Kessler Park Historic District

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.