BenH Posted May 1, 2008 Share Posted May 1, 2008 I know I posted this house a while back as a 'whodunit' type of thread, but since I can't find it, I'll repost entirely. This house is located on a flag lot a few houses down from Wylie Vale's Raymond Schindler House at 17 West Lane Place and Bolton & Barnstone's Farfel house at 18 West Lane Place. A flag lot is fairly unique to the Tall Timbers section of River Oaks, in which owners of these large lots have an option to sell a large piece of their property (usually the front half) off to someone else. Other neighborhoods (like Stillforest) have lots like this, as well. I stumbled on this house one afternoon while looking for the aforementioned Schindler house. You can barely see it from the street (you kind of have to look over a new palace's shoulder to see it). It appears to be excellently maintained, too. I contacted the usual authorities and they were stumped, so I wrote a letter to the owner (I won't use his name to maintain his privacy), and he returned my letter this week. He's originally from Dallas, and had Dallas-based architect Scott Lyons design his house in 1970. Lyons was a long-time employee of O'neil Ford (he's mentioned multiple times in the book O'neil Ford: Architect. He also designed many houses in the Preston Hollow and Turtle Creek neighborhoods of Dallas. Here are a few of his projects that have been for sale in the past few years: http://www.dougnewby.com/Architecture/Arch...scott_lyons.asp http://www.dougnewby.com/dmh/texasmodern/p.../10240_gaywood/ Notice the similiar materials and exquisite detailing. Here's another example by O'neil Ford: http://www.dougnewby.com/dmh/texasmodern/p...455_northbrook/ So there's another one identified, which has turned out to be a previously unknown treasure. Let's hope there's a few more out there. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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