Once upon a time, Highland Park played host to homes that weren’t all so architecturally significant. You could also find a charming colonial cottage. In fact, you could find plenty of them.
Let’s step back in time for a moment to reflect on why these homes are so important.
Hugh Prather and Edgar Flippen were the sons of John Armstrong, who is widely acknowledged as the father of Highland Park. Together they formed Flippen-Prather Realty Company. Over the course of 40 years, they implemented Armstrong’s plan to develop 1,400 acres of Highland Park real estate.
The very best resource on Highland Park is The Great American Suburbs: the Homes of The Park Cities, Dallas by Virginia Savage McAlester, Willis Cecil Winters, and Prudence Mackintosh, published in 2008. Their research was extensive, and if you want to know more, I highly recommend getting your hands on a copy. They had the following to say:
Highland Park has national importance as an early, high-quality, fully planned, and developed suburb. It has received little recent press outside of Texas, yet in the early twentieth century, it attracted national attention and accolades for its quality. The decisions made by Armstong and the town’s developers, the Flippen-Prather Realty Company, were invariably farsighted and have stood the test of time.
And that is my entire point about this charming 1,642-square-foot two-bedroom, two-bathroom colonial cottage. It has stood the test of time. It offers a window into history but has also been beautifully updated to reflect how a modern family uses a home.
“It has a wonderful, split bedroom floor plan with a huge principal bedroom suite and spacious walk-in closet,” Allie Beth Allman listing agent Karen Luter said.
This charming colonial cottage is perfect for a variety of owners. I can easily see it as a fit for a young couple or if you, like many, are ditching the big house in the burbs to come back to the city, it’s also a terrific empty-nester perch.
I was thrilled to see the home was staged by George Bass Stage & Design because potential buyers can often be challenged to visualize a home of any size. If I were you, I’d negotiate for the furniture and move right in!
Luter has 4657 Southern Avenue listed for $988,500.
