The Parks Estate is reborn

For the past few years, the Joseph and Lucy Parks Estate in East Dallas has been a source of concern for the neighborhood. Since it's construction in 1922 it has gone from grand home to YMCA to derelict building and now back to grand home. These travails were documented early last year in this article in the Dallas Morning News. Soon afterwards, through the efforts of Preservation Dallas and concerned neighbors, the house was purchased by Tom and Kathi Lind who undertook restoration of the house as their new home.

On Saturday, July 19, 2008 the restored house was unveiled to the public. That morning, Preservation Dallas held one of their 2008 Summer Preservation Institute classes there, led by Norman Alston with the assistance of general Contractor Rick Carter and Landscape/Irrigation specialist Ron Hall.

That evening, an open house was held for the anxious neighbors. By all estimates, at least 200 people toured the completed restoration.

In the early 1920’s prominent Dallas businessman Joseph Parks hired the up-and-coming local architect Clarence Bulger to design a new home to be located on the existing family farm, just outside of the city limits. The resulting country estate was completed in early 1924 and earned its own pull-out section in the Dallas Morning News, trumpeting its grandeur and the innovative mechanical systems conceived by Mr. Parks himself.

Following Joseph Parks’s death 33 years later, the family sold the house to serve as the new East Dallas YMCA, a role it fulfilled for more than 50 years.  When the YMCA moved to new quarters in 1999, the house was sold to an individual who began a long but ultimately unsuccessful renovation. By 2006, the owner was out of time and resources and the house was threatened with demolition. It was boarded over after standing windowless for years and finally donated to Preservation Dallas.  In 2007, they sold it to Tom and Kathi Lind who had committed to live in the house and to restore it  to it’s original grandeur.

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