Dallas Architecture Seen in Dallas and Highland Park Homes and Neighborhoods

Presented by Dallas Best Realtor Douglas Newby

Dallas Architecture best expresses itself in the neighborhoods of Dallas and the Townships of Highland Park and University Park.  Residential architecture has similarities to each other in each era.  However, each city has its own nuance and regional interpretation of classic or modern styles.  National Award-Winning Realtor Douglas Newby is well known as an expert on Dallas residential architecture and the neighborhoods within Dallas, Highland Park and University Park.  Prominent clients who are passionate about good design and a neighborhood site that will bring happiness to their family enjoy and benefit from the representation of Realtor Douglas Newby. 

DallasArchitecture.com Website Brings MLS Homes Designated with an Architectural Style to Your Attention

While Douglas Newby is best able to review the specific architecture styles found in Dallas, here you will be able to see the architectural styles as they are labeled for MLS.

You will also be able to use these links to find out about Dallas neighborhoods, Dallas architects, Dallas modern homes for sale in MLS, and further examples of Dallas architectural styles.

Douglas Newby has represented sellers and buyers who have the greatest interest in architecture, architecturally significant homes, and real value. Contact Douglas Newby to see if he should represent you.


Artist Leisa Collins' pen and ink and water color of the home at 5530 Wenonah Drive in Greenway Parks, Dallas, Texas.
Artist Leisa Collins accurately articulates the architecture of this Tudor Revival style suggesting an English Manor house while communicating the emotion and elegance of this historic home designed by Fonzie E. Robertson.

5530 Wenonah Drive, Dallas, Texas

Architect Fonzi Robertson Designed Home – Not Yet on Market

Architect Fonzie Robertson designed this Greenway Parks masterpiece in 1928 in an English style. It was an elegant and grand home then, and remains so today. With 5,500 square feet, sited on .53 acres of land, and enhanced by the Greenway private park behind it, 5530 Wenonah was distinguished from the beginning.


Charles Dilbeck Home in Highland Park – Offered For Sale – Sold

Original architectural detail of this historic home designed by architect Charles Dilbeck in 1945 located in West Highland Park, Dallas, Texas.
Here one can see both the inspiration of an English cottage and Charles Dilbeck’s embrace of Texas indigenous architecture with its series of front porches.

4676 Lorraine Avenue, Dallas, Texas

Charles S. Dilbeck Designed this Home Which Still Enjoys it’s Original Architectural Detail

Architect Charles Dilbeck has always captured the imagination of Dallas with his charming and well composed architecture that brings out the characteristics of whimsical English cottages and the indigenous qualities of Texas Modern homes. This architecturally significant Charles Dilbeck home at 4676 Lorraine Avenue is reminiscent of 4144 Shenandoah, one of the “Four Sisters” on the corner of Shenandoah and Douglas in University Park. This home at 4676 Lorraine Avenue is designed along the length of the lot to allow sunlight to easily penetrate the home from two directions. You will enjoy the compositional series of the home clad in irregular cut stone that further treats us with rectangular and cylindrical beautifully detailed stone chimneys. You will also see a further series of wood details that include the bracketed eaves, the diagonal geometric pattern screen on part of the porch and the turned wood Texas-style porch columns with a classical inspiration.

With every expected Dilbeck feature on both the exterior and interior, this may be the most historically intact representation of Dilbeck’s interior design work.

Nancy McCoy
Leading Preservation Architect
Chair of the Board of Directors of the Dilbeck Architecture Conservancy

Search Homes in MLS Identified by Architectural Styles

Currently There Are Only 1165 MLS Homes for Sale in Dallas

Acres0.36Sqft.4,139Bed4Bath4Year2013
Acres0.26Sqft.3,734Bed4Bath4Year1993
Acres0.16Sqft.4,634Bed5Bath5Year2026
Acres0.17Sqft.3,001Bed4Bath4Year1980
Acres0.27Sqft.2,503Bed3Bath3Year1915Lot Size75x150
Acres0.35Sqft.5,441Bed5Bath5Year1968
Acres0.16Sqft.4,484Bed4Bath4Year2025Lot Size50x146
Acres0.21Sqft.3,435Bed3Bath3Year2014
Acres0.18Sqft.2,436Bed4Bath4Year2014
Acres0.17Sqft.3,496Bed4Bath4Year2000

Search Homes Previously in MLS Identified by Architectural Styles – Sold

Acres0.25Sqft.4,972Bed4Bath4Year1990
Acres0.26Sqft.4,322Bed4Bath4Year1941Lot Size73x133
Acres0.92Sqft.6,347Bed5Bath5Year1980
Acres0.3Sqft.3,601Bed4Bath4Year1967
Acres0.33Sqft.2,963Bed4Bath4Year1968Lot Size101 x 140
Acres0.76Sqft.4,180Bed4Bath4Year1923
Acres0.62Sqft.956Bed1Bath1Year2000
Acres0.16Sqft.2,791Bed4Bath4Year1935Lot Size50X142.5
Acres0.18Sqft.2,164Bed3Bath3Year1937
Acres0Sqft.11,309Bed5Bath5Year2004

See Dallas Homes for Sale in MLS with Specific Architectural Styles