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Oak Lawn, Dallas

August 25, 2023

Oak Lawn is a neighborhood in Dallas, Texas (United States), defined in Dallas City Ordinance 21859 as Planned Development District No. 193, the Oak Lawn Special Purpose District. The unofficial boundaries are Turtle Creek Boulevard, Central Expressway, the City of Highland Park, Inwood Road, and Harry Hines Boulevard. It is over 12 square miles (31 km2) in area.[2][citation needed] Officially it is bounded by the City of Highland Park, the North Central Expressway, Stemmons Freeway, Woodall Rodgers Freeway, and other roads. The district is within the boundary defined by the City of Dallas law, excluding any existing planned development districts within.[3]

Oak Lawn
Nickname: 
Gayborhood
Location in Dallas
  Official
  Unofficial
CountryUnited States
StateTexas
CountiesDallas
CityDallas
Area
 • Total12 sq mi (31 km2)
Elevation
479 ft (146 m)
Population
 (2014)
 • Total50,805 [1]
 Population total includes combined population of Oak Lawn and Uptown
ZIP codes
75201, 75204, 75205, 75219, 75235 (small area)
Area code(s)214, 469, 972, 945
Websitehttp://www.oaklawncommittee.org/

About Edit

Oak Lawn is one of the wealthier areas of metropolitan Dallas, with the population consisting mainly of urban professionals. The area is peppered with upscale townhouses, condos, apartments, and duplexes. Along the Uptown portion on McKinney Avenue and along Turtle Creek Boulevard, there are many new high-rise condominiums and apartments. It is also a very diverse neighborhood with well established areas of older, single family homes.

For most of the 20th century the southern portion of the neighborhood near the intersection of Cedar Springs Road and Harry Hines Blvd was known as "Little Mexico". St. Anne's Catholic school served as the center for the community. With the redevelopment of the neighborhood beginning in the 1980s Little Mexico vanished. Only a few structures of this original community remain for most have been replaced by high rise office buildings, luxury hotels, and condominiums. As of 2010, St Ann's Catholic School, which had closed, is now an upscale restaurant.

Oak Lawn became a magnet for the counterculture movement in the late 1960s due to its inexpensive apartments and its proximity to Turtle Creek Park (formerly known as Lee Park and Oak Lawn Park).

Geography Edit

Neighborhoods Edit

Government and infrastructure Edit

The United States Postal Service operates the Oak Lawn Post Office at 2825 Oak Lawn Avenue; ZIP Code: 75219.[4]

The Federal Bureau of Prisons South Central Region Office was previously in Oak Lawn.[5] It has since moved to the U.S. Armed Forces Reserve Complex in Grand Prairie, Texas.[6]

Diplomatic missions Edit

The Consulate-General of the United Kingdom in Dallas was located in Suite 940 at 2911 Turtle Creek Boulevard.[7][8]

In April 2005 the British government announced that it was closing the Dallas consulate in the summer of 2005; its territory was transferred to the consulate-general in Houston. It was one of 19 British diplomatic missions shut down around that time period.[9] The Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the United Kingdom said that the consulates and embassies closed as a way to decrease costs.[9][10]

The Consulate-General of Mexico in Dallas is also located in Oak Lawn. Alfredo Corchado of The Dallas Morning News said that as of 2009, in terms of activity and size of the area Mexican population, the Dallas consulate is considered to be the third most important Mexican consulate after Los Angeles and Chicago.[11]

The consulate moved from 8855 North Stemmons Freeway to 1210 River Bend Drive in January 2009.[12]

Education Edit

Public schools Edit

 
North Dallas High School

The public schools in Oak Lawn are part of the Dallas Independent School District and are zoned[permanent dead link] among the following:

  • Ben Milam Elementary School
  • Esperanza "Hope" Medrano Elementary School
  • Maple Lawn Elementary School
  • North Dallas High School
  • Sam Houston Elementary School
  • T. J. Rusk Middle School

The William B. Travis Academy/Vanguard for the Academically Talented and Gifted is located near McKinney Avenue and Oak Grove Avenue.

