Connell Baptist Church, 1949-51. Arlington Heights Baptist Church members formed a congregation on January 4, 1925. Construction of a building now used for education began the same year and was completed in 1929. It was extensively altered in the 1960s. Renamed in 1929 G. H. Connell Memorial Baptist Church after an influential charter member, the … Read more
This two-story house was constructed for Morris Berney’s sisters, Misses E. Gertrude and Margaret L. Berney, presumably by Berney’s own firm, Anderson-Berney Building Co. Berney (1101 Broad Avenue) was a developer of Ridglea, which was laid out to the landscape designs of Hare and Hare of Kansas City. The eclectic house is a staggered L-plan, … Read more
Russell R. Griffith of the Litho Plate Graining Co. of Texas commissioned Dallas architect Charles Dilbeck to design his house on a slight rise above the spreading river bottom land near Ridglea. The basically rectangular plan of one and one-half stories features a hexagonal, peaked stair tower and a staggered hip roof with hipped and … Read more
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