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MTLE COMMUNICATOR
THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL of the HISTORIC PRESERVATION LEAGUE, INC.Vol. 3 No. 2
HPL HIRES FIRST
EXECUTIVE DIRECTORThe Historic Preservation League, Inc.
is pleased to announce that Susan Mead
is now Executive Director of the League.
Susan has been a member of our orga-
nization for some time and brings excel-
lent qualifications to the newly created
position. She has a B.A. in Art History
from Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. and
just recently received her J.D. from
Southern Methodist University Law
School in Dallas. Her interest in pre-
servation began in 1969 when she re-
East Dallas
Rezoning Unanimously
Approved By
Council
Wednesday, August 17th marked the
successful completion of years of meeting
and planning by city planners and area
community groups to create proper zoning
in the 759 acres known as "Old East
Dallas." The City Council unanimously
approved the plan after a 3-hour public
hearing. The area (roughly bounded by
Haskell, Live Oak, Gaston, Paulus, the
Santa Fe Railroad Track, Munger and
Columbia) is divided into ten sections
with appropriate zoning for each one.
Bob Logan, Doug Newby, and Don
Criswell, East Dallas Design Committee
Chairman, conducted a 30-minute presen-
tation which included slides of the area
and speakers from many of the concerned
neighborhoods. All advocates spoke to the
urgent need for residential zoning to sta-
bilize the neighborhoods and encourage
the present trend of renovation of older
homes. Opposition to the plan centered on
the definition of and city plans from non-
conforming structures in re-zoned areas.
City Planning Director Jim Schroeder re-
peatedly assured property owners that
there will be no increased efforts to re-
move structures which no longer conform.
Lower Munger Place, where the HPL's
Revolving Fund has been operating, was
zoned for PlannedaDevelopment. Area
residents and the League are pleased with
this zoning designation and grateful to
city planning staffers, hard-working neigh-
bors, and the City Council for their efforts
in this project.
HPL Gains
Administrative
Assistant
Mimi Crain joined us in the middle of
August as the new Administrative Assis-
tant of the League. She has already been
a valuable asset and brings excellent
qualifications to the organization. Mimi
has an A.A. from Bradford Junior Col-
lege, Bradford, Mass, and a B.A. in his-
tory from S.M.U., Dallas. She served as
Research Assistant at the Star of the
Republic Museum, Washington-on-the-
Brazos and Executive Director of Historic
Anderson, Inc., Anderson, Texas. Wel-
come Mimi.
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(back page)stored an 1820 farmhouse in Simsbury,
Connecticut. Since that time she has con-
tinued to augment her preservation back-
ground with a year in Washington, D. C.
working for the National Trust for His-
toric Preservation and the National
Register of Historic Places. Susan has
been very busy since she first arrived in
May with such responsibilities as the
Revolving Fund, the Urban Pioneer Tour,
El Centro, and setting up our new office
at 2211 North Lamar.
The election of ten new board members
was accomplished at the annual meeting
of the HPL on April 28th. The recom-
mended slate of the nominating commit-
tee, headed by Lyn Dunsavage, was
unanimously approved. The League is
grateful to the committee and extremely
proud to introduce the following new
board members:
John Cra, Director of the Dallas His-
torical Society, who has served on the
HPL Board one year filling an unexpired
term; who has served on the Communica-
tions Committee of the East Dallas Cham-
ber of Commerce and is a resident of
North Dallas.
Joan Criswell, Chair of the Urban Pio-
neer House Tour, 1977, and East Dallas
Chair, 1976; member of the Munger
Place Homeowners Association, and mem-
ber of the Heritage Society; owner of
Heritage Interiors.
Mrs. Mary (Dave) Fox, who loves his-
tory, antiques and preservation of old
buildings; member of the Museum of Fine
Arts and the Heritage Society.
Mary Griffin, past president and public
relations chair of the Old Oak Cliff Con-
servation League and prime mover in the
backzoning case in Winnetka Heights.
