Let’s ask another question. How many homes built in Dallas have received the American Institute of Architects 25 Year Award? Only 12. This is the award given by the local architectural community to recognize remarkable residential designs built over 25 years ago.
One of these homes, 7010 Airline in University Park, is our current subject. Designed by architect Glenn Allen Galloway as his residence, Airline is a home for connoisseurs of recognized and timeless residential design. Owned by the Galloway family until only 3 years ago, the home has always been, since it was built in 1966, one of Dallas’ most intriguing homes.
Giving up very little beyond its strikingly composed monolithic façade punctuated by an expanse of rectangular openings, the home presents itself from the street with only a hint of what very special qualities lie inside.
Galloway, who was both an architect and an artist, was born in Texas and worked with Philip Johnson in the late 1940s. Influenced by the International Style, Galloway brought to his local designs the freshness of vision seen originally in the work of such prominent early modernists as Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius and Johnson.
For his own home Galloway chose a site that afforded privacy as well as connection to such important cultural and shopping landmarks as Southern Methodist University and Snyder Plaza, both of which are only blocks away. The home’s lot measures 105 feet in width, which is considered unusually wide by University Park standards. In fact, the surrounding homes all face in other directions.
The home, being private from the street in the style of urban homes in European and or Latin American, opens and connects with the outdoors on its eastern, northern & southern exposure.
The L shaped living/dining area has floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the large back yard. Ceilings are 10 feet, and floors feature Carrara marble. A gas fireplace is situated against a strikingly composed wall of floor-to-ceiling stained cabinetry. Skylights bathe this room’s west art wall with filtered light. Sliding glass doors in a glass wall open to a large covered porch for outside dining and entertaining.
The master suite is entered via a study looking onto the home’s main outside living space. The study offers the original built-in desk designed by Galloway as well as lateral files for art and architectural plans. After passing through a dressing area which accesses the master bath, one enters the very private master bedroom. This serene room overlooks its own covered porch and Japanese inspired garden, complete with outside shower!
On the other side of the main living area are two more bedrooms (one with a cork floor- a room used by the architect as his studio and featuring a wall of northern light), and a connecting bath.
The current owners bought the home with the intention of restoring and remodeling it, and plans have been done to expand storage, update baths, and open up the kitchen.
If you’ve ever dreamed of living in a home with an unbeatable architectural pedigree in one of the best neighborhoods in the city, here is your opportunity.
