Highland Meadows Neighborhood Association

Highland Meadows Preservation Award 2026
Sunday May 3, 2026 / 4:00 - 6:00 PM

Celebrate National Historic Preservation Month. Join neighbors and architecture enthusiasts for our annual Preservation Award. Enjoy craft cocktails, hors-d'ouevres, and live jazz music by Julian Sutherland.

Proceeds benefit Highland Meadows Preservation Foundation and support preservation, conservation and beautification within our neighborhood.

The Highland Meadows Preservation Award honors noteworthy efforts by individuals to preserve, restore or maintain the unique architectural heritage of our neighborhood.

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Location available with ticket.

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Wisteria is one of the first signs of Spring!

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2026 Membership Drive

February 5 - March 5, 2026

Thank you to all of our new and renewing members!

Joining Highland Meadows Neighborhood Association is a great way to get involved, meet your neighbors, and have a voice in the community.

Whether you are interested in our architecture, parks, community events, pet watch, crime watch, beautification, or preservation; membership opens up a host of opportunities to participate, volunteer, and share your talents.

Help us build a better neighborhood!

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Looking back 70 years ago at the blizzard of 1956, Dallas streets covered in ice made driving conditions hazardous, and in some cases impossible.

photo: Highland Meadows Neighborhood Archive

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Highland Meadows Neighborhood Association has recently entered an agreement with Dallas Parks & Recreation to create Friends of McCree Pars.

This partnership will assure that we will have a greater influence on the design, maintenance, care, and conservation of McCree Park, McCree Annex Park, and McCree East Park which are all within the boundaries of Highland Meadows.

Join us on Sunday January 18, 2026 to learn more.
McCree Park, 9016 Plano Rd
3:00 PM

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Highland Meadows Preservation

Established in 1959, Barkley Square was developed by Frank H Malone with homes built by Leland G Lee Jr and Lee Construction Company.

Homes in Barkley Square were offered in thirty different designs in period architecture of Mid-Century Ranch and Early American Ranch. Homes were advertised as the "House of Ease" and were built including over twenty revolutionary building products by Reynolds Metals Company. Homes were three bedroom, two bath, family room, completely furnished kitchen, two car garage, fireplace, air conditioning with a General Electric heat pump and insulation with Owens Corning fiberglass... All for the starting price of $20,000.

The Ranch-Style house is a uniquely American style of architecture, it began in the 1930's in Los Angeles and quickly spread across the country. At the end of World War II, war veterans who had been offered generous home loans returned home, ready to resume their lives and raise families. However, scarcity during the Great Depression and the war led to few houses being built and a pent-up demand. "While architects in Western Europe and the Soviet Union met the need by building high-rise apartment blocks, Americans created a consumer product that people wanted to buy, and that was the Ranch-Style house." Alan Hess, architectural historian.

Barkley Square advertisement, November 1959, courtesy of Highland Meadows Neighborhood Association Archive.

Learn more about our neighborhood and its important place in the history of Dallas, post-war America, and Mid-Century architecture by visiting www.highlandmeadowsneighborhood.org

Spooktacular!

Thank you to all of our neighbors who decorated for Halloween.

Please take time to enjoy the crisp fall weather, take a stroll through our neighborhood at night and enjoy the spooky season.

Mediterranean Gardens + Sylvania Dells Architecture Tour

Explore the Homes, the Architects, and the Hidden History!

Saturday, October 25, 2025

10:00 AM

Join us for a guided walking architecture tour of Mediterranean Gardens + Sylvania Dells. Learn more about this pioneering mid-century residential development, The distinctive homes crafted by visionary architects, and the individuals who commissioned the homes.

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Highland meadows Neighborhood Association's Yard of the Month recognizes outstanding homes and the neighbors who do a superior job maintaining their yards in a way that enhances the overall appeal of our entire community.

September 2025 - Yard of the Month - Designed by Nature

Rowland and Maggie Jackson happened to come across a newly placed "for sale" sign in the yard of a stunning mid-century home in 1982. Rowland pulled up the sign and walked to the door and knocked... Fast forward forty three years, Rowland and Maggie are still in love with their home and the grounds that surround it....

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Highland Meadows Neighborhood Association's Yard of the Month recognizes outstanding homes and the neighbors who do a superior job maintaining their yards in a way that enhances the overall appeal of our entire community.

Herb and Pat Linder were on their way to Churches Fried Chicken on a Sunday in 1971, when they passed by a handful of homes under construction in the newly developed Caribbean Estates section of our neighborhood. Pat encouraged her husband to stop and take a look, and later that day they contacted the designer and builder James A Loven. Soon thereafter they were moving into their new home with their newborn son.

Pat has always had a passion for for gardening and has been awarded HMNA's Yard of the Month twice before, to say she has a "green thumb" is an understatement. She is a skilled gardener with a gift for making things grow. Over the years and with countless hours of planning and hard work, Pat has created a comfortable country garden...

Read more at www.highlandmeadowsneighborhood.org/yard-of-the-month

Notable Neighbors

From the beginning in 1952 our neighborhood has been home to architects, artists, authors, actors, entrepreneuers, executives, engineers, educators, scientists, musicians, publishers, producers, and inventors...

Notable Neighbors celebrates the lives and accomplishments of the amazing individuals who live next door and add to the rich history of our neighborhood.

Dr. Masashi Kawasaki - Pioneering Otorhinolaryngologist + Honorary Consular General of Japan

Learn more about our neighborhood and its important place in the history of Dallas, post-war America and mid-century architecture by visiting www.highlandmeadowsneighborhood.org

Thank you to everyone who joined our first Highland Meadows Neighborhood Bio Blitz led by our neighborhood Master Naturalists Evo Lineberry and Connie Koval! It was wonderful to experience nature in one of our neighborhood conservation areas and share time with our community.

Our small but intrepid group were able to identify 28 different species in an hour and a half! We learned about various types of wildflowers and insects in McCree Annex Park, spotted a few rabbits, and observed Red Tailed Hawks and Mississippi Kites hunting for prey. All of our observation data was recorded and shared with conservation experts.

We look forward to hosting our next Bio Blitz in the Fall!

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