leaned on readers for help, and your support is even more important as we begin our nonprofit journey. And while I’ ll still be along for the ride, our n o n p r o fi t b o a r d w i l l b e l e d b y publisher Jehadu Abshiro. I f y o u c a n j o i n u s , p l e a s e d o . Fr o m s e l l i n g advertisements to writing stories to donating a few bucks, we need you. Email jabshiro@advocatemag. com or rwamre@advocatemag.com, and we’ ll tell you about our plans and our needs. We’ ll probably always have more dreams than people. I hope so, anyway. We need to stay idealistic and ambitious if we’re going to make a difference.

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SUMMER LOVELAND HAS ALWAYS BEEN DRAWN TO HISTORIC HOMES. She was one of the first residents to sign a petition to help create the Belmont Addition Conservation District. Loveland moved out of state for a while, but when she returned to Dallas 11 years ago, she knew she wanted to live in Lakewood. “I love the character of old homes. I really fell in love with the Hutsell homes, so that was certainly a draw for me,” she says. “The character and uniqueness of the architecture, the mature trees and the neighborhood feel was certainly a draw.” Clifford Hutsell was an architect known for designing homes in the Spanish Eclectic style. Over the past decade, neighbors have been noticing a trend. Older homes are being torn down and replaced with modern ones. Loveland says 12 homes have been demolished in the past 10 years. “When we have this new construction that’s not complementary to the existing architecture, it breaks down that unique feel of the neighborhood that

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a lot of people were attracted to in the first place when they moved there,” she says. “People may not realize what it is exactly about the neighborhood that they’re attracted to, and then they come in and build something new that’s actually diminishing the unique character of the neighborhood that they fell in love with in the first place.” To try to preserve the architectural styles and features of the neighborhood, Loveland and other homeowners nearby have started the process to create a subarea of the Lakewood Conservation District. A committee of 11 homeowners, Loveland included, has been meeting and working with the City of Dallas. In late February, they submitted the request for a determination of eligibility and finalized the language for a petition. The City has 65 days to make a determination of eligibility and notify the neighborhood committee. Loveland says the Department of Planning & Urban Design has already reviewed the documents and expects to approve the deter-

mination of eligibility soon, though as of publication, no official approval has been given. Staff wants to make sure it has compiled all necessary names and addresses for petitions so they can be provided to the committee as soon as possible. After receiving approval, the committee has 60 days to get signatures representing 58% of the proposed land area or 58% of the lots. In signing the petitions, neighbors signal their willingness for the process to continue. The expansion area includes 275 homes on Lakewood Boulevard — where Loveland lives — Lakeshore Drive, Avalon Avenue, Tokalon Drive and Westlake Avenue. It borders the existing Lakewood Conservation District, CD No. 2. Formed in 1988, the Lakewood Conservation District was the second conservation district in Dallas and followed boundaries of the Country Club Estates development. Included in the conservation district are several homes designed by architects such as Charles Dilbeck and George Marble. Dilbeck, who designed

hundreds of Dallas homes in the 1930s, worked with Marble for about six months before venturing off on his own. Homes in the proposed expansion area date back to 1924. Though this expansion is classified as a subarea of CD No. 2, it would not need to adopt the same ordinance as CD No. 2. Neighbors will be able to write their own ordinance with their own set of development and architectural standards. Loveland says one concern she’s heard is that there are too many architectural styles in the proposed expansion area. But the same architectural styles are visible in the existing Lakewood Conservation District, and it has survived for decades. She’s also heard that buildi n g o r r en ovat i n g h ome s while complying with conservation district ordinances can be expensive. Loveland counters that by saying the increased property value that comes from being located in a conservation district makes up for the associated costs. She says local real estate agents agree with this and have volunteered to speak at neighborhood meetings about how property values would be affected. “As a member of a community, you need to have a longterm view of what’s best for the community as a whole,” she says. “And in Lakewood, we’re stewards of these homes that have been here for 100 years, and we need to be thinking about the overall character of the neighborhood and the long-lasting feel of our neighborhood and not just what’s happening in the real estate market currently.”

