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| YEAR
BUILT: |
1916 |
| ARCHITECT/BUILDER: |
Unknown |
| ORIGINAL
OWNER: |
Arthur
J. Langford |
ORIGINAL
DESCRIPTION: |
Two
story 4-Square/Prairie w/Spanish Baroque details. Painted
brick. Composition roof. Low hip roof; dormer w/Spanish
style parapet and brackets. Brick piers w/arched openings
on entry porch extend to form corners of parapet wall
of second floor balcony; red tile visor roof; brackets;
geometric brick design on proch parapet and dormer parapet.
Deep full width raised and covered porch. Recessed two
story porte cochere on right. (Main roof was originally
of red tiel; the porch roof retains this tile). |
| OF
INTEREST: |
The
first resident was Arthur Langford, head of the Ford Motor
Company assembly plant in Dallas. At one point the home,
which has "tigerwood" throughout the entire first floor,
was used as a halfway house for young teenagers. |
| VIDEOS: |
• Swiss Avenue Historic District - Mother's Day Home Tour 2006 |
| PHOTO GALLERY: |
Feb 14, 2004 - Most snow since 1985
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