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Preston Hollow is located 6 miles (9.7 km) north of Downtown Dallas.Preston Road is the main arterial road in the area. Terry Box of The Dallas Morning News said in 1987 that the corridor Preston Road travels through, between the Northwest Highway and the LBJ Freeway, is referred to as the "golden corridor" of Dallas due to its wealth.
Harris-Savage Home (RTHL #17586, [20] 2013), 5703 Swiss Ave.—Constructed in 1917 for P.A. Ritter, later occupants of the home included William A. Turner, a Texas oil field pioneer, and W.R. Harris, who was a prosecutor during the impeachment of Texas Governor James Ferguson by the Texas Legislature, and Wallace Savage, a former mayor of Dallas.
Runnymede Bridge is a multi-span arch bridge at the uppermost end of the Staines upon Thames and Egham Reach of the River Thames: above Penton Hook Lock and below Bell Weir Lock. It opened in 1961 to carry the A30's Staines Bypass. [2] [3] Designs for the bridge were completed by 1939 by Sir Edwin Lutyens in concert with consulting engineer H ...
The company, first known as Trinity Steel, was founded by C. J. Bender in Dallas in 1933. W. Ray Wallace, an engineering graduate of Louisiana Tech, worked for Dallas's Austin Bridge Company in 1944 before joining the company in 1946 as its seventeenth employee. At the time Trinity Steel manufactured butane tanks in a Dallas County mule barn.
Harry Hines Blvd where Dallas North Tollway starts. Harry Hines Boulevard is a major street in Dallas, Texas, (), to the west of Uptown.. It was one of the first 'highways' in Texas, and is named for Harry Hines in honor of his work helping to get roads paved in this part of the state.
1972: Completion of Texas Stadium, former home of the Dallas Cowboys. [8] 1987: Centex purchases the backlog and other assets of Rogers Construction Company in Nashville, Tennessee; the newly formed company is named Centex-Rodgers Construction. [9] 1989: Completion of the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas. [10]
The bridge, which opened in March 2012, is the first of a series of bridges that the office of Santiago Calatrava designed to span the Trinity River in downtown Dallas. [7] The bridge connects Spur 366 (Woodall Rodgers Freeway) in downtown to Singleton Boulevard in West Dallas. [8] Construction on the bridge began in December 2005. [9]
The Trinity River Project is a public works project undertaken in the 2000s in the city of Dallas, Texas, United States. [1] Its goal is to redevelop the Trinity River.The project aims to turn the river's path into a collection of sports fields, trails, nature centers, and recreational opportunities.