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hortly after moving into their Lakewood home almost 25 years ago, Carrie and Richard Thacker discovered just how wild East Dallas can be. Wild, as in wildlife, that is. Their property is on a peninsula, surrounded on three sides by a creek and forest, so it’s no surprise that opossums, rabbits, armadillos, skunks, turtles and snakes have made appearances. Even the occasional coyote or bobcat has stopped by. But the life of the party, they soon found, was the raccoon. Make that plural: raccoons. Up to 30 at a time. Fortunately, the Thackers clearly love the critters. It all began with Danielle, the first raccoon they encountered and soon named. She was an older female, probably 8 or 9 years old, with a withered left front leg. “When she saw me, she stood straight up, left her group, and came directly across the yard and sat down in front of me a scant 3 feet away,” Richard recalls. “No fear whatsoever, as if we had known each other forever. The feeling was mutual, a feeling of joy very hard to describe. The connection was instant and I can still feel it now.” He fed her a big piece of Sock It To Me Cake. “From that day on I couldn’t wait to see her in the evening to give her cake. I guess I was trained at that point,” he laughs.

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Richard and Carrie Thacker have seen raccoons, opossums and more on their property. Photography by Shelby Tauber.

Yes, the Thackers are well aware of the naysayers, those who believe wildlife should never be fed by or interact with humans. But they point out that they’ve never had any problems — such as damage to property — with any of the wildlife. And they’ve never been attacked or bitten. The only aggressive behavior they’ve seen is between males during mating season. Over the years, they have educated themselves about raccoons and believe they have a healthy system in place to prevent the spread of disease among the groups — for example, scattering kibble over a large area to keep the little guys from congregating and infecting one another. Most of all, they feel they owe it to the raccoons to provide some food and the occasional treat. “We humans have taken over their habitat and they are just trying to survive, so we want to help them as much as we can,” Carrie says. The Thackers have embraced the raccoons and made them part of their routine. Most days, they spread out dry kibble and draw a good crowd, anywhere from 10 or so in the winter to groups of more than 30 in spring and summer. Their favorite activity is what they refer to as “Cookie Time.”

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A conduit of grace S h a r i n g p raye rs a n d h o p e a c ross o cea n s a n d re l i g i o n s

hat happens here d o e s n’ t s t a y h e r e . That’s a truth of our time. We live in a hyper-connected world. Cyber technology transmits information across oceans instantly. That’s good and bad, of course, as all new tools bring with their creation both promise and peril. The bad is well-documented and chronically lamented. Political and ideological actors of ill intent can destabilize countries and economies with misinformation and disinformation. Cyber hackers can steal you blind from behind screens of invisibility. They can sow discord and draw you down into rabbit holes of conspiracy theories. Before you know it, you are living in an alternate reality that bears enough semblance to reality to confuse you. The good is oversold by Facebook and their like(s). Yet, a recent share in real time proved the power of information technology for social solidarity and spiritual sympathy. In the weeks leading up to worship at the church I serve as pastor, Mike Capps, who conducts a choral ensemble, selected and adapted a piece by the Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff titled Morning Prayer. It came from a portion of his work Shestopsalnye (Six Psalms). The text is from the Orthodox Prayer Book: Glory to thee. Glory to thee. Glory to thee, God. Glory to thee. We bless Thee, O God, in the highest. Lord of mercy, both now and unto ages, Amen. Concerned about the timing of celebrating a Russian composer in the immediate aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Capps introduced the piece

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by saying: “Even as war and fear have come to their land, every morning, it’s not unlikely that Orthodox Ukrainian believers will reach for their prayer book, and recite the Morning Prayer, which contains these opening lines, Glory to Thee, God, Glory to Thee (three times). This morning, … (we) sing it in solidarity with our brothers and sisters and offer it as a prayer on their behalf.” After worship, a doctor in our church, who had done medical missions work in Bulgaria years ago and still has close ties there, emailed the YouTube link of this musical offering to a lawyer friend in Sofia who works frequently in Ukraine on religious liberty issues. He sent it on to his besieged contacts in that country that was already under missile fire. Ukrainians were able to feel the comfort and prayers of people halfway across the globe within hours of the simple exercise of a Baptist church in worship. Martin Luther King Jr. said: “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.” Therefore, we think globally, act locally. The internet can be a cesspool of filth, but it can also be a conduit of grace. The Spirit has always carried prayers from place to people and people to people, but now and then we can feel the connection and see the effects of our care on those who need them most. GEORGE MASON is pastor of Wilshire Baptist Church, president of Faith Commons and host of the “Good God” podcast. The Worship section is underwritten by Advocate Publishing and the neighborhood businesses and churches listed here. For information about helping support the Worship section, call 214.560.4202.

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Pastor George A. Mason / Worship at 9 & 11 a.m. Sunday School at 10 a.m. / wilshirebc.org

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METHODIST LAKEWOOD UMC / 2443 Abrams Rd. / 214.823.9623 Sunday Morning Worship 10:30 am / mylakewoodchurch.org Messy Church for Children and Families Sunday 5:00 pm MUNGER PLACE CHURCH / Come & See

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