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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Thank the parking gods

By |2020-02-10T02:28:06+00:00February 10th, 2020|architecture, art, brothel, Chicago world's fair, Columbian Exposition, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, deadwood, Deaths, department stores|

I had the most fun with Bill, Karen, Becca and Alex yesterday on our tour. So much fun that we ran way over [...]

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Famous Jail Cell, Part III

By |2020-01-29T17:12:13+00:00January 29th, 2020|architecture, brothel, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, jail, Men, Murders, police, Politics, Texans|

Our famous jail cell at 106 S. Harwood Street in Dallas is now part of the UNT-Dallas Law School.  This cell became famous [...]

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Famous Jail Cell, part II

By |2020-01-28T22:57:23+00:00January 28th, 2020|architecture, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, jail, Men, Murders, police, Texans|

Our famous jail cell held Lee Harvey Oswald!  Several people guessed that, but it is only partially correct.  Another famous guest was held [...]

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Famous Jail Cell

By |2020-01-28T00:55:28+00:00January 28th, 2020|architecture, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, detective, jail, Men, night clubs, police, Politics, Texans|

Trivia!  This Dallas jail cell is quite famous.  Who did it hold? Find out in our next post who was held in the [...]

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Magnolia Building

By |2020-01-07T18:25:43+00:00January 7th, 2020|adolphus, architecture, art, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Magnolia Building, Pegasus|

The Pegasus, symbol of Dallas, is often viewed atop the Magnolia Hotel.  What is now referred to as the Magnolia Hotel used to [...]

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Pegasus Found!

By |2020-01-06T01:23:21+00:00January 4th, 2020|architecture, art, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Design, Magnolia Building, Old Red Museum, Texans, Texas State Fair, West End|

Our previous posts dealt with the (relatively) new Pegasus atop the Magnolia Hotel that was lit to celebrate New Year's Eve going in [...]

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