Munger Place Historic District

Munger Place is a residential district in Dallas, Texas, laid out in 1905 by R.S. Munger as an elite neighborhood. The nominated portion covers five streets, Junius, Worth, Tremont, Victor and Reiger, across 85 acres and 278 lots. Of these, 207 hold vintage houses, and about 60 percent of the buildings have seen little or no facade alteration. The developers aimed for uniformity: similar lot sizes were grouped together, alleys carried utilities and stables, and trees such as sycamore, pecan and elm lined the streets. Deed restrictions set how far houses sat from the street, required two full stories, barred houses from facing side streets, and set minimum construction costs. The prevailing architecture is Prairie Style, seen in about ninety dwellings, often mixed with Bungaloid features. Tudor Revival, Neo-Classical and Spanish Colonial Revival houses also appear. The district was listed for its planning, its intact landscape concepts and its collection of early twentieth-century houses.