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Glen Abbey Dallas Homes

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Glen Abbey is the one neighborhood in Dallas that has a guarded and gated formal entrance and the graciousness of estate properties on bluffs and creeks surrounded by a nature preserve, park, and greenbelts, only twenty minutes from downtown Dallas.

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Glen Abbey Modern Home

Modern home designed by Oglesby·Green in the Glen Abbey neighborhood.

One of the finest Architecturally Significant modern homes in Dallas is found in the gated community of Glen Abbey.

Glen Abbey Provides the Privacy, Topography, and Security You Desire

If you love an environment with endless views of beautiful land, dramatic topography, a wide flowing creek, and at the same time desire a small, secure gated and guarded prestigious neighborhood of architect designed estate homes, then Glen Abbey is perfect. The streetscape of this very quiet neighborhood reflects the high power executives, business owners, athletes, and their families that comprise the collegial atmosphere of Glen Abbey. When one enters a home in this neighborhood, the street disappears and the beautiful gardens, mature trees, and gorgeous views appear.

White Rock Creek flows behind many of the homes, separating Glen Abbey from a nature preserve and greenbelt. The sights, sounds, and lights of the city are pushed further back by Preston Trail Golf Club and Bent Tree Country Club that form a perimeter wrapping around the greenbelts adjacent to Glen Abbey neighborhood.

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Glen Abbey is a Neighborhood of Architect Designed Estate Homes

The vast original estate property of Lupe Murchison was known as being some of the most beautiful land in Dallas. Here, the Glen Abbey neighborhood was created to capture the splendor of the land for architect designed estate homes. Designed guidelines require the craftsmanship and design dexterity of fine builders and architects. The best example of the quality of architecture found in Glen Abbey is the home designed by Graham Greene of Oglesby Greene, the 2010 Dallas chapter AIA firm the year. Its front facade draws from centuries old European homes while the interior exudes modernity and opens up to nature as adeptly as any home in Dallas.

The Wagging Tail Dog Park

As a home owner in Glen Abbey, you will be able to walk your dog to Dallas’ first dog park. The city of Dallas opened Wagging Tail Dog Park in 2009. The city maintains and monitors this seven acre park for unleashed dogs and their owners to enjoy this natural setting. The Wagging Tail Dog Park located between Keller Springs Road and White Rock Creek is another amenity of nature that embraces the Glen Abbey neighborhood.

Preston Trail Golf Club and Bent Tree Country Club Further Insulate the Homes of Glen Abbey From the Commotion of a City

Concentric circles of creeks, small lakes, greenbelts, parks, and golf courses surround the Glen Abbey neighborhood. Glen Abbey is not a golf course development. Here you are looking over a bluff not a tee box. You do, however, have the advantage Preston Trail Golf Club and Bent Tree Country Club around the corner. If you are a member of Preston Trail Golf Club, you might even hike through the nature preserve and across the greenbelt and arrive on the seventh green of the golf course.

Glen Abbey is Only Twenty Minutes From Downtown Dallas

Long time Dallas residents are just beginning to realize that, with the expansion of the Dallas North Tollway and North Central Expressway, the Glen Abbey neighborhood, in what was once considered far north Dallas, is now surprisingly close to the commercial center of downtown Dallas and the Dallas arts district. The elite private schools are only ten or fifteen minutes away. Access to the private and public airports are also very convenient.

Glen Abbey Clubhouse and Exercise Facility

Glen Abbey is an easy neighborhood to stroll or take brisk walks or run through the curving streets of this private neighborhood with very little traffic. Glen Abbey homeowners can also go to the clubhouse and exercise facility for more intensive workouts.

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North Dallas, including Glen Abbey, is a great place to find a modern home for sale, Texas modern home sale, or mid-century modern home for sale.

