Stanley Marcus Home May Become Dallas Landmark House, Get Bigger
As reported on Unfair Park this morning, Preservation Dallas’ Landmark Commission Designation Committee is heading to the late Stanley Marcus home at 10 Nonesuch Place, the home now owned by the Lovvorn family. Not only will the Committee figure out if 10 Nonesuch should be a Landmark House, they are going to figure out how and where the owners can add on to the 9,000 square foot structure. You may recall the Lovvorns debated scraping the home last summer, but decided to save it. The purpose of tonight’s meeting is, as reported, a site visit so the Commission can see what they have — inspect which parts of the house are historic and cannot be touched, which parts are, well, not significant so that the Lovvorns can go to town remodelling those areas. PD’s Katherine Seale did tell me the Lovvorns are planning an extensive addition, and what she has seen thus far looks great. The whole point, which she thinks the homeowners realized last summer, is there is flexibility in owning an historic home. It’s not like you have to call the “Preservation Nazi’s” every time you want to paint a wall.
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I just don’t get it. How can 9,000 square feet not be big enough—especially if the kids are all grown and out on their own?
Because they want to be gloriously happy like Candy Spelling.
Too much always translates into “tacky.”
The Lovvorns should be commended for saving this home from total destruction. Anyone who would be critical of their current apparently sensitive expansion intentions do not fully understand the backstory to this complicated historical property. We need more homeowners like the Lovvorns.
Wyman, is there a back story for needing additional square footage—above and beyond the existing 9,000 sf? I would think the back story would belong to the age of the building fabric and its need for restoration—not the need for additional square footage. The way I see it, they were shamed into their current predicament. But I’m glad there will be a happy compromise.
I thought that they had already chosen W2 Studio to do the work???