Homes in the Knox neighborhood of Northern Heights don’t trade often, and when they do, they get attention. That’s certainly the case for this David Griffin listing at 3503 Edgewater, and why we’re giving you this bonus edition of the Highlight Home of the Week, sponsored by Lisa Peters, Senior Financial Officer with First Horizon.
Designed by architect Gary Cunningham of Cunningham Architects, this 3,552-square-foot home sits on the Katy Trail with more than 50 feet of wooded frontage. That’s rare on its own. According to Griffin, only eight homes in Northern Heights have full frontage on the Katy Trail, which gives this property the kind of site amenity that many in this part of Dallas wait decades to become available.
The trail is not just nearby, but it’s also the organizing principle of the house. Cunningham sought to use the site like a design brief, orienting the home so the trees, privacy, and changing light are part of the home’s daily architecture. That sounds like design-speak, but really it means the architect thought about what the light would look like in this home for every waking hour of the day — and season of the year.
“There’s window placement on all four sides of the home, which brings morning light and movement of the sun through all the home’s spaces,” Griffin said. “Times of day and seasons do different things to the light, and all of this makes the space feel more alive.”
The home is one of two freestanding residences on this lot, set behind a gate and private driveway off Edgewater. That gives it a level of privacy you wouldn’t typically associate with a bustling part of town like this area between Knox and Fitzhugh…