In 2014-2015 its student body was 95% low income; despite that it exceeded its "performance targets". Due to gentrification, Sam Houston's enrollment declined to 201 students in the 2015-2016 school year while it had 302 students in the 2011-2012 school year.[13]

Irma Lerma Rangel Young Women's Leadership School was previously in Oak Lawn.[14]

Private schools Edit

  • Holy Trinity Catholic School, age 3 through 8th grade.
  • Dallas Christian Academy, prekindergarten through 12th grade.

The Walt Whitman Community School (WWCS), an LGBT-oriented private school, was established in 1997 in Oak Lawn.[15] It closed in 2004.

Public Libraries Edit

The Oak Lawn Branch of the Dallas Public Library serves the Oak Lawn area. In addition to its regular library holdings, it has the only circulating, non-reference collection of LGBT materials in the US.[16]

Infrastructure Edit

Transportation Edit

 
A trolley running along a now-defunct trolleyline in 1948

  Central Expressway (US 75) flanks the community on the east.   Spur 366, known locally as Woodall Rodgers Freeway, runs along the southern border of the community. The Lomac and Uptown portions of Oak Lawn are served by the free M-Line, provided by the McKinney Avenue Transit Authority and Dallas Area Rapid Transit. The Blue and Red light-rail lines stop at Cityplace Station, right outside Oak Lawn. Just outside Oak Lawn to the southwest is Victory Station in Victory Park, which is served by the Trinity Railway Express, both red and blue lines during special events, and regularly by the Green and Orange light rail lines. The two lines continue to the northwest, stopping at Market Center Station and Southwestern Medical District/Parkland Station within Oak Lawn.

Culture Edit

Main article: LGBT culture in Dallas–Fort Worth
 
The Oaklawn Halloween Block Party

Oak Lawn is considered to be the epicenter of Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex's gay- and lesbian-culture. Cedar Springs Road, between Oak Lawn Avenue and Wycliff Avenue, has numerous businesses, retail establishments, restaurants and night clubs catering to the LGBT community. The area has some of Dallas' most renowned gay bars and nightclubs, including Station 4 (formerly The Village Station), The Brick(now closed),[17] Woody's (formerly Moby Dick's), J.R.'s, Sue Ellen's (opened in the Throckmorton Mining Company's old location), The Mining Company (opened in the former location of Sue Ellen's), Havana, The Round-Up Saloon, Drama Room (formerly Mickey's and BJ's--now closed[18]), Alexandre's (formerly After Dark), Illusions (now closed), Pekers (formerly The Side 2 Bar and Phases), Zippers, BJ's NXS (formerly Crews Inn), Pub Pegasus, The Hidden Door, The Tin Room, Cross Bar (now closed), Marty's Live, Cedar Spring Tap House, Dallas Eagle (now closed), and others, most of which are located along, or close to, Cedar Springs Road. Oak Lawn is contiguous with the Dallas Design District and less than two miles away from Downtown Dallas.

The area also hosts some of the larger city festivals including the annual Halloween street festival, Dallas' Gay Pride parade, and Easter in the Park at Oak Lawn Park (formerly Robert E. Lee Park).

In 2014, Dallas's Oak Lawn was voted the number one gayborhood by Out Traveler.[19] In October 2018, Dallas made history when it became the first Texas city to get state recognition for its Oak Lawn LGBT neighborhood.[20]

There is a large concentration of Hispanic owned businesses, restaurants, grocery stores, nightclubs, and retail establishments on the Maple Avenue corridor between the Inwood Road and the North Dallas Tollway.

Architecture Edit

Oak Lawn is one of the older neighborhoods in Dallas. Continuous redevelopment of the neighborhood has created a mixture of architectural styles spanning much of the 20th century to the present day.

