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Crespi Hicks

Crespi Hicks

Sophistication and Refinement Define Estate Home

You will find articles on the Crespi Hicks estate, articles and photographs on the original Crespi Estate and over 300 photographs illustrating the Crespi-Hicks home.

Who Purchased Crespi Hicks Estate?

After the years’ expectation that Andy Beal would purchase the Crespi Estate, Andy Beal successfully negotiated the purchase of this Preston Hollow estate home.

Andy Beal Purchases Crespi Estate

Private Air on Cover Reveals Crespi Hicks As Finest Estate home in America

Private Air Luxury Homes is provided to private jet travelers, an audience shared with Douglas Newby.

Crespi Hicks Featured on Cover of Private Air

Crespi Hicks Designed by Maurice Fatio

Architect Maurice Fatio designed the Crespi Estate was considered the nation’s best estate architect in the 1920’s and the 1930’s. Maurice Fatio was best known for his work in New York and Palm Beach and the Crespi home, the last great estate home he designed.

Architect Maurice Fatio

Crespi Hicks is Found in Preston Hollow Neighborhood

The estate neighborhood of Preston Hollow is the perfect location for the estate – Crespi Hicks. The Crepi Hicks renovation architect was Peter Marino. For the Crespi Hicks estate, Peter Marino furthered the proportions and refinement of architect Maurice Fatio.

Preston Hollow Neighborhood

The Largest Estate Properties are Found in Mayflower Estates

Crespi Hicks Estate benefits from the  seclusion and topography of Mayflower Estates.

Mayflower Estates Neighborhood

Crespi Hicks Defines Architecturally Significant

The Crespi Hicks Estate is the lens through which to look at other Architecturally Significant Homes.

Architecturally Significant Homes

History of Crespi Estate

The origin of the Crespi Hicks estate home begins with the Crespi Estate.

History of Crespi Estate – Pio Crespi and Florence Crespi and Architect Maurice Fatio

Crespi Hicks For Sale

Crespi Hicks offered for sale is found on Featured Listings of Significant Homes.

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Crespi-Hicks Has Modern Floor Plan

The Crespi Hicks Estate is divided into three structures, allowing each room to be filled with sunlight.

An Estate Home Even Modern Architects Love

Crespi Hicks in President Bush Neighborhood

Crespi Hicks is found in the neighborhood of President and Mrs. George W. Bush.

New Home for President Bush Will Double Land Value
Mayflower Estates is Neighborhood for President Bush

Crespi Hicks is Announced For Sale in the Huffington Post

The Huffington Post was the first to announce that the Crespi Hicks Estate was being offered for sale.

Huffington Post Article on “A Cultural Icon Comes on the Market”

Huffington Post Identifies Crespi Hicks as Finest Estate Home in America

An article in the HuffingtonPost.com describes the criteria for the finest estate homes.

Huffington Post Article on “The Finest Estate Home in America Found”

Crespi Hicks Video

This video on the Crespi Hicks explains the relationship of the architect and architecture with the land.

Crespi Hicks Estate Video

Original Crespi Estate

The origin of Crespi Hicks was the Crespi Estate designed by Maurice Fatio

See Original Crespi Estate

Crespi Hicks Has Most Value of Any Property Offered For Sale

Many consider Crespi-Hicks to have the most potential appreciation because of its architectural pedigree and the Crespi Hicks’, 25 acre estate property.

See Crespi / Hicks Estate Home For Sale

Crespi Hicks Finest Estate Home in America

See over 300 photographs of Crespi Hicks.

See Renovated Crespi / Hicks Estate Home

For further information contact me, Douglas Newby, real estate broker and listing agent for Crespi Hicks Estate.

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Douglas Newby knows the inventory of architecturally significant homes and the nuances of neighborhoods better than any real estate agent in Dallas. Understanding inventory is more than relying on MLS or “hip pockets.” It is approaching the market as if every home in Dallas is for sale. When a buyer looks for a home from that perspective, they are not constrained by a random slice of what is presently on the market or hoping something better will magically come on the market. A traditional approach leaves economics and aesthetics to chance. For decades Douglas Newby has identified architecturally significant homes and helped clients select neighborhoods in good locations that make them happy. The majority of Douglas Newby transactions are not through MLS. Values are determined by more important criteria than what has sold in the last six months. Homes are more important now than they have ever been.

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A home an architect designed for himself and his f A home an architect designed for himself and his family is always one of my favorites. This architecturally significant and historically significant home at 4511 Highland Drive in Old Highland Park is even more special because it was designed by the iconic Highland Park and Dallas architect, Herbert M. Greene, who also designed the Cox/Beal Beaux Arts style estate home on Beverly and Preston. Adding to the legacy of this home overlooking Hackberry Creek and backing up to Lakeside Drive estate properties, is a home that was passed down successfully to family members over three generations. Until only recently when he died at 97, John Greene Taylor owned and lived in the home. I first met John Greene Taylor 20 years ago when he gave me a call and asked if I would like to see his home that his grandfather designed. I was thrilled to see this 1920s home with very high ceilings and graciously proportioned formal and informal rooms. The architectural detail and woodwork were still intact. Apparently, the beneficiary of the estate had no real interest in preserving the home, which does not bode well for its future. I don’t know if Preservation Park Cities has this historic home on their list of 100 Architecturally Significant Historic Homes? I do know that the high-profile real estate firms thought the home only had land value as a lot. Here is a perfect example of how an early proactive preservation effort might have made a difference. I will remember John Taylor Greene with admiration and appreciation for saving this architecturally significant historic home for as long as he did – his entire life. *Architectural Legacy Ends
 
