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YEAR BUILT: 1918
ARCHITECT/BUILDER: Bertram Hill
ORIGINAL OWNER: E.P. Greenwood
ORIGINAL
DESCRIPTION:
The entry portico was changed leaving the original wooden fretwork false balconies on the second floor in the 1920s. This open work design is matched by brick relief under the center bathrrom windows. The use of semi-circular arched windows, and elliptical fan light ver the main door and a horsehow shaped window in the dormer give a discordant effect that the original portico did little to relieve. The roof of this house is an unusual variation of the jerkinhead form. It was originally flanked by twin third floor terraces.
OF INTEREST: E.P. Greenwood was vice president of the Great Southwestern Life Insurance Company. The four large columns across the front of this home are not original. They were added by one of the owners, who removed them from his family homestead in another section of Dallas.