Pegasus Lost

By |2020-01-04T17:17:29+00:00January 4th, 2020|architecture, art, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Design, detective, Magnolia Building, Pegasus, White Rock Lake|

Yesterday we highlighted the Pegasus atop the Magnolia Building on Commerce Street.  That Pegasus is a mere 20 years old.  The 86 year [...]

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Nevermore – the Southland Life Insurance Building

By |2019-11-21T19:48:20+00:00November 21st, 2019|architecture, art, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, department stores, Design, Freemasons|

Next up in our Nevermore series - one of the earliest 'skyscrapers' in Dallas history. This may look like a fairly typical tall [...]

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Nevermore – Dallas Automobile Country Club

By |2019-11-14T17:27:55+00:00November 14th, 2019|architecture, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Design, Men, Texans, Women|

Next up in our nevermore series:  automobile destination clubs. During the 19teens and 1920s, automobiles were becoming all the rage. Entire industries sprung [...]

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Nevermore – City Hall

By |2019-11-14T02:34:19+00:00November 14th, 2019|adolphus, architecture, art, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Design, Texans, West End, Women|

Our latest dive in to Nevermore architecture is this version of Dallas City Hall.  It stood for a little more than 20 years [...]

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Nevermore – Ursuline Convent

By |2019-11-11T17:40:50+00:00November 11th, 2019|architecture, art, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Design, Texans, Women|

Here is our next nevermore structure - the original building of the Ursuline Convent completed in the 1880s in Dallas. There would be [...]

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Nevermore – St. Paul’s Sanitarium

By |2019-11-11T00:22:05+00:00November 11th, 2019|architecture, art, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Design, Texans, West End|

Adding to our pile of nevermore buildings, here is a beauty!  This is St. Paul's Sanitarium - this building is so delightful it [...]

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Nevermore – Ross Avenue Hotel

By |2019-11-06T15:51:05+00:00November 6th, 2019|architecture, art, Black History, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Texans|

The Ross Avenue motel catered to traveling African Americans up until the 1960s.  Before that time, it was almost impossible for black travelers [...]

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Nevermore, the Times Herald Building

By |2019-11-06T04:09:01+00:00November 6th, 2019|architecture, art, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, Design, police, Private Investigators, Texans|

This rainy weather has me in a funk and so I am starting a series on Dallas buildings that are nevermore. Feast thine [...]

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Cooling Weather

By |2019-09-23T18:17:40+00:00September 23rd, 2019|art, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Design, fort worth, Men, Murders, Pumpkins, Texans, Women|

The weather is cooling down.  Book a walking tour with us for either the Dallas West End or the Garland Square. View our [...]

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