Ms. Dorothy Masterson, Chair of the
Tenant Relocation Program for the His-
toric Dallas Fund, 1977; on the Board of
the Dallas County Community Action
Agency, and active in the Human Re-
sources Committee of the League of
Woman Voters.
Dr. Lee McAlester, S.M.U., Chair of
the Development Committee, of the His-
toric Dallas Fund.
Mrs. Margarita Bohny O'Brien, long-
time volunteer in the HPL Office and with
HPL functions and professional estate
sales person.
Mrs. Charles (Ruth Collins) Sharp, born
and brought up on Swiss Avenue; active
in numerous civic organizations such as
the Jr. League (President), Visiting Nurses
Organization; Woman's Club (President);
theatre in the Meadows Art Center, SMU,
is named after Ruth Collins Sharp.
Downing Thomas, AIA, Past President
of the AIA, Dallas Chapter; presently
Chair of the East Dallas Design Task
Force; Partner Thomas-Booziotis firm;
Chair of Urban Design Task Force for
the City of Dallas; Remodeled Florence
Hall, School of Law, SMU.
Walter Dahlberg, Partner Myrick, New-
man & Dahlberg, landscape architects
and well-known for his extensive land-
scape work with the City of Dallas.
- ASK A FRIEND TO JOIN --First Annual Griffon
Awards PresentedFour area preservationists received the
HPL's first Annual Griffon Awards on
April 29th at the Annual Membership
luncheon held at the Baker Hotel down-
town. The Award is represented by a 6
inch high replica of the 4 foot high
griffon perched atop the "Old Red" court
house and is given to individuals who
have made outstanding contributions in
the field of historic preservation. Re-
cipients of the new award were Mrs.
Sawnie Aldredge (posthumous), Mrs.
Joseph J. Ballard, Jr., Weiming Lu, and
Reginal N. Whitman.
Mrs. Aldredge, who died in 1975, was
recognized for her efforts to preserve
Millermore, an old Oak Cliff mansion
now restored in City Park, and for the
creation of the Dallas County Heritage
Society. Mrs. Ballard received the award
for her efforts in the preservation ofThistle Hill in Ft. Worth, a home built in
1912 by General Winfield Scott and threa-
tened with demolition. Mrs. Ballard
headed the fund-raising drive to purchase
and restore the old mansion. Weiming Lu,
assistant director for Urban Design in the
Department of City Planning, was cited
for his contributions to the creation of the
Swiss Avenue Historic District, the West
End Historic District, and the South
Boulevard-Park Row Historic District.
Mr. Whitman, chairman of the board and
president of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas
Railroad Company, received the Griffon
Award for his current efforts in restoring
the Katy Building in the Westend Ware-
house Historic District.
The awards committee, headed by Mrs.
Max Clampitt, did an excellent job in
reviewing nominations and arranging the
awards and the luncheon.f
Leslie Golden, HPL's summer interne, photographs a detail of an old Oak CliffI
her survey of Victorian houses in the city.home for
Photo by Ron Roach, Oak Cliff Tribune
Student Intern Surveys
Victorias ResidencesLeslie Golden, a Spring graduate of
the University of California at Berkeley,
has been working with the League since
June 6 on a windshield survey of Vic-
torian houses in Dallas. The survey, made
possible by the Summer Intern Program
of the National Trust, is identifying exist-
ing inner city homes that were built in
the late nineteenth or early twentieth
centuries. Significant houses will be iden-
tified and further researched. This infor-
mation, filed and made readily available
to interested organizations and individuals,will be invaluable in neighborhood pre-
servation and house-moving projects.
The survey has been carefully coordinated
with the survey recently initiated by the
Texas State and Dallas County Historical
Commissions to avoid duplication of
effort and to insure the most wide-spread
and efficient use of the compiled data.
According to Ms. Golden, over 500
houses built before 1905 are still stand-
ing. Most of these homes are 1 to 2
story structures, built in the vernacular
style rather than in high Victorian.Sept.1977
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