Downtown Dallas Historic Core

At Deep Ellum's western edge, where the neighborhood meets the city — and where early radio broadcasts carried the sound of these streets across Texas.

The former Southwestern Bell / AT&T corporate campus being converted into a mixed-use public district — what happens when a corporation's headquarters tries to become a neighborhood.

The tallest building in Dallas — known locally as 'The Jolly Green Giant' for the green argon tube lighting that outlines its crown at night.

Built in 1900 by Dallas Morning News founder A.H. Belo — the oldest surviving mansion in Dallas.

The oldest Catholic church in Dallas, founded in 1902 — the spiritual anchor of the Mexican-American community that built much of this city.

I.M. Pei's 1978 inverted pyramid — deliberately unsettling architecture for a city that hoped to signal a new era of urban confidence.

Operating since 1941 as the hub of North Texas agricultural commerce — still the largest farmers market in the Southwest, evolving from wholesale to public market.

Henry Cobb's 1986 crystalline tower — the most distinctive silhouette on the Dallas skyline and an icon of 1980s commercial architecture.

The 1912 concrete viaduct connecting downtown to Oak Cliff — one of the oldest surviving major infrastructure projects in Dallas.

Downtown's eight-story central library — and the unlikely home of one of only about twenty-five surviving 1776 copies of the Declaration of Independence.

The 1922 Petroleum Building topped by a rotating Flying Red Horse — for decades the most recognizable symbol in the Southwest.

The 1.77-acre urban park that transformed an entire downtown block from surface parking into Dallas's most successful public green space.

Dallas's last surviving vaudeville palace, opened in 1921 — the indoor sky of its atmospheric ceiling has witnessed Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, and the final tribute to Deep Ellum's Alex Moore.

The 1943 Art Deco tower that anchored Dallas's financial district — home to the bank that financed much of Texas's oil and cotton empires.

Founded in 1907 on this corner, Herbert Marcus's luxury department store put Dallas on the map for American fashion and transformed retail culture.

The 1968 office tower that pioneered the underground tunnel system connecting downtown Dallas — changing how the city worked through Texas summers.

Forty-nine bronze longhorns crossing a simulated creek — Dallas's most literal civic monument, and a revealing choice about what the city decided to commemorate.

Built in 1907 as headquarters for Praetorian Insurance — Dallas's first steel-frame skyscraper and the tallest building in the Southwest at the time.

The geodesic sphere on a 560-foot stem that has defined the Dallas skyline since 1978.

Philip Johnson's 1976 interfaith sanctuary — the same architect as the JFK Memorial, the same instinct toward quiet enclosure in the middle of urban noise.

Built in 1912 by Adolphus Busch of Anheuser-Busch — the most elaborate building in Dallas at the time and the city's first true luxury hotel.

A 30-foot human eyeball staring out of a downtown lot beside The Joule hotel — Tony Tasset's sculpture 'Eye,' Dallas's most surreal photo op.

The Trinity River bottomlands viewed from Victory Park's western edge — Dallas's most persistent geographic challenge and most ambitious ongoing project.

The 1916 Beaux-Arts terminal that was Dallas's primary gateway for most of the 20th century — now a hotel and the hub of the DART light rail system.