Oak Lawn, Dallas
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}}Template:Main other{{#ifexpr:{{#invoke:ParameterCount|main|mapframe|image_map|image_map1|pushpin_map}} >2 |Template:Main other}} Oak Lawn is a neighborhood in Dallas, Texas (United States), defined in Dallas City Ordinance 21859 as Planned Development District No. 193, the Oak Lawn Special Purpose District.<ref>Planned Development District No. 193, the Oak Lawn Special Purpose District Template:Webarchive</ref> The unofficial boundaries are Turtle Creek Boulevard, Central Expressway, the City of Highland Park, Inwood Road, and Harry Hines Boulevard. It is over Template:Convert in area.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>Template:Citation needed Officially it is bounded by the City of Highland Park, the North Central Expressway, Stemmons Freeway, Woodall Rodgers Freeway, and other roads. The district is within the boundary defined by the City of Dallas law, excluding any existing planned development districts within.<ref>"Oak Lawn Special Purpose District Template:Webarchive." City of Dallas. p. 1. Retrieved on November 19, 2011. "PD 193 is established on property generally bounded by Woodall Rodgers Freeway, North Central Expressway, the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas Railroad, the city limits of the City of Highland Park, Bordeaux Avenue, Inwood Road, Denton Drive Cut-off, Maple Avenue, Cedar Springs Branch Creek, Harry Hines Boulevard, Oak Lawn Avenue, and Stemmons Freeway but excluding existing PD's within those boundaries. The size of PD 193 is approximately 2619.92 acres."</ref>
About
Oak Lawn is one of the wealthier areas of metropolitan Dallas, with the population consisting mainly of urban professionals. The area is peppered with upscale townhouses, condos, apartments, and duplexes. Along the Uptown portion on McKinney Avenue and along Turtle Creek Boulevard, there are many new high-rise condominiums and apartments. It is also a very diverse neighborhood with well established areas of older, single family homes.
For most of the 20th century the southern portion of the neighborhood near the intersection of Cedar Springs Road and Harry Hines Blvd was known as "Little Mexico". St. Anne's Catholic school served as the center for the community. With the redevelopment of the neighborhood beginning in the 1980s Little Mexico vanished. Only a few structures of this original community remain for most have been replaced by high rise office buildings, luxury hotels, and condominiums. As of 2010, St Ann's Catholic School, which had closed, is now an upscale restaurant.
Oak Lawn became a magnet for the counterculture movement in the late 1960s due to its inexpensive apartments and its proximity to Turtle Creek Park (formerly known as Lee Park and Oak Lawn Park). The Station 4 nightclub can be found on Cedar Springs Road.
Geography
Neighborhoods
Government and infrastructure
Template:Expand section The United States Postal Service operates the Oak Lawn Post Office at 2825 Oak Lawn Avenue; ZIP Code: 75219.<ref>"Post Office Location - OAK LAWN Template:Webarchive." United States Postal Service. Retrieved on December 4, 2008.</ref>
The Federal Bureau of Prisons South Central Region Office was previously in Oak Lawn.<ref>"South Central Region Office." Federal Bureau of Prisons. Retrieved on January 1, 2010. "SOUTH CENTRAL REGIONAL OFFICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS 4211 CEDAR SPRINGS RD DALLAS, TX 75219"</ref> It has since moved to the U.S. Armed Forces Reserve Complex in Grand Prairie, Texas.<ref>"RO South Central." Federal Bureau of Prisons. Retrieved on June 1, 2015. "US ARMED FORCES RESERVE CMPL GRAND PRAIRIE, TX 75051"</ref>
Diplomatic missions
The Consulate-General of the United Kingdom in Dallas was located in Suite 940 at 2911 Turtle Creek Boulevard.<ref>Uden, Tim. "BUG Britain & Ireland: The Backpackers' Ultimate Guide." BUG Backpackers Guide. 2005. 16.</ref><ref>"British Consulate, Dallas, Texas." Britain in USA. Retrieved on January 30, 2009.</ref>
In April 2005 the British government announced that it was closing the Dallas consulate in the summer of 2005; its territory was transferred to the consulate-general in Houston. It was one of 19 British diplomatic missions shut down around that time period.<ref name="Allenclose">Allen, Margaret. "Dallas' British Consulate to close in money-saving move." Dallas Business Journal. Friday April 1, 2005. Retrieved on May 9, 2009.</ref> The Foreign and Commonwealth Office of the United Kingdom said that the consulates and embassies closed as a way to decrease costs.<ref name="Allenclose"/><ref>"Britain to close to High Commission in Nassau Template:Webarchive." Caribbean Net News. Friday December 17, 2004. Retrieved on January 9, 2009.</ref>
The Consulate-General of Mexico in Dallas is also located in Oak Lawn. Alfredo Corchado of The Dallas Morning News said that as of 2009, in terms of activity and size of the area Mexican population, the Dallas consulate is considered to be the third most important Mexican consulate after Los Angeles and Chicago.<ref name="Corchadoremove">Corchado, Alfredo. "Mexico removing Dallas consul general." The Dallas Morning News. Saturday August 15, 2009. Retrieved on August 27, 2009.</ref>
The consulate moved from 8855 North Stemmons Freeway to 1210 River Bend Drive in January 2009.<ref>Resendiz, Julian. "For consulate, it's a big step Mexican officials say move to new building will go smoothly Template:Webarchive." The Dallas Morning News. June 18, 2009. Retrieved on August 28, 2009.</ref>
Education
Public schools
The public schools in Oak Lawn are part of the Dallas Independent School District and are zonedTemplate:Dead link among the following:
- Ben Milam Elementary School
- Esperanza "Hope" Medrano Elementary School
- Maple Lawn Elementary School
- North Dallas High School
- Sam Houston Elementary School (closed June 2025)
- T. J. Rusk Middle School
The William B. Travis Academy/Vanguard for the Academically Talented and Gifted is located near McKinney Avenue and Oak Grove Avenue.
