Bryan-Peak Commercial Historic District
4214--4311 Bryan Ave. and 1325--1408 N. Peak, Dallas, TXThe Bryan-Peak Commercial Historic District is a noteworthy cluster of early 20thcentury commercial buildings that formed a commercial node at the intersection of two major crosstown streetcar lines in East Dallas and is associated with the historic context of The Development of East and South Dallas: 1872-1945. Such nodes typically developed along streetcar lines and at transfer points as Dallas' increasing population pressed into the surrounding suburbs but most have either been replaced or the buildings so altered that little is left of the original historic fabric. The Bryan-Peak Commercial Historic District is a good and perhaps the only surviving example of a commercial node in Dallas that retains its original commercial buildings on each of its four corners. In addition, the extant buildings retain their original architectural fabric and integrity to a remarkable degree. As a result, the Bryan-Peak Commercial Historic District is a rare and valuable collection of early 20thcentury commercial buildings and a reminder of the early commercial patterns that helped shape Dallas' suburban development. The Bryan-Peak Commercial Historic District is nominated to the National Register under Criterion A for its historical significance as one of the only remaining intact examples of commercial nodes created as a result of streetcar suburbanization.
It is also nominated under Criterion C for its outstanding collection of early 20th-century commercial architecture. The district is East Dallas' most intact neighborhood commercial node from the 1912-1930 period, and includes modest, but relatively unaltered examples of vernacular and eclectic 1-part and 2-part commercial-block building types.
Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
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