King's Highway Historic District

King's Highway is a six-block residential street in the Oak Cliff area of Dallas that runs diagonally across the surrounding street grid. The district covers about 30 acres and includes 100 properties, 65 of them contributing. Most are brick or wood-frame bungalows, four-square houses and small four-to-eight-unit apartment buildings dating from about 1920 through the 1930s, with Craftsman, Prairie School and period revival details. The street was part of the Oak Cliff Annex, platted in 1909 and slow to develop until the 1920s. Buildings here were larger than elsewhere in the Annex, and the lower southeast end held many apartments and duplexes while the northwest end had mostly single-family houses. Consistent setbacks, compatible materials and the unusual diagonal layout give the street a cohesive character. It was listed for its architecture, with a period of significance from about 1920 to 1944. Some alterations have occurred, but rehabilitation is returning many houses to single-family use.