Municipal Archives

Dallas Park and Recreation Department Plans and Drawings, 1909-2002

​Collection 2002-001

Overview

Repository
Office of the City Secretary
Dallas Municipal Archives
1500 Marilla Street, 5D South
Dallas, Texas 75201
CreatorDallas Park and Recreation Department
TitleDallas Park and Recreation Department Plans and Drawings
Dates1909-2002
Quantity1500 sheets
AbstractPlans and drawings of park landscape architecture and park structures.
Identification2002-001
Language Records are in English
​

Scope and Content

Collection consists of architectural plans and drawings of City of Dallas parks, green spaces, recreation centers, and park-related structures. 

As of 2023, the Dallas Park and Recreation Department offers 21,000 park acres through the Dallas park and recreation system, which includes 17 lakes, 182 miles of jogging and bike trails, 42 recreation centers, 1020 sports complexes, 412 parks, 21 pools, six 18-hole golf courses, four tennis centers, 243 athletic fields, two driving ranges, and the 106-acre Dallas Zoo.  The first city-owned park was City Park, which opened in 1876 with approximately 19 acres.

Some park names have changed over time; former known names are shown in parentheses in the container list.

All but one box's contents in this collection is an oversized object.

Organization

The collection is organized alphabetically.

Access

Permission to publish, reproduce, distribute, ​or use by any and all other current or future developed methods or procedures must be obtained in writing from the Dallas Municipal Archives.  All rights are reserved and retained regardless of current or future development or laws that may apply to fair use standards.  The researcher assumes full responsibility for observing all copyright, property, and libel laws as they apply.

Citation

Dallas Park and Recreation Department Plans and Drawings, 1909-2002 (Box <x>, Folder <y>),  Dallas Municipal Archives

Related Materials

Pathfinder 2— Resources for Researching City of Dallas Parks​
1995-023—Dallas Department of Park and Recreation General Subject Files, 1911-Current​

Index Terms

Architecture -- Texas -- Dallas
Dallas -- Texas -- History
Parks -- Texas -- Dallas

