![]() ![]() Twenty percent of the original land was set aside for parks. Kessler, who designed Fair Park and much of downtown Dallas, was hired to help in planning and development. The investors hired Wilbur David Cook, a landscape architect of Beverly Hills, California, to design the layout. Armstrong, along with his sons-in-law Hugh Prather and Edgar Flippen, gave Highland Park its name because of its location on high land overlooking downtown Dallas. ![]() With the sale of his business he invested the money in 1,326 acres of the former Philadelphia Place land to develop under the name Highland Park. Marsalis in the development of Oak Cliff but sold out to open a meatpacking business. Exall bred horses with his stallion Electrite until 1906, when John Armstrong bought the land for a residential development.Īrmstrong had been a partner of Thomas L. Bass and perch abounded in it, and a steamboat operated on it. During the 1890s Exall Lake was a favorite picnic destination for Dallasites. He subsequently began a breeding farm, Lomo Alto Horse Farm. Exall lost everything except his horse and some of the land. He laid out gravel roads and built a dam across Turtle Creek to form Exall Lake before the panic of 1893 destroyed the Dallas land boom and ended the development. Henry Exall, acting as agent, intended to develop the land along Turtle Creek as Philadelphia Place, an area of exclusive housing modeled after parkland housing in Philadelphia. In 1889 the land was bought by a group of Philadelphia investors, the Philadelphia Place Land Association, for an average price of $377 an acre, or $500,000 total. Highland Park, on State Highway 289 and State Highway 75 four miles north of downtown Dallas in central Dallas County, is a 2.2-square-mile residential "island city" surrounded by Dallas on the south, east, and west and University Park on the north. ![]()
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