The John Fitzgerald Kennedy Memorial is a monument to U.S. President John Fitzgerald Kennedy in the West End Historic District of downtown Dallas, Texas (USA) erected in 1970, and designed by noted architect Philip Johnson.DescriptionThe JFK Memorial was the first memorial by famed American architect and Kennedy family friend, Philip Johnson. The monument was approved by Jacqueline Kennedy herself. Johnson called it "a place of quiet refuge, an enclosed place of thought and contemplation separated from the city around, but near the sky and earth." The citizens of Dallas funded its construction entirely.The simple, concrete memorial to President Kennedy dominates a square in downtown Dallas owned by Dallas County, and bordered by Main, Record, Elm and Market Streets, one block east of Dealey Plaza, where Kennedy was assassinated.Philip Johnson's design is a cenotaph, or empty tomb, that symbolizes the freedom of Kennedy’s spirit. The memorial is a square, roofless room, 30 feet (9 m) high and 50 (15 m) by 50 feet (15 m) wide with two narrow openings facing north and south. The walls consist of 72 white precast concrete columns, most of which seem to float with no visible support two feet above the earth. Eight columns extend to the ground, acting as legs that seem to hold up the monument. Each column ends in a light fixture. At night, the lights create the illusion that the structure is supported by the light itself. The corners and “doors” of this roofless room are decorated with rows of concrete circles, or medallions, each identical and perfectly aligned. These decorations introduce the circular shape into the square architecture of the Kennedy Memorial.
The only church in downtown Dallas rooted in African-American traditions of worship, St. Paul is the sole survivor of what was, for over a century, a neighborhood of monumental black churches. The congregation that greets you today is the same community that has worshiped on this very site since its establishment by a visionary body of recently freed slaves in 1873. From its founding in a brush arbor to its current landmark standing as the oldest community presence in what has become the Dallas Arts District, St. Paul has remained committed to the spiritual disciplines of prayer, fasting, tithing, and Bible study. There is no greater testimony to the power of prayer than the fact that, where here God planted a church in 1873, here we remain. Come grow in faith and service with us, and loose the power of our timeless faith in your own life. If you come for Sunday School at 9:30 a.m., you'll never be late for church at 10:45 a.m. Even if you're late for Sunday School, you'll still be on time for church.
Residents should have a voice in the place they live. Owners are The Bascom Group, and management company is Entrada Partners. Both are California based companies. www.thebascomgroup.com & www.entradapartners.com.
The Dallas Scottish Rite Temple is a monumental structure in the Farmers Market District of downtown Dallas, Texas. Constructed in 1913 as an official headquarters for use by the Scottish Rite Masons and other local Masonic lodges, it is a fine example of early 20th century Beaux Arts Classical architecture in Texas. The structure, a Dallas Landmark and Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and is a contributing property in the Harwood Historic District.Photo gallery
These newly completed lofts are just a block away from downtown’s newest park, Main Street Garden, and just steps from the Main Street and Farmers Market Districts where you can find restaurants, bars, retail shopping, and the freshest local produce.
JFK Trolley Tour It's one thing to READ about it... it's a whole other thing to SEE it for yourself! Take the 1 hour JFK Trolley Tour and go back in time to November 22,1963. Travel the Motorcade Route & the time-line of Lee Harvey Oswald in the comfort of our climate controlled Old Time Trolley! Discover facts that you never knew before! Trolley Tour operates 7 days a week! 10:30 ~ 12:00 ~ 1:30 ~ 3:00 Plan to arrive 15 minutes early to purchase tickets. Ticket booth Located at 411 elm st. (parking is $5.00 all day parking) City tour pick up location is located two blocks away at 100 s. houston st. Dallas City Tour (One Trip Around) ALL ABOARD! Get acquainted with the popular sights and local favorites that Dallas has to offer during our fully narrated 70-minute tour aboard an authentic, climate-controlled trolley with brass rails, bells and all! Dallas City Tour (Hop On - Hop Off) Enjoy sightseeing at your own pace on the only fully narrated hop-on hop-off trolley tour in Dallas! With 16 stops and 100 points of interest (including highlights of the JFK Tour), it’s the easiest way to explore the unique culture you’ll only find in Dallas. Plus, ride your 2nd day free! Trolley tour operates 7 days a week! 10:00 ~ 10:30 ~ 11:15 ~ 11:45 ~ 12:30 ~ 1:00 ~ 1:45 ~ 2:15 ~ 3:00 ~ 3:30 Prices for JFK Tour Adults $20.00 Seniors(60 and up) $18.00 Kids(10 and under) $10.00 Prices for City Tour (one trip around) Adults $24.00 Seniors(60 and up) $20.00 Kids(10 and under) $12.00 Prices for City Tour (hop on - hop off) Adults $29.00 Seniors(60 and up) $25.00 Kids(10 and under) $17.00
DallasCityTour.com is a sightseeing tour that shows you the attractions in Dallas,Texas. Get tickets to have fun, relax and enjoy our sightseeing tour around downtown Dallas including an informative JFK conspiracy tour. The Dallas/JFK tour is approximately 80 minutes. Our adventure sightseeing tour includes a 40 minute Dallas attraction tour that includes stops at Victory Plaza, Historic West End, American Airlines Center, Perot Museum, Klyde Warren Park, Arts District, First Baptist Church of Dallas Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, Pioneer Plaza and much more. We then take you back to one of the darkest days in the United States on November 22, 1963 and the events that lead up the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. We travel on Main Street as the motorcade did. We travel to key points in Oak Cliff such as the house Lee Harvey Oswald lived in and the Texas theatre where Oswald was captured. We do make statements regarding conspiracy theories. The JFK tour is 40 minutes long. We keep the tour small and allow a more in depth intimate tour.
The Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance teaches about the past, to learn for today, in order to impact the future. A not-for-profit 501 (c) (3) since 1984, at our inception we were known as the Dallas Memorial Center for Holocaust Studies and were located in the basement of the Jewish Community Center building on Northaven Road in North Dallas. A group of local survivors created the Holocaust Center to preserve the memory of what they had endured. As the center welcomed more visitors, the need to expand became more and more apparent. In 2005, the renamed Dallas Holocaust Museum/Center for Education and Tolerance opened at its transitional location in the historic West End district and we are planning to erect a larger, free-standing facility on the site that have purchased at the north-west corner of Houston and Pacific streets. In the past year, we reached more than 30,000 students and hosted an additional 35,000 walk-in visitors. Tours of the exhibit are self-guided using digital Audio Guides, which are included in the price of admission. The audio guides are in English and Spanish. The exhibit can take from 30 minutes to 2 hours to view. Price of Admission: Adults $10 Seniors (55+) $8 Students (of all ages) $8 Active Military with ID $8 (Free for enlisted from Memorial Day through Labor Day. School Groups of 15+ $4 each Group tours must be scheduled in advance by contacting Adeline Hernandez at 214-741-7500 or by email at [email protected]
The H. Paxton Moore Fine Art Gallery, at El Centro College in downtown Dallas, seeks to showcase local, regional and national artists working in a variety of media as well as host exhibits traveling nationally. Exhibitions will enhance the education and experience of the students, faculty, staff and community at large. Lectures, workshops, and other events will accompany each exhibit to engage the public in the understanding of art.
The new, world-class, adrenaline-rushing, mind-blowing, cooler-than-cool Perot Museum of Nature and Science is now open... right here in Dallas. Our roots date back to 1936, with the opening of the Dallas Museum of Natural History in historic Fair Park, which would later merge with the Science Place and the Dallas Children’s Museum in 2006 to create the Museum of Nature & Science. The Museum of Nature & Science in Fair Park which houses our historical wildlife dioramas and active paleontology lab will remain a part of the Perot Museum, giving visitors the chance to see not only our new Museum in Victory Park but also our historic Museum in Fair Park.
The Perot Museum of Nature and Science is a natural history and science museum located in Dallas, Texas. It consists of two campuses: the primary campus located in Victory Park, and a secondary campus in Fair Park. The Victory Park campus museum was named in honor of Margot and Ross Perot. The current chief executive officer of the museum is Colleen Walker.BackgroundHistory June 6, 1936 – Dallas Museum of Natural History was opened to the public as part of the 1936 Texas Centennial Exhibition. September 20, 1946 – Dallas Health Museum was founded by a group chartered as the Dallas Academy of Medicine. The Dallas Health Museum was renamed as the Dallas Health and Science Museum in 1958. It was later renamed to the Science Place in 1981. 1995 – Dallas Children's Museum was founded. In 2006, museum CEO Nicole Small oversaw the uniting of the Dallas Museum of Natural History and the Science Place and the Dallas Children's Museum at Fair Park. Following the merger, the museum was located in three buildings in Fair Park, featuring an IMAX-style theater, a fully functioning planetarium, an extensive exhibit hall, and its own on-site paleontology lab.On June 1, 2014 the Perot Museum of Nature and Science welcomed a new CEO, Colleen Walker.The museum was relocated on December 1, 2012 to a new facility in Victory Park. The former Science Place Building and Planetarium were closed, with the building for the former Dallas Museum of Natural History converted into a second campus for the Perot Museum.
Craighead Green Gallery represents the finest in contemporary art from nationally and internationally recognized artists. Gallery director, Kenneth Craighead, and partner, Steve Green, opened the gallery in 1992 in the Dallas Arts District. Since that time, the two partners purchased a building and relocated the Gallery to the Design District. Scot Presley joined the Gallery as Assistant Director in 2002. Craighead Green is recognized as one of the finest contemporary art galleries throughout Texas and the Southwest, representing over 40 artists of all mediums. The Gallery focuses on contemporary paintings, photography and sculpture in a myriad of media and styles. Craighead Green represents mid to late career artists while continuing their promotion of emerging artists. The Gallery is a participating member of the Dallas Art Dealers Association and CADD, Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas.
The DMA Junior Associates is a subcategory of DMA membership designed to build patrons' engagement with the DMA collection and mission. Our Museum stewards comprise recent graduates, millennial “art geeks,” ambitious entrepreneurs, up-and-coming designers, far-sighted gallerists, and many others whose love of art becomes common ground for lasting relationships.
