Old Red Siblings – Missouri Edition

By |2020-02-12T16:41:17+00:00February 12th, 2020|architecture, art, castle, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Design, Old Red Museum, Texans|

Old Red has siblings!  Feast your eyes upon the Jasper County Courthouse in Joplin Missouri.  It is a paler twin of Old Red! [...]

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Old Red Museum – Romanesque Explained

By |2020-02-12T16:34:12+00:00February 10th, 2020|architecture, art, castle, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Old Red Museum|

Old Red Museum is in the Richardsonian Romanesque style.  The original Romanesque style was popular in western Europe in the 11th, 12th, and [...]

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Old Red Museum

By |2020-02-10T16:13:19+00:00February 10th, 2020|architecture, castle, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Design, john neely bryan, Men, Old Red Museum, Texans|

What used to be the Dallas county courthouse is now the Old Red Museum.  It is located on land platted by John Neely [...]

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H.H. Holmes in DFW, Part XXIII

By |2019-09-03T16:50:52+00:00August 31st, 2019|architecture, castle, cemeteries, Columbian Exposition, Dallas History, Dallas People, Fires, fort worth, graves, hanging, jail, Men, Murders, oak cliff, philadelphia, Texans|

What type of burial does a serial killer request in the late 1890s?  Well, if you are H.H. Holmes/Herman Mudgett, you request to [...]

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H.H. Holmes in Dallas, Part XI

By |2019-07-31T01:16:13+00:00July 31st, 2019|architecture, castle, cemeteries, Chicago world's fair, Columbian Exposition, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, Design, fort worth, graves, Men, Murders, oak cliff, train history, trains, Women|

After killing Minnie and her sister Nannie Williams in the Chicagoland area in 1893/94, H. H. Holmes quickly moved to claim his ill-gotten [...]

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H.H. Holmes in Dallas, Part IX

By |2019-07-24T00:37:34+00:00July 24th, 2019|architecture, castle, Chicago world's fair, Columbian Exposition, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, graves, Men, Murders, oak cliff, Texans, Women|

Image: a drawing of a quick lime grave from the basement of the ‘Murder Castle’, belonging to H.H. Holmes, aka Herman Mudgett.  He [...]

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H.H. Holmes in Dallas, Part VII

By |2019-07-17T23:30:25+00:00July 17th, 2019|architecture, art, brothel, castle, cemeteries, Chicago world's fair, Columbian Exposition, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, Men, Murders, oak cliff, rail lines, South Dallas, Texans, train history, trains, Women|

Famous Serial Killer with Links to Dallas Herman Mudgett, aka H.H. Holmes, had been killing women in his ‘murder’ hotel in the shadows [...]

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H.H. Holmes in Dallas, Part VI

By |2019-07-10T17:38:11+00:00July 10th, 2019|architecture, castle, Chicago world's fair, Columbian Exposition, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, Design, Men, Murders, oak cliff, rail lines, Texans, train history, trains, Women|

Famous Serial Killer with Ties to Dallas Who is this Herman Mudgett/H.H. Holmes character?  How is he luring young women all the way [...]

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H. H. Holmes and Dallas, Part V

By |2019-07-09T23:49:29+00:00July 9th, 2019|architecture, art, castle, Chicago world's fair, Columbian Exposition, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, Design, Men, South Dallas, Texans, trains, Women|

Famous Serial Killer with Ties to Dallas   Minnie Williams, Dallas-area heiress, travels to Chicago during the early months of 1893. She is [...]

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H.H. Holmes in Dallas, Part IV

By |2019-07-01T16:24:42+00:00July 1st, 2019|architecture, art, castle, Chicago world's fair, colorado, Columbian Exposition, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, Men, Murders, oak cliff, South Dallas, trains, Women|

Famous Serial Killer with Ties to Dallas Minnie Williams, a local Dallas victim of the serial killer Herman Mudgett/H.H.Holmes, completed her Boston musical [...]

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