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5421   5411

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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