Measuring by structural height, the tallest buildings in or adjacent to Oak Lawn are as follows:[21]

  1. Cityplace Center, 560 feet (171 m) (42 floors)
  2. W Dallas Victory Hotel and Residences, 439 feet (134 m) (32 floors)
  3. Azure, 375 feet (114 m) (31 floors)
  4. 1900 McKinney (26 floors)
  5. Mayfair at Turtle Creek, 302 feet (92 m) (24 floors)
  6. 2500 McKinney, 285 feet (87 m) (25 floors)
  7. Ritz-Carlton, Dallas, 285 feet (87 m) (21 floors)
  8. 17 Seventeen McKinney (22 floors)
  9. Residences on McKinney, 231 feet (70 m) (22 floors)
  10. La Tour Condominiums (22 floors)
  11. McKinney Avenue Lofts (21 floors)
  12. The Ashton (20 floors)
  13. The Mondrian (20 floors)
  14. The Vendome, 252 feet (77 m) (20 floors)

See also Edit

References Edit

  1. ^ "Dallas".
  2. ^ "About|The Oak Lawn Committee".
  3. ^ "Oak Lawn Special Purpose District." City of Dallas. p. 1. Retrieved on November 19, 2011. "PD 193 is established on property generally bounded by Woodall Rodgers Freeway, North Central Expressway, the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Railroad, the city limits of the City of Highland Park, Bordeaux Avenue, Inwood Road, Denton Drive Cut-off, Maple Avenue, Cedar Springs Branch Creek, Harry Hines Boulevard, Oak Lawn Avenue, and Stemmons Freeway but excluding existing PD's within those boundaries. The size of PD 193 is approximately 2619.92 acres."
  4. ^ "Post Office Location - OAK LAWN." United States Postal Service. Retrieved on December 4, 2008.
  5. ^ "." Federal Bureau of Prisons. Retrieved on January 1, 2010. "SOUTH CENTRAL REGIONAL OFFICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS 4211 CEDAR SPRINGS RD DALLAS, TX 75219"
  6. ^ "RO South Central." Federal Bureau of Prisons. Retrieved on June 1, 2015. "US ARMED FORCES RESERVE CMPL GRAND PRAIRIE, TX 75051"
  7. ^ Uden, Tim. "BUG Britain & Ireland: The Backpackers' Ultimate Guide." BUG Backpackers Guide. 2005. 16.
  8. ^ "." Britain in USA. Retrieved on January 30, 2009.
  9. ^ a b Allen, Margaret. "Dallas' British Consulate to close in money-saving move." Dallas Business Journal. Friday April 1, 2005. Retrieved on May 9, 2009.
  10. ^ "Britain to close to High Commission in Nassau July 28, 2009, at the Wayback Machine." Caribbean Net News. Friday December 17, 2004. Retrieved on January 9, 2009.
  11. ^ Corchado, Alfredo. "Mexico removing Dallas consul general." The Dallas Morning News. Saturday August 15, 2009. Retrieved on August 27, 2009.
  12. ^ Resendiz, Julian. "For consulate, it's a big step Mexican officials say move to new building will go smoothly." The Dallas Morning News. June 18, 2009. Retrieved on August 28, 2009.
  13. ^ Nicholson, Eric. "Will Gentrification Destroy Dallas' Public Schools, or Will It Save Them?" Dallas Observer. Monday November 2, 2015. Retrieved on June 24, 2016.
  14. ^ Swartz, Mimi. "Going Public" ( 2015-12-26 at the Wayback Machine). Texas Monthly. February 2005. Retrieved on December 26, 2015.
  15. ^ Fowler, Jimmy. "School's out." Dallas Observer. November 13, 1997. p. 1 ( 2010-09-01 at the Wayback Machine). Retrieved on September 22, 2014.
  16. ^ "Library Pride aims to boost LGBT collection" http://www.dallasvoice.com/library-pride-aims-boost-lgbt-collection-10130015.html 2012-10-29 at the Wayback Machine
  17. ^ . www.dallasvoice.com. Archived from the original on 2016-06-25.
  18. ^ . Archived from the original on 2018-01-16. Retrieved 2017-07-18.
  19. ^ "Out Traveler Awards 2014: Best Gayborhoods". 8 December 2014.
  20. ^ "How did Dallas' Oak Lawn community get its start? Curious Texas investigates". Dallas News. 2019-03-14. Retrieved 2019-06-21.
  21. ^ "All buildings | Buildings". Emporis. Retrieved 2013-12-05.[dead link]

