Alcalde Street-Crockett School Historic District

Alcalde Street and David Crockett School form a small historic district in East Dallas, about 1.5 miles northeast of downtown. It includes 25 buildings, 16 of them contributing, mostly modest frame houses built between about 1903 and 1920 in modified L-plan and bungalow forms. Many show late Victorian massing with simple classical details such as slender Doric porch columns. The two-and-a-half-story brick Crockett School, begun in 1903, is the dominant landmark and the oldest surviving public school facility in Dallas. The street grew after streetcar lines met at Elm and Peak streets, and the Queen City Addition may have been meant partly for streetcar employees. Unlike most East Dallas streets, Alcalde was not built up during the earlier railroad-era boom and was not redeveloped afterward, so it keeps a consistent early 20th-century character. Its architecture and its role as an intact streetcar suburb are the reasons for its listing.