Reverchon Park Flyover
by Paula Bosse
Reverchon Park — photo by Squire Haskins (click for VERY large image)
by Paula Bosse
Another of photographer Squire Haskins’ fantastic aerial shots, this one taken over Reverchon Park, looking northeasterly: the Katy tracks are running up and down on the right side, what is present-day Harry Hines is at the bottom, squiggly Turtle Creek Blvd. runs up the middle from the park, Fairmount and Maple run across the photo near the top, and Hood St. runs along the very far left edge. What looks like a date of “6-13-56” is on the back of the photo.
A present-day map of the area, looking north (to zoom out or in, click here):
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A couple of questions. What are the two large buildings in the crops below?
The first one is the large white building on property bounded by Fairmount, Enid, Turtle Creek and a street that no longer seems to exist (an extension of Brown?):
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The second is on Maple, near Hood — across from the amphitheater in the park, where the Heritage Auctions building is now:
The top one appears to be a (large!) home (I’d love to know who owned it), but I’m not sure what the one at the bottom is. Anyone know? (UPDATE: Thanks to my mother for informing me that the building immediately above is the Bradford Memorial Hospital for Babies, which you can see and read about here.)
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Photo by Squire Haskins, via the Portal to Texas History, here. (Back of photo is here.)
Map from Bing.
Most images larger when clicked.
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Copyright © 2015 Paula Bosse. All Rights Reserved.
so the one with two buildings in it not sure but comparing a 1958 and a 1968 aerial shows that the two buildings were demolished within that timeframe
http://historicaerials.com/
the very large building looks like a hotel or apartment building in the second photo.
city directories should tell what they were. might have to check Dallas Rediscovered
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Thanks for that link! I haven’t looked at that site in ages!
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[…] The photo was taken August 15, 1950, by an unknown photographer. It looks a lot like a photo by Squire Haskins, taken a couple of blocks south — see it in the previous Flashback Dallas post “Reverchon Park Flyover,” here. […]
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I believe that the large white building in the top mystery photo is 2505 Turtle Creek and the smaller building above it is 2625 Turtle Creek. Originally the homes of John Early Lee and his son Hamilton Lee, I think they were occupied by Walter Ahlschlager and the widow of Hamilton Lee at the time of the photo. I am not sure what happened to to the buildings after the photo but Mrs. Lee died in August 1956 and by 1962 the 2505 Turtle Creek address was the Mutual of New York office. References: http://goo.gl/xjUsdK http://goo.gl/2RpKWW http://goo.gl/4co6oD http://goo.gl/6VK0vs http://goo.gl/rtpCCD http://goo.gl/X1WDXF https://goo.gl/nNhVVO http://goo.gl/I4clRR
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Well THAT’S some impressive legwork!
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[…] of that post-sanitarium dispensing site. A 1956-ish aerial photo of Reverchon Park can be found here. I don’t see a “semicircle of masonry” in an area I assume would be located near […]
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