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Watch: First Swiss Avenue Home Tour Featured In 1973 Footage
For $5, Dallas neighbors could look inside six of the big beauties.
By Jaime Dunaway
August 7th, 2020
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The year was 1973, and for the first time, Swiss Avenue residents threw open their doors for a home tour to raise money for a historic district zoning ordinance.
Channel 8 covered the tour and gave viewers a peek inside one of the elegant mansions on the famous avenue.
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For $5, Dallas neighbors could look inside six of the big beauties. Money raised was used to fight for the historic designation to keep commercial development from encroaching on the neighborhood.
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