Container List - Box

Box
 Description, Date
1
Negatives of Hall of State plans, 1935-1936


Container List - Flat files

​Drawer
​Description, Date​
B10
Alamo
B10
Apache
D3Aston
B10Bachman Lake
B10Beckley Heights
B10Beckley - Saner
B10Beverly Hills
B10Brownwood
D3Buckner
D3Casa Linda
D3Cedar Crest 1
D3Cedar Crest 2
B10Central Square
D4Central Yard 
D4Cherrywood
[foldered with Cheyenne, Churchill]
D4Cheyenne
[foldered with Cherrywood, Churchill]
D4Churchill
[foldered with Cherrywood; Cheyenne]
D4City 1
B10City 2
B10Cochran
D4Cole 
D4Colonial
C2Color renderings
B10
​Craddock
B10Crawford
B10Crawford/Union Terminal
B10Crown
A6Dealey Plaza 1
E5Dealey Plaza 2
E5Dealey Plaza 3
D5Ewing Street Yard
A6Exall
A6Exline 1
D5Exline 2
B3Fair 1
A6
​Fair 2
E5Fair 3
D5Fair 4
D5Fair 5
D5Fair 6
B3Fair 7
E5Fair 8 - Administration Building
D5Fair 9 - Band Shell and Amphitheater
D5Fair 10 - Civil Defense
E6Fair 11 - The Comet
D6Fair 12 - Cotton Bowl
B3Fair 13 - Dallas Garden Center
E6Fair 14 - Dallas Garden Center
E6Fair 14 - Dallas Garden Center
E6Fair 15 - Dallas Garden Center
D6Fair 16 - Dallas Health Museum (Domestic Arts)
D6Fair 17 - Hall of State
E6Fair 18 - Hall of State
E6Fair 19 - Hall of State
E6Fair 20 - Hall of State
B3Fair 21 - Horticultural Museum
D2Fair 22 - Livestock Facilities
D7Fair 23 - Museum of Fine Arts
B3Fair 24 - Museum of Natural History
B3Fair 25 - Museum of Natural History
B3Fair 26 - Museum of Natural History
D7Fair 27 - Museum of Natural History
B3Fair 28 - Old Mill Inn (Youngblood's)
D7Fair 29 - Parry Gate
D7Fair 30 - Planting Plan
A6Fair 31 - Sculpture Court
A6Fair 32 - Toilets​
D8Fair 33 - Underground Systems
A6Fair 34 - WRR
A6Ferguson Road
A7Ferris (Union Station Plaza) 1
​E7
Ferris (Union Station Plaza) 1
​B3
​Fruitdale,  7/30/1981
B3Garrett 1
E7Garrett 2
B3Glendale
B3Griggs (Hall Street Negro)
B3Hamilton
A7Harry Stone (Materhorn) 1
E7Harry Stone (Materhorn) 2
E7Harry Stone (Materhorn) 3
E7Harry Stone (Materhorn) 4
E7Herndon
A7Highland Hills
D8Jaycee-Zaragoza
D8Joppa (South Central)
[Housed with Jaycee-Zaragoza]
A7Juanita Craft (Wahoo) 1
D8Juanita Craft (Wahoo) 2
E7Kidd Springs
A7Kiest 1
E7Kiest 2
A7Lake Cliff 1
D8Lake Cliff 2
A7Lake Cliff 3
E7Lake Cliff 4
B4Lawnview
[Housed with Lizzie Oliver]
D8
Lee (Oak Lawn, Turtle Creek) 1
A7Lee (Oak Lawn, Turtle Creek) 2
E8Lee (Oak Lawn, Turtle Creek) 3
B4Lizzie Oliver
[Housed with Lawnview]
B4Lochwood
A7Maple
A7Maple
A7Maple
A7Maple
A7Martin Weiss 1
E8Martin Weiss 2
D8
Martin Weiss 3
B4
Mattie Nash-Myrtle Davis (North Hampton)
D8
McCree
A7
Mildred Dunn (Lagow)
A7
Moore (Eighth Street Negro Park)
D8
Moss
E8
Mountain Creek Lake
A7
North Lake
D9
Northaven 1
A7
Northhaven 2
[Housed with Northwood]
A7
Northwood
[Housed with Northaven 2]
D9Oak Cliff
A7Owenwood
E8Parkdale
D9Pecan Grove
[Housed with Preston Hollow]
D9Pemberton
[Housed with Pioneer, Pleasant Grove, and Polk]
D9Pike (Summit) 1
D9Pike (Summit) 2
D9Pioneer Cemetery
[Housed with Pemberton, Pleasant Grove, and Polk]
D9Pleasant Grove
[Housed with Pioneer, Pemberton, and Polk]
D9Pleasant Oaks 1
D9Pleasant Oaks 2
D9Pleasant Oaks 3
D9Polk
[Housed with Pemberton, Pioneer, and Pleasant Grove] 
A8Preston Hollow
[Housed with Pecan Grove]
E8Reverchon (Cole Purchase) 1
A7Reverchon (Cole Purchase) 2
A8Ridgewood
E8Rochester
[Housed with Royal]
E8Royal
[Housed with Rochester]
E8Samuell 1
E9Samuell 2
E9Samuell 3
E9Samuell 4
E9Stevens
A8Tenison 1
E9Tenison 2
E9Thomas Hill
E9Tietze (Keith)
B4Trinity Play (Fretz)
A8Turner Plaza
E9Turtle Creek Parkway
A8Valley View
A8Veterans Park
A8Walford
A8Walnut Hill 1
E11Walnut Hill 2
E11Walnut Hill 3
B4Webb Chapel
A9West Dallas Housing Project
B4Westmoreland (Seeligson)
B4Wheatley 
C4White Rock Lake 1
C4White Rock Lake 2
E11
White Rock Lake 3
C4White Rock Lake 4 (Arboretum)
E11
White Rock Lake 5 (Arboretum)
C4
White Rock Lake 6 (Bath House)
E11
White Rock Lake 7 (Bath House)
C4White Rock Lake 8 (Boat House)
C4White Rock Lake 9 (Dixon, Doran)
C4White Rock Lake 10 (Spillway)
E12
White Rock Lake 11 (Winfrey Point)
​E12
​Willis Winters (Randall)
A9Zang Blvd
B4Zoo (Marsalis) 1
E12
Zoo (Marsalis) 2
E12
Zoo (Marsalis) 3
E12
Zoo (Marsalis) 4
E12
Zoo (Marsalis) 5
E13
Zoo (Marsalis) 6
E13
Zoo (Marsalis) 7
A9Zoo (Marsalis) 8
E13
Zoo (Marsalis) 9
E13
Zoo (Marsalis) 10
E13
Zoo (Marsalis) 11
A9Zoo (Marsalis) 12
A9Zoo (Marsalis) 13
E13
Zoo (Marsalis) 14
B4
Zoo (Marsalis) 15
​E13
​Zoo (Marsalis) 16
A9
Zoo (Marsalis) 17


