Tenth Street Historic District

Tenth Street Historic District occupies a hilly, roughly triangular area at the southeastern edge of Oak Cliff in Dallas, high on the west bank of the Trinity River. Most of its 261 properties, 210 of them contributing, are small wood-frame houses built between 1890 and the early 1940s, including shotgun, L-plan, pyramidal-roof and bungalow types. Landmarks include the Gothic Revival Elizabeth Chapel, the Classical Revival Greater Bethel Baptist Church, Harllee School, a two-story commercial building at 102 Cliff, and the Oak Cliff Cemetery, which covers about one-sixth of the district. The area was platted in 1890 by T.L. Marsalis and the Dallas Land & Loan Company. It is recognized as Oak Cliff's most important African American neighborhood, with residents such as carpenter and contractor Noah Penn, for whom Noah Street is named. Few comparable Black neighborhoods survive in Dallas, and demolition has been a greater threat to this one than alteration.