National Register Listing

Lemmon, Mark and Maybelle, House

3211 Mockingbird Ln., Highland Park, TX

The Mark and Maybelle Lemmon house located at 3211 Mockingbird Lane, Highland Park, embodies Lemmon's architectural philosophy of historicist architecture executed for modern times. The house exemplifies Mark Lemmon's abilities as a historicist architect with it's restrained, graceful, and dignified interpretation of the Norman cottages he saw while in France during World War I. Lemmon was, as noted in a recent book on his career, "Dallas' preeminent historicist architect" (Crafting Traditions: The Architecture of Mark Lemmon, p.21). The house, sited on lots that were combined to measure 120' across Mockingbird and 150' deep, in Highland Park directly across from Southern Methodist University, was constructed in 1924 for his family. The house is eligible under Criterion C, significance at a local level in the area of architecture as an early example of Mark Lemmon's historicist style architecture in a residential form. It is an interesting example and interpretation of the Norman cottage style that was often used as a residential style in the northeast but rarely in Dallas. It is also eligible under Criterion B at the state level of significance for its association with Mark Lemmon, an important historicist architect in Dallas and Texas. Lemmon designed the house for his family and lived there until his death. His wife, Maybelle Lemmon, continued to live in the house until two years before her death. The house has had only minor alterations; most of these were done during the time Mark Lemmon and his family lived in the house and were to accommodate his growing family.

Local significance of the building:
Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 2006.