Before there was Perry Heights, there was Cedar Springs. Drive down Cedar Springs Road today and it’s easy to forget that the name describes something that was actually here. Long before Perry Heights was established in 1922, natural springs and streams helped define this part of Dallas. By the 1840s, a small settlement called Cedar …
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Ice Cream Castle
This stunning colonial revival home at 4322 Rawlins was built in 1923. The first residents were the Smith family who were the owners of The Smith Ice Cream Company. of Dallas. Charles Winston Smith and his wife Jinnie May and their three children, C. Russell Jr., J. Louis, and Helen lived in the house until …
Perry Heights Home of Oak Lawn Pioneer
Llora Cullum Pierce moved into this home at 4322 Hall Street in 1924 when she was 59, with her three children after her husband died after two years of ill health in 1923. Her husband was Rev. John Foster Pierce who taught at Southern Methodist University since 1920 after preaching all across Texas in various …
Edward Gordon Perry, Sr.
Edward Gordon Perry grew up in a little town called Woodville, Tennessee, about two hours east of Memphis. As a young man in 1908, he moved to El Paso and was the first businessman in El Paso to begin selling Fords in 1912 (the model T type) along with his brother-in-law. Three years later he …