D Sale of the Week: Lake Highlands, Secluded Living, Higher, Drier Land?
Property like this just doesn’t come on the market but once in a lifetime: 1.49 acres — that is not a misprint — in the middle of Lake Highlands off Church Road for $650,000. (Acres in Preston Hollow? You are talking $1.5 minimum, most soaked right about now.) Peaceful wooded acreage with a creek seconds from Lake Highlands High School and White Rock Trail, civilization completely blocked out by trees.
“The property is zoned commercial,” says agent Nancy Harmon of ReMax, “live here, then go commercial — open up a bed and breakfast. ”
Or simply enjoy the 3350 square foot home, built in 1943 and remodeled where it counts in the baths, kitchen; four bedrooms, four baths plus grounds-sweeping patios and decks. Ebby agent Robin Moss Norcross, who knows Lake Highlands better than her own mother, says 9243 Church Road was one of the first homes in the neighborhood.
“The Vernon family lived there,” says Robin, “and they raised a house full of boys, all of whom went on to become quite successful.”
The land was originally owned by Mrs. Vernon’s family, and forever there was nothing else in the vicinity except for raw land and and trees. Now, you must drive through a town-home development to access the home.
“They are completely blocked once you are inside this oasis,” says Harmon.
One of the Vernon boys raised in this house: John Vernon, a prominent Dallas attorney who grew up to marry modeling guru Kim Dawson’s daughter, Kim, now a physician at Medical City Hospital of Dallas.
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nice find.
and it is isolated. if by isolated you mean next to the dart rail row.