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Period-Correct Restoration for the Beverly Drive Houses
Highland Park is the most carefully preserved residential district in North Texas, and the fireplaces inside its 1920s Tudor revivals, English cottages, and Georgian estates are usually the room’s quietest argument for the house’s original architecture. When those fireplaces are remodeled, the work has to read as if it had always been there. Texas Service Experts has built its Highland Park practice around exactly that brief. We work on the original-stone Beverly Drive houses, the Hackberry Creek estates, the Armstrong Parkway frontage, and the small Mockingbird Lane cottages with the same standard of period research and material specification. Every project is led by a design director from initial walkthrough to final punch. To begin, schedule a consultation at ☎ 214-444-8094 or use the form below. The visit takes ninety minutes and covers each fireplace under consideration. The written proposal arrives within ten business days with fixed pricing and a defined scope.Architectural Context: The Highland Park Stock
Highland Park was master-planned by Wilbur David Cook in 1907 and built out across the following thirty years, with the most architecturally significant homes constructed between 1922 and 1939. The Tudor revival is the dominant idiom on Beverly Drive, Lakeside, and Armstrong, with steep gabled roofs, half-timbering over stucco or brick infill, leaded casement windows, and the heavy stone surrounds that defined the period. The Georgian and Colonial revival language runs strongly through Hackberry Creek and the western reaches of Lomo Alto, with restrained brick fronts, classical pediments, and central-hall plans. A meaningful share of the housing stock is also French Provincial and Mediterranean, particularly along the lake and on the older Highland Park Village-adjacent blocks. The fireplaces in these homes were almost always the work of named architects and named masons. Hal Thomson, John Staub, Mark Lemmon, and Charles Dilbeck designed many of the houses still standing, and the original fireboxes were built by Dallas masons working with Lueders limestone, Texas cream cordova, and local hand-cast brick. The hearths are typically generous — five to seven feet wide on the great rooms, with carved mantels in pecan, white oak, or stained pine, and overmantel detailing that reads as architectural rather than decorative. When a Highland Park fireplace is remodeled, the imperative is conservation first: keep what is original, replace only what has failed, and add nothing that announces itself as new. Median home values in the 75205 zip currently sit at $1.89 million, and the houses turn over slowly. The buyer expects period correctness as a baseline.Our Fireplace Remodel Approach in Highland Park
A Highland Park fireplace remodel begins with a documentation visit. We measure the existing firebox, photograph the original mantel and overmantel detail, identify the stone source where possible, and scope the chimney from the smoke chamber up. The flue conditions in the 1920s and 1930s housing stock are the single most important variable on any remodel. Original clay-tile liners are often cracked, original mortar is often deteriorated, and the smoke chamber is often parged in a way that no longer meets current code. We address these conditions before any visible finish work begins. We do not put new stone over a marginal mechanical condition. The design direction is set in conversation with the homeowner and the interior designer. In most cases the brief is restoration rather than reinvention — keep the original opening proportions, refinish or replicate the existing mantel, and reset the surround in a stone that matches the original quarry where the original is no longer serviceable. When the brief is more transformative, we work in a contained idiom: a calmer surround, a re-proportioned hearth, a refined steel firebox liner, and a sealed gas insert that preserves the look of an open hearth without the heat-loss penalty. The mantel is often refinished rather than replaced — original old-growth pecan and white oak from the 1920s is irreplaceable, and we treat it accordingly. Material specification on a Highland Park project is unusually tight. We source Lueders limestone from the original Eastland County quarries, hand-cast brick to match the original kiln color, and reclaimed white oak from period demolition stock for any new mantel work. Tile is hand-glazed by small-batch makers when the original is no longer available. Where reproduction is required, we replicate rather than approximate. The work is led by a design director throughout.Investment Range for Highland Park Fireplace Remodel