External links Edit

  • The Oak Lawn Committee, Inc.
  • GayDFW events/nightlife/restaurants in Oaklawn, Dallas, Fort Worth

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Oak Lawn is a neighborhood in Dallas Texas United States defined in Dallas City Ordinance 21859 as Planned Development District No 193 the Oak Lawn Special Purpose District The unofficial boundaries are Turtle Creek Boulevard Central Expressway the City of Highland Park Inwood Road and Harry Hines Boulevard It is over 12 square miles 31 km2 in area 2 citation needed Officially it is bounded by the City of Highland Park the North Central Expressway Stemmons Freeway Woodall Rodgers Freeway and other roads The district is within the boundary defined by the City of Dallas law excluding any existing planned development districts within 3 Oak LawnNickname GayborhoodLocation in Dallas Official UnofficialCountryUnited StatesStateTexasCountiesDallasCityDallasArea Total12 sq mi 31 km2 Elevation479 ft 146 m Population 2014 Total50 805 1 Population total includes combined population of Oak Lawn and UptownZIP codes75201 75204 75205 75219 75235 small area Area code s 214 469 972 945Websitehttp www oaklawncommittee org Contents 1 About 2 Geography 2 1 Neighborhoods 3 Government and infrastructure 4 Diplomatic missions 5 Education 5 1 Public schools 5 2 Private schools 5 3 Public Libraries 6 Infrastructure 6 1 Transportation 7 Culture 7 1 Architecture 8 See also 9 References 10 External linksAbout EditOak Lawn is one of the wealthier areas of metropolitan Dallas with the population consisting mainly of urban professionals The area is peppered with upscale townhouses condos apartments and duplexes Along the Uptown portion on McKinney Avenue and along Turtle Creek Boulevard there are many new high rise condominiums and apartments It is also a very diverse neighborhood with well established areas of older single family homes For most of the 20th century the southern portion of the neighborhood near the intersection of Cedar Springs Road and Harry Hines Blvd was known as Little Mexico St Anne s Catholic school served as the center for the community With the redevelopment of the neighborhood beginning in the 1980s Little Mexico vanished Only a few structures of this original community remain for most have been replaced by high rise office buildings luxury hotels and condominiums As of 2010 St Ann s Catholic School which had closed is now an upscale restaurant Oak Lawn became a magnet for the counterculture movement in the late 1960s due to its inexpensive apartments and its proximity to Turtle Creek Park formerly known as Lee Park and Oak Lawn Park Geography EditNeighborhoods Edit International Center Love Field neighborhood Turtle Creek Maple Dallas Perry HeightsGovernment and infrastructure EditThis section needs expansion You can help by adding to it December 2008 The United States Postal Service operates the Oak Lawn Post Office at 2825 Oak Lawn Avenue ZIP Code 75219 4 The Federal Bureau of Prisons South Central Region Office was previously in Oak Lawn 5 It has since moved to the U S Armed Forces Reserve Complex in Grand Prairie Texas 6 Diplomatic missions EditThe Consulate General of the United Kingdom in Dallas was located in Suite 940 at 2911 Turtle Creek Boulevard 7 8 In April 2005 the British government announced that it was closing the Dallas consulate in the summer of 2005 its territory was transferred to the consulate general in Houston It was one of 19 British diplomatic missions shut down around that time period 9 The Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the United Kingdom said that the consulates and embassies closed as a way to decrease costs 9 10 The Consulate General of Mexico in Dallas is also located in Oak Lawn Alfredo Corchado of The Dallas Morning News said that as of 2009 in terms of activity and size of the area Mexican population the Dallas consulate is considered to be the third most important Mexican consulate after Los Angeles and Chicago 11 The consulate moved from 8855 North Stemmons Freeway