{"nrhp_refnum":"94000607","name":"Kessler Park Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Kidd Springs, Stewart, Oak Cliff, Plymouth, I-30, Turner, Colorado and Sylvan","address_restricted":false,"city":"Dallas","county":"Dallas County","state":"TX","lat":32.758647171000035,"lon":-96.84938963555612,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1994-06-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly 275-acre residential historic district about three miles west-southwest of downtown Dallas, Texas, in the Oak Cliff area, made up of four 1920s additions plus the Stevens Park golf course. It contains 413 contributing and 145 noncontributing resources, mostly houses dating from the 1920s to the 1940s.","why_significant":"The description presents the district as an excellent collection of 1920s-1940s bungalows and large revival-style houses with a high level of integrity. Two neighborhoods with shared stylistic influences sit side by side, one of modest cottages and one of larger architect-designed homes on hilly, curving streets. The Section 8 text is cut off, so the criteria and period of significance are not stated in the available text.","narrative":"Kessler Park is a large residential district of about 275 acres roughly three miles west-southwest of downtown Dallas, forming the northern anchor of the Oak Cliff community. It combines four additions platted in the 1920s with the Stevens Park golf course, which covers over a third of the area. Modest revival-style cottages and bungalows fill the flat southern and eastern portions, laid out on regular blocks with alleys. North of Colorado Boulevard, two hilly additions have curving streets, irregular lots and larger, often architect-designed houses of one and a half or two stories in brick, stone and stucco. Tudor Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival dominate, with Classical and Georgian Revival examples and fewer Craftsman bungalows. Of 558 resources, 413 contribute to the district's character. Its significance rests on the consistent site planning, stylistic kinship and high integrity of its 1920s to 1940s buildings, along with the landscaped park setting. Few primary buildings have been lost, apart from those removed when Tyler Avenue was widened in the 1950s.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Tudor Revival; Spanish Colonial Revival; Bungalow/Craftsman (also Classical Revival, Georgian Revival and some Prairie School influence)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Current functions are single-dwelling residential and park; the district is described as maintaining a high level of integrity with well-maintained yards and public spaces.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:23.279774-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/88/9686/40968688/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/94000607.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000607/c3c92bf84c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/94000607/c3c92bf84c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kessler_Park_1.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Renelibrary</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kessler_Park_1.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40968688","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_Park_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6395163"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/dallas-county/kessler-park-historic-district-94000607/"}