Container List - Rolls

​ShelfDescription, Date
A1Bluff View - topographical pap, 12/1947
A1Cole Purchase, undated
A5Craddock - topography map, undated
A1Craddock Park, 1947
A5Dallas Annexation district, undated
A5Dallas Annexation maps, undated
A1Dallas Arboretum - Alex Camp residence, 1937
A5Dallas downtown garage for the City of Dallas, undated
A5Dallas Water Utilities - experimental sprinkling filter beds, undated
A3Dallas Zoo (Marsalis Park) 18 - preliminary plan, c. 1945
A3Dallas Zoo (Marsalis Park) 18 - preliminary study for revision of MPZ, 11/1/1956
A3Dallas Zoo (Marsalis Park) 18 - proposed train route, undated
A3Dallas Zoo (Marsalis Park) 18 - topographical survey, 2/27/1947
A5Dallas Zoo (Marsalis Park) 19 - preliminary plan, undated
E4Dallas Zoo (Marsalis Park) 20 - front entry, parking, and lemur exhibit, 1995
A1Dealey Plaza - approach, undated
A5Dealey Plaza - highway approach to Dealey Plaza, undated
A1Exall - Topography Map, 11/1948
A1Exall - Topography Map, 11/1948
A1Exall Park, 11/8/1918
A1Exall Park, 1948
A2Fair - Architectural Plans, Sheets A1-A7. Mechanical plans, Sheet M1. Exhibit Building S1-S4, E1. Automobile, Aviation, Recreation Building, 7/1946
A2Fair - Building Unit #1 Secs. No. 45, A-E Arena 57, Sheets A1-A16, S1-S4, 1936
A1Fair - Centennial Central Exhibition exhibit building, 1936
A1Fair - exhibits building, 12/16/1946
A2Fair - Foods Building, 9/16/1935
A2Fair - Improvements - fencing and pools, 3/1937
A2Fair - location and grading plan, floor plan, elevations, entrance details, 1947
A3Fair - Music Hall (Municipal Auditorium) 1, 1920s
A4Fair - Music Hall (Municipal Auditorium) 2, 1924
A4Fair - Music Hall (Municipal Auditorium) 3, 1925
A2Fair - NSEW entrances, toilets, details, 1946
A2Fair - planting plan – Automobile, Aviation, and Recreation Building, 1946c
A1Fair - planting plan: Building 43 (4 and 5), Buildings 45, 46, and 57, 1/24/1936
A2Fair - Planting plans, undated
A5Fair - study for parking and planting around the Automobile, Aviation, and Recreation Building, undated
E5Fair - Texas Centennial Automobile Building - Ford Motor Co., 1936
A5Fair - Texas Centennial Central Exhibition - planting plan - east half of stadium
A2Fair - Texas Centennial Central Exhibition - planting plan: Buildings 1 & 2, 7 & 8, 17, 22 & 37, 29, 38, 4/18/1936
A3Ferris Plaza - Union Station Plaza No. 2, 3, and 4, 1919
A5General plan for a system of parks and boulevards for the city of Dallas, Texas, undated
A3Griggs - proposed walks, curb, and gutter, 12/6/1950
A2Griggs - topographic map, 7/1949
A3Hampton - topographic map, 11/1948
A3Kidd Springs - planting plan: Japanese garden, undated, 1970s
A5Lake Cliff - Rose Garden dimension and grading plan, undated
A3Lake Cliff - Rose Garden planting plan, 7/21/1940
A3Lee - map showing proposed improvement, 7/16/1940
A3Lee - topographical map, 4/20/1940
A3Martin Weiss - Plan for additional planting, 1/5/1954
A3Martin Weiss - Plan for additional planting, 1/5/1954
A1Meyerson Symphony Center (The Dallas Opera), 1982
A4Moore – Topography, undated
E3Old City Park 1, 1974-1982
E3Old City Park 2, 1986
E3Old City Park 3, undated​​
A4Reverchon - Stadia Traverses - Cole Purchase and Vicinity, 4/29/1915
A4Reverchon, undated
A4Samuell - dimension and grading plan, 10/17/1946
A4Samuell - planting plan, 8/25/1947
A4Samuell - planting plan, 8/25/1947
A4Samuell - topographical map of Samuell property, 5/29/1940
A4Samuell-Gr​and - Memorial Garden planting plan, Feb. 1952
A4System of Parks - parkways, undated
A4Tension - Memorial Gates, undated
A4Tension - topography picnic area, 11/5/1941
A5Thomas Hill Tract, undated
A4Turtle Creek Parkway - plans for the development of Turtle Creek Parkway.  Cross-section of Turtle Creek–1911, 2/22/1915
E4Union Station 1, 1914
A4Union Station Plaza - Plan No. A, B, D, E, F, and H, 10/30/1919
A5Union Terminal, undated
A1White Rock Lake - Bath House Cultural Center 1, 1996
A1White Rock Lake - Bath House Cultural Center 2, 1986-1987
A1White Rock Lake - Bath House Cultural Center 3, 1987
A1White Rock Lake - Bath House Cultural Center 4, 1987
A5Zangs Boulevard - paving plat - curb and gutter from Davis St. to Clarendon Dr., 2/1941