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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.

Read more at the Lakewood-East Dallas Advocate.


The Lakewood-East Dallas Advocate is part of a chain of hyperlocal websites covering communities around Dallas.

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