Posts Tagged ‘Architecture’
By Bruce Felps Work officially began yesterday on the $14 million, 40,000-square-foot expansion at Woodrow Wilson High School. Well, it began in a ceremonial kind of way. School officials, students then and now, community members, and a few Dallas ISD types — an estimated crowd of about 200 — gathered for yesterday’s groundbreaking ceremony. Read a fairly [...]
Community Contribution A groundbreaking ceremony for the new science and performing arts wing at Woodrow takes place at 10 a.m., May 23. Alumni, parents, and the community are invited to take part. The $14 million, 40,000-square-foot structure was authorized in a 2008 DISD bond election. It is only the third extension of the school in [...]
By Bruce Felps Woodrow Wilson High School officials, alumni, students, and parents, along with Dallas ISD dignitaries and supporting members of the community gather on Woodrow campus next week for a groundbreaking ceremony.
By Bruce Felps Slightly more than a year after fire all but claimed the nostalgic-if-not-historic building along the west side of Lower Greenville Avenue’s 2800 block, the first of three restaurants — Dodie’s — gets ready to open for business next week. Nancy Visser of the Dallas Morning News, today reported the Cajun eatery plans [...]
By Bruce Felps East Dallas contains an abundance of older houses. If they were cars, they’d be classified as antiques or, in some cases, relics. Mine would be “ruins.” Junius Heights resident and head of the neighborhood crime watch program Suzanne O’Brien and her husband own such a house on Victor Street. They’ve worked and [...]
By Bruce Felps Restoration work, some already under way, will spruce up J.L. Long Middle School and Woodrow Wilson High School during the summer and into next school year. According to Preservation magazine, published by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, $3.7 million from a $1.35 billion bond program will go toward a Long facelift, [...]
By Bruce Felps Mother’s Day rolls around this weekend — May 8, to be precise — and with it comes the annual Swiss Avenue Historic District Mother’s Day Home Tour. This year’s installment — 10 a.m.-6 p.m., May 7, and Mother’s Day brunch 11 a.m.-2 p.m., May 8, with the tour running noon-6 p.m., Sunday [...]
By Bruce Felps There is no shortage of events happening around East Dallas this weekend for your entertainment pleasure. You got your White Rock Lake Festival. The Leukemia Regatta sails the rock. Then there’s the Hollywood Home Tour. Check out the chicken coops because you’ve never seen one … or you have and thought it [...]
By Bruce Felps This year’s installment, the 20th, of the annual Hollywood Home Tour in Hollywood-Santa Monica takes place this weekend. It runs from noon-6 p.m., April 30 and May 1, and tour admission costs $10. Tickets are available at Curiosities or at Lindsley Park on tour days.
By Bruce Felps Check out some mid-century modern homes and help out an early-century, this one, generation of elementary school students. The sixth annual White Rock Home Tour takes place noon-5 p.m., April 16 and 17, at five modern architecture homes in the Old Lake Highlands area and Forest Hills.
