3635 Beverly Drive, The Residence of Architect Anton F. Korn — 1926
by Paula Bosse
Anton Korn’s Highland Park home, 1926
by Paula Bosse
The image above appeared in a 1926 ad in The House Beautiful. The ad was for metal casement windows with leaded glass, manufactured by International Casement Co. Such a beautiful house! The only clue as to where this house might have been located is in information in the inset which reads, “Res. Dallas, Texas — Anton F. Korn, Architect.” Korn was a well-known architect in Dallas, and I had seen several mentions of him on Douglas Newby’s Architecturally Significant Homes site — I went there, looked up Anton Korn (1886-1942), and found this page, which shows several of the houses he designed. I scrolled down until I found one that looked like the house in the photo. I think it is the home Korn designed at 3635 Beverly Drive in Highland Park (southwest corner of Beverly and Drexel). The image on Google Maps (here) has trees obscuring the chimney, but it looks like the same house. According to Newby, the house was designed in 1924. And according to the city directory, Korn apparently designed the house for himself, and he lived there for several years. Newby notes that the oak timbers were re-planed from the grand Oriental Hotel (southeast corner of Commerce and Akard).
Here’s the ad that photo came from:
I love this house! Let’s hope it continues to stand another (almost) 100 years!
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Sources & Notes
Ad currently for sale on eBay.
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Flashback : Dallas 
When I did my 4 years at SMU, I often would see his house and I loved it!!
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I sure hope this house doesn’t get demolished by the current flux of unimaginative people moving into Highland Park. It’s devastating the number of grand & historic homes being torn down and replaced by complete drek in HP
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I couldn’t agree more, Jane!
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Yes, it’s sad to see quality houses being ripped down to be replaced by “look at me, how rich I am” all white and black boxes crammed right up to the property lines.
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1924 is the same year that Anton Korn designed the original Gaston Avenue shopping strip in Lakewood…there are a lot of similarities in the style of the house and the shops–very European, chateau-like!
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I don’t think I knew he designed that!!
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If the architect is who I think he was, his son was Andreas Korn, married to Nancy Skillern of Skillern’s Drug Stores. Their children were Rae and Betsy. All are gone now. Rae was my pal when the Korns lived on Beverly “on the other side of the tracks” on the 4600 block, same as my house, before their beautiful house was built on Beverly at the Southeast corner of the Dallas Country Club. When the Korns lived on the 4600 block of Beverly their house was well designed. Their house at the Southeast corner of the DCC
was very modern compared to what was generally being built in H.P. Could this be a like father like son deal?
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Maybe that would explain the old Skillern’s with its little pointy turret in Lakewood Shopping Center? Is that building still there?
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And yes, the little pointy turret is still there, at the southwest corner of Old Abrams and Gaston. Hurray!
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Christopher – you are correct – beautiful home and Rae/Betsy are both gone as are Andreas and Nancy. Andreas passed away while living in Taos in 2007. I married Rae’s first wife Donna
after they divorced in the early 70’s.
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Hi Paula,
This is the house I grew up in, and my family still owns the house. Everything you wrote is correct Mr. Korn built it for himself and his family. It has lots of interesting details aside from the columns that he salvaged from the Oriental hotel. There’s a balcony in the three-story living room he designed for his wife who is an opera singer. When they would entertain she would stand on the balcony and sing to their guests. It’s been a wonderful home and I agree with your other Reader, I hope it’s never torn down. Thanks for the post. Really fun to see.
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Julie! Thanks so much for commenting! A 3-story living room? That’s fantastic. It’s such a beautiful house!
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wow! salvaged columns from the Oriental. would love to see what they look like
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Julie: Never, never sell! Keep it in the family!
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My great aunt and uncle were Anton and Marie Korn. Anton designed this Beverly house for his own home and he and Marie raised three children there, Tony, Andreas (“Tinky”) and Marie (“Mitzie”). Anton also designed a very similar English Tudor at 3900 Potomac for my grandparents, Freda (Marie’s sister) and Robert Giles. Sadly, it was torn down last year. Aunt Marie sang with the Dallas Symphony and also sang to entertain guests in this home, as Julia Lloyd mentions above! It is a beautiful home and should be saved.
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Sorry, I meant to add my name to the above post–Jim Baldwin.
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Sorry, I meant to add my name to the above post–Jim Baldwin. Thanks.
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Sorry, I meant to add my name to the above post–Jim Baldwin. Thanks.
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