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Jim Young, 40th employee of EDS, is presented firs Jim Young, 40th employee of EDS, is presented first ever Texas Business Hall of Fame Distinguished Service Award and given tribute by Morton Meyerson. In fact, Dallas icon Morton Meyerson, the 57th employee that became the EDS President and CEO, gave the finest and most important personal and historical tribute I have heard. Morton Meyerson said he had never told Jim Young this before, but when he arrived at EDS, which was only about two years old, it was a cold, stiff organization still trying to get established, where he felt out of place. Jim, with his elegant, warm, inclusive and supportive sense of humor, allowed him to survive and thrive at EDS. He credited Jim Young with creating a company-wide atmosphere of humanity and opportunity for the thousands of employees around the world. Pictured here are his wife, Carole Young, who has also made an incredible impact on Dallas and Texas, with even a Texas prison named after her; and Dale Petroskey, the President and CEO of the Dallas Regional Chamber of Commerce, who wrote a definitive LinkedIn post on Jim receiving this award. Dale is a good example of the incredibly successful people in Jim Young’s orbit that include Jim as a mentor, friend and inspiration, as I do. Jim Young has always placed his family (who have all been incredibly successful, including his daughter Kelly Stoetzel, who headed the TED conferences for several years and selected the TED speakers for 15 years, and his son Jim Young who received a Master’s Degree at University of Cambridge and started his own successful business) first, and treated those young and old around the world as if they were family – Jim was always incredibly interested, and generous with his thoughts, guidance and encouragement. The world is a better place because of Jim Young and everyone that knows Jim Young has benefitted. Thank you Jim! *Orbit of Jim Young
#JimYoung #CaroleYoung #DalePetroskey #OrbitOfJimYoung #Dallas #TexasBusinessHallOfFame #Mentor #Leader #Inspiration @TexasBusinessHallOfFame
Crosstown Expressway connecting Interstate Highway Crosstown Expressway connecting Interstate Highway 30 to Central Expressway was imminent. Its dedicated path included Munger Boulevard as it was supposed to cut through a dozen Old East Dallas historic neighborhoods. Before the Trinity Toll Road proposal, before the Klyde Warren deck park, and before any movement to reduce or eliminate roads, the homeowners in Old East Dallas did what seemed impossible – they stopped Crosstown Expressway. Crosstown Expressway was eliminated and Munger Boulevard actually had two lanes of traffic removed to enable a landscaped median to be installed reflecting the Munger Brothers original development. Further, Collett and Fitzhugh, that had been one-way couplets, were returned to two-way residential streets interspersed with stop signs. In a neighborhood where a highway had been planned, high speed through-traffic streets were returned to residential streets. The transportation travesty of Crosstown was transformed to a corridor of nature. Please note the 20 miles per hour school zone sign allowing children to walk to school. *History of a Highway
#MungerBoulevard #CrosstownExpressway #Fitzhugh #Collett #MungerPlace #OldEastDallas #HistoricNeighborhoods #DallasHistory #Dallas #DallasNeighborhoods
Whenever I go to London I try to stop by The Court Whenever I go to London I try to stop by The Courtauld Institute of Art. It was the first London museum I visited years ago on my initial visit to London. The Courtauld resonated with me for many reasons. I love the architecture. Sir William Chambers in 1775 designed the building that replaced the original 1552 home of the Duke of Somerset. The paintings were predominately lit by natural sunlight in a salon-like setting of dark wood floors, enormous ceilings and tall windows. In the first room on one wall was A Bar at the Folies-Bergere by Edouard Manet. I had first seen this Manet painting when it was on loan at the Chicago Art Institute for a blockbuster exhibition. Ropes were placed eight feet away from the painting enclosed in glass. People were standing three deep. On my first visit to The Courtauld, when I approached an almost empty room, I asked the guard how close could I get to the painting. The guard replied, “Oh, about six inches.” How can you not love a museum that has a fabulous ceremonial staircase, a living room/salon setting for a lovely Manet that one can view at an unhurried pace from any distance. On my last visit right before the pandemic, The Courtauld was shut down for renovation. This trip was my first return. The building and approach is still magical. It brought back memories of seeing then Prince Charles just a few feet away getting into his Jaguar as he departed the museum. The interior of the renovated museum is now opened up with art lighting and light wood floors. Paintings share spaces with several other paintings on the extended walls. The renovation was necessary. It now has a much better event space for fundraisers, private dinners, events and parties. The galleries are better lit and feel more up to date. However, it reminds me of why homeowners go back to their original home and wonder why it has been changed. On this visit, Chinese nationals for their London university art class, asked me to write my feelings on a photocopy of the painting. I wrote “highlighted and hidden.” *The Courtauld Update
