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Harris-Savage Home (RTHL #17586, [20] 2013), 5703 Swiss Ave.—Constructed in 1917 for P.A. Ritter, later occupants of the home included William A. Turner, a Texas oil field pioneer, and W.R. Harris, who was a prosecutor during the impeachment of Texas Governor James Ferguson by the Texas Legislature, and Wallace Savage, a former mayor of Dallas.
An advertisement for the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad in an 1881 Dallas city directory. By 1880, the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, under the leadership of Jay Gould, reached Dallas. [9] In 1885, the Main Street was lit with electricity. [10] In 1888, the Dallas Zoo opened making it the first zoological garden in the state. [11]
In 1880, the first telephone switchboard came to Dallas, linking the water company and the fire station. [2] In 1885, the Main Street was lit with electricity. [3] In 1888, the Dallas Zoo opened as the first zoo in the state. [4] In 1890, Dallas annexed the geographically-larger city of East Dallas, making it the most populous city in Texas. [1]
It borders downtown to the south at Woodall Rodgers Freeway, Bryan Place to the east at US 75 (Central Expressway), and LoMac to the north and west. The State Thomas neighborhood contains the largest collection of Victorian-era homes remaining in Dallas [1] including the Jacob and Eliza Spake House listed on the National Register of Historic ...
United States Post Office and Courthouse [76] 400 N. Ervay Street residential Union Station [77] 400 S. Houston Street May 29, 1975 1979 commercial Wales Apartments [78] 4515 Live Oak Street Warwick Melrose – Dallas [79] 3015 Oak Lawn Avenue hotel Western Union Building [80] 2028–2034 Main Street commercial White Rock Bath House [81] 521 ...
An early Dallas settler, Nussbaumer came to North Texas as part of the utopian La Reunion colony established just west of Dallas in the 1850s. [11] Frederick and Henrietta had a son, Laurence Frederick (1895–1981), and a daughter, Irma (1897–1918).
The West End Historic District of Dallas, Texas, is a historic district that includes a 67.5-acre (27.3 ha) area in northwest downtown, generally north of Commerce, east of I-35E, west of Lamar and south of the Woodall Rodgers Freeway.
The building's office floors were planned to be converted into loft apartments. [4] In 2010 the building was one of several in the Main Street District to be purchased by Timothy Headington, developer of The Joule Hotel, with plans for redevelopment. [20] Soon after, the city of Dallas confirmed plans to demolish the building.