A great-room fireplace remodel in Highland Park typically runs forty-eight thousand to ninety-five thousand dollars. The variables are the condition of the original firebox and chimney, the scope of mantel and overmantel work, and the stone source. A simple surround refresh on a sound original chimney runs at the lower end. A full restoration with chimney reline, smoke chamber rebuild, mantel replication in reclaimed material, and overmantel detailing runs at the upper end. Whole-house fireplace coordination across two to four hearths in a single Beverly Drive or Lakeside estate runs ninety-five thousand to one hundred eighty thousand dollars. Pricing is delivered as fixed in the written proposal, with allowances called out separately for any client-selected upgrades. We do not bill on time and material on Highland Park projects.Process and Timeline
The first visit is a ninety-minute consultation at the home. Within ten business days you receive a written proposal with fixed pricing, a scope of work, and a preliminary schedule. Design and material selection runs three to six weeks for a single fireplace and five to nine weeks for whole-house coordination. Permits in the Town of Highland Park are reviewed carefully and typically issue within two to three weeks of submission. Build duration on a single great-room remodel is three to five weeks of intermittent work, with the family in the house. Whole-house coordination runs six to ten weeks, sequenced to the GC schedule. We coordinate with your interior designer and architect throughout, and we leave each space clean each evening. Final walkthrough is conducted by the design director, not by a foreman.Recently Completed in Highland Park
**A 1928 Tudor revival on Beverly Drive.** The homeowners had bought the house from a long-time owner and were doing a careful main-level restoration with a Dallas-based architect. The original great-room fireplace had a Lueders limestone surround in good condition, an original hand-cast brick firebox with a cracked clay-tile liner, and a stained pecan mantel that had been overpainted in the 1970s. We relined the chimney with a stainless system sized to the original opening, rebuilt the smoke chamber to current code, stripped and refinished the original mantel back to the pecan, and reset two cracked stones in the surround with quarry-matched Lueders. The fireplace reads exactly as it did in the original 1928 photograph the owners had on file. **A Hackberry Creek Georgian.** The clients were doing a top-to-bottom refresh on a 1934 Georgian and asked us to coordinate three fireplaces — great room, library, and primary suite. The brief was conservation in the great room and library, and a contemporary intervention in the primary suite. We restored the original Lueders limestone surround in the great room, replicated the original mantel in the library using reclaimed white oak after the original had been damaged by water, and installed a quietly modern honed limestone surround with a sealed direct-vent insert in the primary suite. All three were finished within the same week to allow a single punch walk.Frequently Asked Questions
**My Highland Park fireplace is original to the 1929 build. Can it be restored rather than replaced?** In most cases, yes. The original Lueders limestone, hand-cast brick, and pecan mantel work in Highland Park houses is almost always worth saving. We document existing conditions, identify what has failed mechanically, and restore the visible work. The chimney and firebox are typically where the work happens. The visible surround is usually preserved. **How do you handle chimney conditions in 1920s and 1930s housing stock?** Carefully and structurally. Original clay-tile liners are often cracked and require relining with a stainless system. Original smoke chambers are often parged in ways that no longer meet code and require rebuild. Original mortar is often deteriorated and requires repointing. We scope all of this on the consultation and address it before any visible finish work begins. **Can you replicate a damaged or missing mantel using period-correct material?** Yes. We work with a small group of millwork shops that source reclaimed pecan, white oak, and longleaf pine from period demolition stock. We replicate the original profile from photographs and measurements where the original is no longer serviceable. The reproduction is indistinguishable from the original after install. **Do you work with the Town of Highland Park on permits and historical considerations?** Yes. Highland Park has its own building department and its own review standards. We submit drawings, coordinate inspections, and handle the process directly. Most fireplace remodel scopes are routine and issue within two to three weeks. **Will my house be lived in during the work?** Yes, in nearly every case. Single-fireplace remodels are three to five weeks of intermittent work. We protect adjacent finishes carefully, leave the space clean each evening, and coordinate any noisy or dusty phases with the family schedule.Schedule a Consultation
To begin a Highland Park fireplace remodel, schedule a consultation with the design director. The visit is by appointment at the home. Call ☎ 214-444-8094 or use the form below.Internal Links
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