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I have always been a huge advocate of the City Man I have always been a huge advocate of the City Manager form of government until now -- I realized it exacerbates and feeds off of a ward system that needs reform. You can see my latest blog article, "City Manager Ward System Form of Government Needs Reform" on DouglasNewby.com. The current City Manager Ward System takes away the voters' control, hinders the progress of Dallas priorities, and the Mayor's initiatives. My conversion on this topic over the last two months has come from the Dallas Mayor's good initiatives being thwarted, and the City Manager's public and private disrespect for the Mayor and now many on the City Council. I wrote "City Manager Ward System Form of Government Needs Reform" before the Dallas Morning News broke the story that the City Manager's future will be reviewed by the City Council when they meet on Wednesday. The reason this called meeting has been so long coming is because a majority of the City Council cannot fire the City Manager. The City Manager only needs to keep six City Council members happy to keep his job. It will be interesting if the Mayor and the four City Council members that are on record for wanting to fire the City Manager will have a super-majority of the City Council to do so. I have tried in my blog article to give a fresh perspective of the history of the City Manager form of government and single member districts, and what has been brewing at City Hall between the Mayor and City Manager. The current City Manager ward system form of government needs reform if Dallas is going to continue to flourish. *City Manager Ward System

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What is one going to do when one becomes fond of t What is one going to do when one becomes fond of the orchid that comes floating in a pre-dinner cocktail, the Serrano, ordered in the gallery from Bemelmans Bar at The Carlyle overseen by Manager Dimitrios Michalopoulos? When the drink is finished, rinse the orchid off in chilled water and place it in one’s lapel buttonhole for the evening’s dinner at Antonucci’s. Seated outside close by was a prominent hedge fund partner that I casually know from TED. I went by to say hello to him and his grown family dining with him. After a brief fun exchange, he complimented me on my orchid. This allowed me to explain the origin story of the orchid to him and his family’s amusement, which inspired this post. I did not mention that I now have an inclination where John Reoch sources his buttonhole flowers he wears when he knows paparazzi will be close by. *Cocktail Orchid
 
@RosewoodTheCarlyle #TheCarlyle #CarlyleGallery #BemelmansBar @BemelmansBar #Cocktail #Orchid #NYC #Manhattan #UpperEastSide #Design #ButtonholeFlower #CocktailOrchid #sartorialgardener
Urban planners and architects often create digitiz Urban planners and architects often create digitized renderings to show how a plaza becomes a human space – a reflection pool, a piece of sculpture, spotted trees, and three people placed in the hardscape between buildings. And when I see these renderings, I say to myself, “Yeah, like that is ever going to happen.” And yet in real life at the MoMA, when I turned and looked at what seemed to be a large computer rendering, it was really a MoMA sculpture garden with a pool, a sculpture, spotted trees, and three sunbathers with their feet dangling towards the pool, with chairs strewn about inviting more to join them. Before long, as I often do when I am visiting the MoMA, I found my way to a chair under a tree with dappled light to relax and enjoy the day. The musing I have written across the photograph maybe should have been – “When life mimics renderings.” *Three Bathers
 
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An exhibition in a museum with an enjoyable scale, An exhibition in a museum with an enjoyable scale, mask optional, beautiful paintings, presented in a way one learns more about the artist, the artistic period, and the history of its time is my favorite way to view art. The MoMA exhibition, “Matisse: The Red Studio,” captures all these positive components. Sometimes looking at a series of paintings in a museum can make one a bit weary. This “Matisse: The Red Studio” exhibit exhilarates and energizes the viewer. It also propels one to see the other floors of the permanent collection with a fresh eye and a deeper insight on how to look at and think about art. “The Red Studio” becomes a studio index for the other paintings on the walls surrounding the 6 foot x 7 foot Red Studio panel.  MoMA was successful in assembling and displaying all the paintings pictured in “The Red Studio.” This commissioned painting of a studio was originally painted in the natural colors of the studio’s blue and green walls and wood floors. Matisse then did a reset of not just this painting but of his art. He rapidly repainted all the walls, ceilings and floor in red. His patron who commissioned the piece, upon seeing it, rejected it as did the art critics when the piece was exhibited in Paris, the Armory in New York, and at the Art Institute of Chicago. Matisse, who was a favorite fauve painter at the time, was ridiculed for this piece that went unsold for years. Hidden from view for years and only some 20 years later, found a buyer who placed it in his fashionable nightclub. Matisse did not include any of his earlier fauve paintings in “The Red Studio” but instead included his more recent calmer and more decorative paintings that he hung on his studio wall, some shown as you scroll through. Creativity is ideas that come in many forms. Sometimes it takes months, sometimes years, and sometimes generations for an expression of creativity to resonate with the public at large. “The Red Studio” resonates with us now. Congratulations to MoMA for another great show. *Studio Index
 
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Doors will open and the new owners, a delightful y Doors will open and the new owners, a delightful young couple, will be embraced by a warm, sun-filled home, designed by architect Max Levy, that will provide them generational happiness. The front five-foot wide frosted pivot door opens to an entertainment gallery that links the glass-walled wings of the home—the open kitchen, dining and living areas, and the two-story wing of bedrooms. From almost every room there is a visual connection to every other room, the garden, and at least one of the five mature live oak trees framed by a window. Across the gallery from the front door, is a wide, sliding glass door, framed in white oak, that opens to a room surrounded by windows on three sides that protrudes into the garden.  Above the center room is a screened room only accessible to the garden, making these two stacked rooms the center of this residence and the center of the property, so one can fully enjoy nature and the trees that inspired the design of this modern home in Greenway Parks. No wonder many consider this the finest home sited on less than .5 acres in Dallas. *Doors Open
 
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