In 2014-2015 its student body was 95% low income; despite that it exceeded its "performance targets". Due to gentrification, Sam Houston's enrollment declined to 201 students in the 2015-2016 school year while it had 302 students in the 2011-2012 school year.<ref>Nicholson, Eric. "Will Gentrification Destroy Dallas' Public Schools, or Will It Save Them?" Dallas Observer. Monday November 2, 2015. Retrieved on June 24, 2016.</ref>
Irma Lerma Rangel Young Women's Leadership School was previously in Oak Lawn.<ref>Swartz, Mimi. "Going Public" ( Template:Webarchive). Texas Monthly. February 2005. Retrieved on December 26, 2015.</ref>
Private schools
- Holy Trinity Catholic School, age 3 through 8th grade.
- Dallas Christian Academy, prekindergarten through 12th grade.
The Walt Whitman Community School (WWCS), an LGBT-oriented private school, was established in 1997 in Oak Lawn.<ref name=Fowlerp1>Fowler, Jimmy. "School's out." Dallas Observer. November 13, 1997. p. 1 (Template:Webarchive). Retrieved on September 22, 2014.</ref> It closed in 2004.
Public Libraries
The Oak Lawn Branch of the Dallas Public Library serves the Oak Lawn area. In addition to its regular library holdings, it has the only circulating, non-reference collection of LGBT materials in the US.<ref>"Library Pride aims to boost LGBT collection" http://www.dallasvoice.com/library-pride-aims-boost-lgbt-collection-10130015.html Template:Webarchive</ref>
Infrastructure
Transportation
File:US 75.svg Central Expressway (US 75) flanks the community on the east. File:Texas Spur 366.svg Spur 366, known locally as Woodall Rodgers Freeway, runs along the southern border of the community. The Lomac and Uptown portions of Oak Lawn are served by the free M-Line Trolley, provided by the McKinney Avenue Transit Authority. The Template:DART B and Template:DART R light-rail lines stop at Cityplace Station, right outside Oak Lawn. Just outside Oak Lawn to the southwest is Victory Station in Victory Park, which is served by the Template:DART TRE, both red and blue lines during special events, and regularly by the Green and Orange light rail lines. The two lines continue to the northwest, stopping at Market Center Station and Southwestern Medical District/Parkland Station within Oak Lawn.
Culture
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Oak Lawn is considered to be the epicenter of Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex's gay and lesbian culture. Cedar Springs Road, between Oak Lawn Avenue and Wycliff Avenue, has numerous businesses, retail establishments, restaurants and night clubs catering to the LGBTQ community. The area has some of Dallas' most renowned gay bars and nightclubs, most of which are located along, or close to, Cedar Springs Road. Oak Lawn is contiguous with the Dallas Design District and less than two miles away from Downtown Dallas.
The area also hosts some of the larger city festivals including the annual Halloween street festival, Dallas' Gay Pride parade, and Easter in the Park at Oak Lawn Park (formerly Robert E. Lee Park).
In 2014, Dallas's Oak Lawn was voted the number one gayborhood by Out Traveler.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In October 2018, Dallas made history when it became the first Texas city to get state recognition for its Oak Lawn LGBT neighborhood.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
There is a large concentration of Hispanic owned businesses, restaurants, grocery stores, nightclubs, and retail establishments on the Maple Avenue corridor between the Inwood Road and the North Dallas Tollway.
Architecture
Oak Lawn is one of the older neighborhoods in Dallas. Continuous redevelopment of the neighborhood has created a mixture of architectural styles spanning much of the 20th century to the present day.
Measuring by structural height, the tallest buildings in or adjacent to Oak Lawn are as follows:<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
- Cityplace Center, Template:Convert (42 floors)
- W Dallas Victory Hotel and Residences, Template:Convert (32 floors)
- Azure, Template:Convert (31 floors)
- 1900 McKinney (26 floors)
- Mayfair at Turtle Creek, Template:Convert (24 floors)
- 2500 McKinney, Template:Convert (25 floors)
- Ritz-Carlton, Dallas, Template:Convert (21 floors)
- 17 Seventeen McKinney (22 floors)
- Residences on McKinney, Template:Convert (22 floors)
- La Tour Condominiums (22 floors)
- McKinney Avenue Lofts (21 floors)
- The Ashton (20 floors)
- The Mondrian (20 floors)
- The Vendome, Template:Convert (20 floors)
See also
References
- Emporis.com., World / North America / U.S.A. / Dallas TX Template:Usurped.
External links
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