to 1210 River Bend Drive in January 2009 12 Education EditPublic schools Edit North Dallas High SchoolThe public schools in Oak Lawn are part of the Dallas Independent School District and are zoned permanent dead link among the following Ben Milam Elementary School Esperanza Hope Medrano Elementary School Maple Lawn Elementary School North Dallas High School Sam Houston Elementary School T J Rusk Middle SchoolThe William B Travis Academy Vanguard for the Academically Talented and Gifted is located near McKinney Avenue and Oak Grove Avenue In 2014 2015 its student body was 95 low income despite that it exceeded its performance targets Due to gentrification Sam Houston s enrollment declined to 201 students in the 2015 2016 school year while it had 302 students in the 2011 2012 school year 13 Irma Lerma Rangel Young Women s Leadership School was previously in Oak Lawn 14 Private schools Edit Holy Trinity Catholic School age 3 through 8th grade Dallas Christian Academy prekindergarten through 12th grade The Walt Whitman Community School WWCS an LGBT oriented private school was established in 1997 in Oak Lawn 15 It closed in 2004 Public Libraries Edit The Oak Lawn Branch of the Dallas Public Library serves the Oak Lawn area In addition to its regular library holdings it has the only circulating non reference collection of LGBT materials in the US 16 Infrastructure EditTransportation Edit A trolley running along a now defunct trolleyline in 1948 Central Expressway US 75 flanks the community on the east Spur 366 known locally as Woodall Rodgers Freeway runs along the southern border of the community The Lomac and Uptown portions of Oak Lawn are served by the free M Line provided by the McKinney Avenue Transit Authority and Dallas Area Rapid Transit The Blue and Red light rail lines stop at Cityplace Station right outside Oak Lawn Just outside Oak Lawn to the southwest is Victory Station in Victory Park which is served by the Trinity Railway Express both red and blue lines during special events and regularly by the Green and Orange light rail lines The two lines continue to the northwest stopping at Market Center Station and Southwestern Medical District Parkland Station within Oak Lawn DART Blue Line and Red LineCulture EditMain article LGBT culture in Dallas Fort Worth The Oaklawn Halloween Block PartyOak Lawn is considered to be the epicenter of Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex s gay and lesbian culture Cedar Springs Road between Oak Lawn Avenue and Wycliff Avenue has numerous businesses retail establishments restaurants and night clubs catering to the LGBT community The area has some of Dallas most renowned gay bars and nightclubs including Station 4 formerly The Village Station The Brick now closed 17 Woody s formerly Moby Dick s J R s Sue Ellen s opened in the Throckmorton Mining Company s old location The Mining Company opened in the former location of Sue Ellen s Havana The Round Up Saloon Drama Room formerly Mickey s and BJ s now closed 18 Alexandre s formerly After Dark Illusions now closed Pekers formerly The Side 2 Bar and Phases Zippers BJ s NXS formerly Crews Inn Pub Pegasus The Hidden Door The Tin Room Cross Bar now closed Marty s Live Cedar Spring Tap House Dallas Eagle now closed and others most of which are located along or close to Cedar Springs Road Oak Lawn is contiguous with the Dallas Design District and less than two miles away from Downtown Dallas The area also hosts some of the larger city festivals including the annual Halloween street festival Dallas Gay Pride parade and Easter in the Park at Oak Lawn Park formerly Robert E Lee Park In 2014 Dallas s Oak Lawn was voted the number one gayborhood by Out Traveler 19 In October 2018 Dallas made history when it became the first Texas city to get state recognition for its Oak Lawn LGBT neighborhood 20 There is a large concentration of Hispanic owned businesses restaurants grocery stores nightclubs and retail establishments on the Maple Avenue corridor between the Inwood Road and the North Dallas Tollway