At Candysdirt.com, we often get tipped off about news and rumors, but with the demolition of the Mushroom House at 4200 Armstrong yesterday fresh on our minds, we’re apt to share this nugget: The beautiful 1938 Neo-Greek Revival at 4231 Armstrong Parkway, designed for oilman Charles Pettit, may be headed for the wrecking ball. It’s one of three custom homes Robert Goodwin and Herbert M. Tatum designed on Armstrong Parkway.
The home is important enough to have scored a full page photo by Steve Clique, in “Great American Suburbs, The Homes of the Park Cities, Dallas,” by Virginia Savage McAlester, Willis Winters, and Prudence Mackintosh, which is the best reference on Park Cities history and architecture to be found.
In this house, the architect incorporated A Greek Revival portico and pediment, which recall Thomas Jefferson’s Neoclassical facades at Monticello and the University of Virginia. In the Pettit residence, Goodwin & Tatum designed one of the finest Neo-Greek Revival houses in Dallas…