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    Candy's Dirt

    Inside the Philip Johnson-designed stunner just listed in Dallas for $27.5 million

    Candy Evans
    Sep 24, 2014 | 11:35 am

    Get ready, Strait Lane, and look your best. On Wednesday afternoon, a select group of top Dallas real estate agents will glide through the renovated Philip Johnson home at 10210 Strait Ln. It has just hit the market for $27.5 million, and David Nichols of Allie Beth Allman’s Mathews-Nichols Group has the listing.

    You know this house: It’s the distinctive white contemporary with arches on the east side of Strait Lane, closer to Walnut Hill Lane. The New York Times called the home “almost campy” and said it was the “the most strangely fascinating thing” Johnson ever created.

    Alan Peppard, who broke the story of the sale Sunday, says the home has hosted President Barack Obama not once, but twice. That’s probably because the owners, Naomi Aberly and Larry Lebowitz, have been huge fundraisers for the Obama campaign. But they also are major arts patrons and, as such, saved the home from the ravages of time, age and nature.

    A little history: In 1963, Dallas construction titan Henry C. Beck Jr. and then-wife, Patty (daughter of Wirt Davis), commissioned Johnson to build what would be the only Philip Johnson-designed structure in Dallas. The Cleveland-born Johnson is known for his postmodern work since the 1980s and also for founding the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

    Johnson is largely considered one of the most influential American architects. The home at 10210 Strait Ln., which sits on 6.45 acres, is 12,000 square feet, a Texas-sized luxury version of the lake pavilion Johnson designed for his well-known New Canaan, Connecticut masterpiece, the Glass House.

    In 2002, Patty sold the house following her divorce from Beck, and Dave Perry-Miller handled the transaction. The house was perhaps a bit tired. The buyers spent six years painstakingly restoring and modernizing it.

    This included a total redo of the 6.45 acres by Massachusetts firm Reed Hilderbrand. Dallas’ Bodron+Fruit did the interiors and designed the pavilion for the new swimming pool. Local designer Joshua Rice even tells me he lived at the home for a period of time during the renovation.

    The home has five bedrooms, eight full and three half-baths, formals, study, pool, and guest house pavilion. Curbed questions if the nearly $30 million price tag is a tad ambitious despite the six-year renovation:

    The renovation architects ‘fell prey to its outsize charms and managed to make what could have been monumental and chilly into something that is as comfortable as it is glamorous,’ according to the Times, which seems to ring pretty true, and is certainly better than the recent fate of another Johnson-designed oddity. Will a buyer fall as well, for almost $30M?

    Looks like the Dallas County Appraisal District needs to do its homework: 10210 Strait Ln. is on the DCAD books for $10,752,400. Whoa, that’s quite a difference from $27.5 mil, no?

    The home sits on 6.45 acres.

    Exterior of 10210 Strait Ln. in Dallas
      
    Photo courtesy of Mathews Nichols Group
    The home sits on 6.45 acres.
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    Dallas-Fort Worth suburb blooms as No. 1 best place to live in U.S.

    Amber Heckler
    Apr 22, 2025 | 4:12 pm
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    One Dallas-area city took the top slot on a new list of "the 100 Best Places to Live in 2025." The list — from relocation marketing platform Livability.com — put Flower Mound at No. 1 for its appealing size and affordability.

    The list was restricted to small and mid-size cities with populations between 75,000-500,000 residents. And it also considered only cities with a median home value of $500,000 or less.

    They considered factors such as average rent and home prices relative to income to keep their list centered around affordability.

    And while Flower Mound did come in at No. 1, the site specifies that the list is not a numbered ranking but one where users are encouraged to create their own ranking based on personal priorities.

    Nonetheless, Flower Mound earned the highest score out of all the cities on the report, with a LivScore totaling 875 out of 1,000 possible points.

    Flower Mound is 28 miles northwest of Dallas, with a population of more than 77,000 residents and a median household income that's well into the six-figures, at $216,000. These affluent residents have median home values of $476,609, according to the report's findings.

    Across the eight main categories, the suburb ranked the highest for its health (88), economy (87), and safety (84). The report said Flower Mound has a "diverse and robust" economy, bolstered by more than 2,000 locally based businesses in tech, manufacturing, and other professional services.

    Flower MoundRheudasil Park is a great place for families to enjoy the outdoors.Town of Flower Mound, Texas-Government/Facebook

    Livability's profile of Flower Mound praises its safe neighborhoods, school districts, recreational activities, and more.

    "Local residents (and their pets) have all kinds of fun ways to enjoy the great outdoors thanks to more than 1,000 acres of parkland," the profile says. "Heritage Park is a local favorite, with amenities galore — including a splash pad, playground, performance pavilion, 18-hole disc golf course and bronze statues of animals native to the area. On top of all that, there’s a boardwalk, a waterfall and a 5-acre dog park."

    Flo-Mo is a repeat award winner: In 2024, the city was found to be the 29th most livable small city in America in a separate study by SmartAsset.

    Seven other Texas cities were also included in the list of best places to live in the U.S.: Sugar Land (854 points), Round Rock (793 points), New Braunfels (758 points), Midland (712 points), College Station (711 points), Tyler (676 points), and Abilene (659 points).

    The top 10 cities that earned the most points on Livability's list are:

    • Flower Mound, Texas
    • Carmel, Indiana
    • Sugar Land, Texas
    • Naperville, Illinois
    • Roswell, Georgia
    • Overland Park, Kansas
    • Troy, Michigan
    • Columbia, Maryland
    • Olathe, Kansas
    • Round Rock, Texas
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