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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Historic Halloween – 1944 (75 years ago)

By |2019-10-23T17:40:37+00:00October 23rd, 2019|Accessories, children's clothing, Children's Toys, Dallas History, Dallas People, Pumpkins, Texans, Women|

Halloween articles in the Dallas Morning News are a bit of a buzz kill.  The articles are lamenting the fact that candles, paper [...]

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On This Day In Dallas History – 75 years ago

By |2019-10-17T18:11:19+00:00October 17th, 2019|Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, detective, graves, Men, Murders, rail lines, Texans, train history, trains, Women|

Dallas Morning News, October 17, 1944 Fatal Shooting Brings Dismissal of Divorce Suit Judge John A. Rawlins Monday dismissed a divorce suit styled: [...]

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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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H.H. Holmes and Minnie Williams – bonus episode

By |2019-09-19T02:18:42+00:00September 19th, 2019|Chicago world's fair, Columbian Exposition, Dallas History, Deaths, fort worth, Men, Murders|

Most articles (even contemporary newspapers) list Minnie Williams' uncle as Dr. JRP Williams, having died in 1878. Well, I found him - all [...]

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H.H. Holmes in DFW, Part XXIV

By |2019-09-03T17:12:13+00:00September 3rd, 2019|Chicago world's fair, Columbian Exposition, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, detective, fort worth, hanging, jail, Men, Murders, oak cliff, philadelphia, Private Investigators, Texans|

For our final (!) post about H.H. Holmes in this twenty-four part series (!), we return to Frank Geyer.  Remember our tenacious Philadelphia [...]

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