Architecture Edit Oak Lawn is one of the older neighborhoods in Dallas Continuous redevelopment of the neighborhood has created a mixture of architectural styles spanning much of the 20th century to the present day Measuring by structural height the tallest buildings in or adjacent to Oak Lawn are as follows 21 Cityplace Center 560 feet 171 m 42 floors W Dallas Victory Hotel and Residences 439 feet 134 m 32 floors Azure 375 feet 114 m 31 floors 1900 McKinney 26 floors Mayfair at Turtle Creek 302 feet 92 m 24 floors 2500 McKinney 285 feet 87 m 25 floors Ritz Carlton Dallas 285 feet 87 m 21 floors 17 Seventeen McKinney 22 floors Residences on McKinney 231 feet 70 m 22 floors La Tour Condominiums 22 floors McKinney Avenue Lofts 21 floors The Ashton 20 floors The Mondrian 20 floors The Vendome 252 feet 77 m 20 floors See also Edit LGBT portalGay village LGBT rights in TexasReferences Edit Dallas About The Oak Lawn Committee Oak Lawn Special Purpose District City of Dallas p 1 Retrieved on November 19 2011 PD 193 is established on property generally bounded by Woodall Rodgers Freeway North Central Expressway the Missouri Kansas and Texas Railroad the city limits of the City of Highland Park Bordeaux Avenue Inwood Road Denton Drive Cut off Maple Avenue Cedar Springs Branch Creek Harry Hines Boulevard Oak Lawn Avenue and Stemmons Freeway but excluding existing PD s within those boundaries The size of PD 193 is approximately 2619 92 acres Post Office Location OAK LAWN United States Postal Service Retrieved on December 4 2008 South Central Region Office Federal Bureau of Prisons Retrieved on January 1 2010 SOUTH CENTRAL REGIONAL OFFICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS 4211 CEDAR SPRINGS RD DALLAS TX 75219 RO South Central Federal Bureau of Prisons Retrieved on June 1 2015 US ARMED FORCES RESERVE CMPL GRAND PRAIRIE TX 75051 Uden Tim BUG Britain amp Ireland The Backpackers Ultimate Guide BUG Backpackers Guide 2005 16 British Consulate Dallas Texas Britain in USA Retrieved on January 30 2009 a b Allen Margaret Dallas British Consulate to close in money saving move Dallas Business Journal Friday April 1 2005 Retrieved on May 9 2009 Britain to close to High Commission in Nassau Archived July 28 2009 at the Wayback Machine Caribbean Net News Friday December 17 2004 Retrieved on January 9 2009 Corchado Alfredo Mexico removing Dallas consul general The Dallas Morning News Saturday August 15 2009 Retrieved on August 27 2009 Resendiz Julian For consulate it s a big step Mexican officials say move to new building will go smoothly The Dallas Morning News June 18 2009 Retrieved on August 28 2009 Nicholson Eric Will Gentrification Destroy Dallas Public Schools or Will It Save Them Dallas Observer Monday November 2 2015 Retrieved on June 24 2016 Swartz Mimi Going Public Archived 2015 12 26 at the Wayback Machine Texas Monthly February 2005 Retrieved on December 26 2015 Fowler Jimmy School s out Dallas Observer November 13 1997 p 1 Archived 2010 09 01 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved on September 22 2014 Library Pride aims to boost LGBT collection http www dallasvoice com library pride aims boost lgbt collection 10130015 html Archived 2012 10 29 at the Wayback Machine The Brick Joe s saying farewell after 25 years www dallasvoice com Archived from the original on 2016 06 25 The Drama Room is closed Dallas Voice Archived from the original on 2018 01 16 Retrieved 2017 07 18 Out Traveler Awards 2014 Best Gayborhoods 8 December 2014 How did Dallas Oak Lawn community get its start Curious Texas investigates Dallas News 2019 03 14 Retrieved 2019 06 21 All buildings Buildings Emporis Retrieved 2013 12 05 dead link Emporis com World North America U S A Dallas TX 1 dead link External links EditThe Oak Lawn Committee Inc GayDFW events nightlife restaurants in Oaklawn Dallas Fort Worth Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Oak Lawn Dallas amp oldid 1149838599, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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