South Boulevard-Park Row Historic District

Along four blocks each of South Boulevard and Park Row in near southeast Dallas sits a neighborhood of 116 houses built as stylish homes for the city's new business leaders in the early twentieth century. Larger, architect-designed two-story houses line South Boulevard, while smaller bungalows are concentrated on Park Row. Styles include Prairie, Mission Revival, late Georgian Revival and neo-classical, with several eclectic designs. Prominent regional architects worked here, including H.A. Overbeck and Howard Myers, who designed the 1938 Tiferet Israel Synagogue. The neighborhood grew rapidly after Temple Emanuel moved to South Boulevard in 1913, and by the 1920s it was the center of Dallas's Jewish social and religious life. Herbert Marcus, co-founder of Neiman Marcus, lived at 2620 South Boulevard. After the synagogues relocated in the early 1950s, many well-to-do Black families, including educators, lawyers and clergy, bought homes here. The district is listed for its architecture and its role in the city's development.