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Builders use staircases trying to reflect, in thei Builders use staircases trying to reflect, in their traditional spec homes, the grandeur of great European houses. Bill McKenzie, an editorial board member for the Dallas Morning News in the 1990s, asked me, for an editorial he was writing, for examples of the difference in “Big Hair Houses,” starting to dominate Dallas streets, with architect designed homes. As always, Bill asks thoughtful questions that had me reviewing homes with this question in mind. I provided examples including: architects used real bookshelves in the library off the front door, while builders might use bookshelf wallpaper. Where builders would often stack 16 inches of ceiling molding, architects might design 8-inch moldings - more expensive to create but more elegant. However, what I most remember were these Big Hair houses in University Park in Dallas on standard size lots often had two staircases just as one might find in a European estate home. The difference was that the two staircases in Big Hair builder homes, only a room or two away from each other, were almost identical in size, rise and treads. While in architect designed estate homes, the primary staircase was much grander and the servant stairs were steep and narrow indicating a hierarchy of stairs. The best example of this in Dallas is the Crespi Estate, designed by architect Maurice Fatio in 1939. In London, I was reminded of this in the Somerset House now housing The Courtauld Institute of Art. The primary staircase is elegant and inviting, making it enjoyable to walk to the third-floor galleries. As you slide through the images, you will see the secondary stairs, steep, narrow and forbidding. Generic builders often build spec homes just for show; architects design homes for show and purpose. *Hierarchy of Stairs
#Stairs #TheCourtauld #Architect #ArchitectDesign #EstateHomes #BuilderHomes #HierarchyOfStairs #London #Historic #SomersetHouse
London light, uninterrupted by tall buildings, ill London light, uninterrupted by tall buildings, illuminates the architectural detail and relief of London’s significant historic buildings. Luminescence prevails even on damp days. A blue sky is a welcome change in the monotony of a grey London landscape. Bright lights and Christmas lights add ornamentation to architecturally significant buildings already heavily ornamented with stone carvings and architectural detail. I have decided London light is more profound because it is distributed in a judicial way, somehow only illuminating the best historically significant buildings, leaving the flat-faced generic ones cast in dull shadows. Even the glitz of New Bond Street has a patina of glimmer. *London Light
#Light #Shadow #Luminescence #London #ArchitecturallySignificant #HistoricallySignificant #NewBond #Historic #Architecture #Historic #LondonLandmarks
Trees announce a neighborhood. One immediately rec Trees announce a neighborhood. One immediately recognizes Highland Park as the most expensive neighborhood in Dallas because of the abundant trees that grace the architecturally significant homes. One cannot see the good police and fire departments or good teachers, but one can immediately enjoy the trees lit by landscape lighting in the summer or Christmas lights in December. When Munger Place was at its nadir, the few artists and urban pioneer homeowners in the neighborhood planted parkway trees – the first sign of revitalization.  New curbs, sidewalks, antique streetlights replacing telephone poles and lamps created additional confidence for new homeowners returning divided up renthouses back to single family homes. I grew up with tree-tunneled streets in Hinsdale and visualized the same for Munger Place. Now, every season I marvel when I ride my bike through this Munger Place tunnel of color – bright green buds in spring, deep dark greens in summer, and yellow, oranges and reds in the fall. *Tunnel of Color
#Tree #ParkwayTrees #MungerPlace #Revitalization #Dallas #DallasNeighborhood #HighlandPark #TreeTunnel #autumncolors

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