WSJ Feature

The view from the formal living room to the family room in this architect-designed estate home at 4400 Belfort Place in Highland Park, Dallas, Texas.
The formal living room with its ornate octagonal star pattern ceiling looks into the loggia that wraps around the rear of the home, and looks into the family room with its massive stained wood ceiling, and then has an extended view into the kitchen and the breakfast room.
Kitchen island, backsplash and designer stove in this architecturally significant kitchen at 4400 Belfort Place in Highland Park, Dallas, Texas.
This well-composed kitchen of patterns, colors and shapes includes artisan hand-crafted tile, elaborate perforated cabinet doors, Brazilian quartzite countertops, and a high gloss black and polished brass La Cornue range and oven.
The grand hall extends from the library through other rooms to the dining room at the other end of this architect-designed estate home at 4400 Belfort Place, Highland Park, Dallas, Texas.
The Reve Bleu marble tile connects the white oak dark-stained floors of the library to the white oak dark-stained floors of the dining room at the other end of this grand hall. The warm, rich woods of the library and wood-beam hall ceilings and stained glass windows of the hall at the library ascend in elegance through the home to the grand staircase and to the lacquered wall dining room at the other end of this magnificent hall.
View through the porte-cochere at the Spanish Revival style architect-designed estate home at 4400 Belfort Place, Highland Park, Dallas, Texas.
From the side door, the arched porte-cochere at 4400 Belfort Place frames a lovely tree-canopied view of the Highland Park home across the street.
The primary bathroom marble mosaic floor tiles are reflected in the tub of this architect-designed home at 4400 Belfort Place in Highland Park, Dallas, Texas.
Primary bathroom bath tub with reflection of marble mosaic tiles

There are almost two million homes in MLS and the Wall Street Journal selected 4400 Belfort Place to feature in its Mansion Section. Why did the WSJ editors select this home? First, the editors, art editors and journalists at the Wall Street Journal are top in their field and have a great eye for homes, design and a great ear for a good story. They also have insight about homes and how they relate to a community and to the real estate market. The home at 4400 Belfort Place, I think, resonated with them for many reasons. The developer, Blair Pogue, broke new ground with this Spanish Revival style home. While some homeowners might spend $50 million to $100 million on a home for themselves, Blair Pogue had a vision to take a bespoke approach to build a home that would contribute to the architectural landscape of Dallas and allow a buyer to purchase a new architecturally significant home and not have to wait four or five years to build their own home. To do this he selected architect Larry Boerder, landscape architect Harold Leidner and interior designer Margaret Chambers. In addition, Highland Park is a draw and one of the nicest townships in the country. There are other neighborhoods across the country that are as expensive as Highland Park, but how many of those are only a couple of miles from a major downtown and as lovely as this safe and bucolic neighborhood?

The Spanish Revival style selected by Blair Pogue for this new home evokes the best of Highland Park. One hundred years ago, it was a style that attracted the avant-garde and affluent and it still does today. It is programmatically more modern than other traditional styles and even some modern homes. The Spanish Revival style is sympathetic to our Texas environment and, while 100 years ago this style was relatively rare, its appeal remains. Blair Pogue is to be commended for developing a home that attracts not only buyers but prestigious publications like the Wall Street Journal to feature a Highland Park home.

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