CYDONIA is a contemporary art gallery dedicated to supporting careers of emerging artists whose practices have cultural and historical insight, conceptual rigor, or they are an original voice within their generation. CYDONIA programming unites our stable and supporters through co-operative practices that underlie an imperative towards posterity. We value art as a cultural good related to praxis and discourse.
Samuel Lynne Galleries promotes a program of international emerging, mid-career, and blue chip contemporary artists, and is focused on cultivating and nurturing relationships between the gallery and its collectors. The gallery presents a dynamic exhibition schedule, actively engages world renowned curators, and hosts educational panels and artist video screenings. As an extension of the program, the gallery participates in major art fairs and stages off-site projects, exposing its significant collection to a variety of national art markets. Samuel Lynne Galleries' roster of internationally celebrated artists and sculptors includes Hans Van de Bovenkamp, Lea Fisher, James Gill, John Henry, JD Miller, Philip J. Romano, Tyler Shields, and David Yarrow.
PAIRING ARTISTS: SITE131 proposes as its core pursuit to spotlight the concept of pairing — presenting new art from America and abroad side-by-side with new works by Texas artists. By coupling bright, emerging talents who deal with similar concerns, the art audience sees novel connections and finds a unique context for understanding contemporary art in new ways. ENTERS DALLAS ARTS SCENE: SITE131 faces the dramatic Calatrava bridge and dynamic Dallas skyline as an energetic contemporary artspace. A hub for major private collections, Dallas also boasts five Pritzker-awarded buildings, popular Art Fair, and the largest fundraising auction of contemporary art in the U.S. Located near downtown in Dallas’ Design District, developers and visionaries are quickly expanding its design and living opportunities. COMPLEMENTS OTHER DALLAS ART SPACES: SITE131 complements Dallas’ art community which includes an encyclopedic art museum with strong contemporary collection, modern sculpture center, artist-run spaces, large and intimate private spaces, commercial and university galleries, and an artists’ residency program. DUAL VISIONARIES: Building an audience based on artwork epitomizes the vision of arts professional Joan Davidow. As director/curator at Dallas Contemporary and Arlington Museum of Art and McDermott Curatorial intern at Dallas Museum of Art, Davidow built her 30-year arts career in North Texas on the concept that all ages from all walks of life can appreciate and understand art of the 21st century. Her multiple careers in the art world include her role as an arts educator inventing a nationally awarded Art Think program, master’s professor at Southern Methodist University, commentator on KERA public radio, art collector, and philanthropist who donated her art collection to the University of Texas at Dallas. Entrepreneur and art collector Seth Davidow now focuses his skills on investing in and managing commercial properties in transitional core neighborhoods surrounding Uptown and downtown, including the thoughtful restoration of this exceptional mid-century specimen. He envisions SITE131 as the perfect symbiosis, anchoring its design district commercial space with a new contemporary art attraction, but also creating with his mother a venue to engage her passion for unveiling new art and making contemporary art accessible to other collectors.
Centrally located in the heart of the Dallas Arts District, the Crow Collection of Asian Art features contemporary and historical art of Asia.
Joseph Shortell is a worldly known traveler & has lived in London, Paris, Athens, & has had many adventures along the way. His parents were American, but he was born & raised all over Europe. At 24, he moved here to the United States after graduating college at the University of Paris. For over 20 years now, he has been designing custom furniture for people all over the world. Houses, businesses, you name it. Shortell Design is our store located right here in the middle of the Design District of Dallas, & new art is always blossoming amongst us. Come by & say hello, & feel free to customize your own interior space; we'll help you along the way!
This free and open to the public museum offers an introduction to the fascinating world of the samurai while presenting an intimate viewing experience of their spectacular armor and accoutrements. One section within the exhibition highlights helmets from around the world. Admission is free. The traveling exhibitions of The Ann & Gabriel Barbier-Mueller Museum: The Samurai Collection have showcased a variety of works from the family’s collection, which has been built over a span of twenty five years. One hundred and forty pieces from the collection, including suits of armor, helmets, masks, and weaponry are currently on display at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston through August 4, 2013. The pieces were previously on display at the Musée de la civilisation in Québec City and the musée du quai Branly in Paris.
OPEN TUESDAY TO SATURDAY 12 - 5 PM + BY APPOINTMENT. Gallery Member of CADD (Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas) & DADA (Dallas Art Dealers Association) Focus: Carneal Simmons Contemporary Art seeks to advance artistic excellence, innovation, and creativity to enrich the quality of life for individuals and communities at large through the placement and exhibition of contemporary art. Mission: Our gallery and advisory are guided by our commitment to promoting contemporary art, serving clients art needs with the highest level of ethics and professionalism, making contemporary art accessible to the public through exhibitions and educational events, and fostering an environment where arts flourish and enhance the experience within residences and public spaces.
Dallas Contemporary is a non-collecting art museum presenting new and challenging ideas from regional, national and international artists. The institution is committed to engaging the public through exhibitions, lectures, educational programs and events.