In 1920, George Washington Wesley Swor was thriving in Dallas, Texas. A seasoned real estate agent, he built a successful career in the city’s booming property market and secured a prestigious role as head of the rental department at Robinson-Styron Realty Company on Field Street downtown. At home, he enjoyed a stable family life with …
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You may have noticed the unassuming house for sale at 4331 N. Hall. Beyond the overgrown shrubs, you will find how many of the homes in Perry Heights looked 80 or 90 years ago. You can see the extremely narrow driveway going straight back to the garage ready for a Model T. The original single-paned …
As Perry Heights developed house by house in the 1920s, Lemmon Avenue was the address of some of the grandest homes in the city. Prominent houses and trees lined the avenue from Downtown to Lomo Alto Drive. Lemmon Ave. was named after William H. Lemmon who was a Confederate captain turned real estate developer in …
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In 1936, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Irwin Payne hired architect, Ralph Bryan, to design their home at 4524 Rawlins Street in the style of a Louisiana plantation home. They toured several Louisiana plantation homes to collect what Mr. Payne wanted in his own home. The site was at the corner of Rawlins and Hawthorne, right …
