Nevermore – the Southland Life Insurance Building
Next up in our Nevermore series - one of the earliest 'skyscrapers' in Dallas history. This may look like a fairly typical tall [...]
Nevermore – City Hall
Our latest dive in to Nevermore architecture is this version of Dallas City Hall. It stood for a little more than 20 years [...]
Nevermore – Ursuline Convent
Here is our next nevermore structure - the original building of the Ursuline Convent completed in the 1880s in Dallas. There would be [...]
Nevermore – St. Paul’s Sanitarium
Adding to our pile of nevermore buildings, here is a beauty! This is St. Paul's Sanitarium - this building is so delightful it [...]
Nevermore – Ross Avenue Hotel
The Ross Avenue motel catered to traveling African Americans up until the 1960s. Before that time, it was almost impossible for black travelers [...]
Nevermore, the Times Herald Building
This rainy weather has me in a funk and so I am starting a series on Dallas buildings that are nevermore. Feast thine [...]
Historic Halloween – 50 years ago (1969)
PASTIES REAL HALLOWEEN TREAT Dallas Morning News, October 1969 “When Halloween rolls around, youngsters (both young and old) will be out trick [...]
State Fair of Texas – Pumpkins!
Went to the State Fair last night. It was extremely quiet - hardly anyone there. We got to poke in to corners of [...]
Cooling Weather
The weather is cooling down. Book a walking tour with us for either the Dallas West End or the Garland Square. View our [...]
H.H. Holmes in Dallas, Part VIII
Famous Serial Killer with Links to Dallas, Part VIII H.H. Holmes, active serial killer in Chicago during the Columbia Exposition of 1893, has [...]