If Ebby Halliday were still here, she’d insist on handling the sale. But the grande dame of Dallas real estate died in 2015 at the age of 104. Now her...
But the grande dame of Dallas real estate died in 2015 at the age of 104.The 3,700-square-foot house on Preston Road just north of Northwest Highway was built in 1967 and most recently was owned by the Ebby Halliday Foundation, a charitable organization set up after Halliday’s death.Gabriel and Ann Barbier-Mueller just acquired the house, which is south of their property.The Halliday house was last valued for taxes at just under $1 million.
The house sits on more than a half acre next door to the landmark Ebby Halliday “little white house” at the northwest corner of Preston and Northwest Highway. The colonial-style cottage dates to the 1920s and has been an office for Ebby Halliday Realtors since the 1960s. Originally a field office for developers turning farmland north of Dallas into neighborhoods, the building was also a town hall in the early 1940s. Halliday bought the “little white house” in 1964 for about $100,000.Gabriel Barbier-Mueller, whose family just bought the Halliday house on Preston, is one of Dallas’ best-known commercial real estate developers.
His Harwood International is developing the 19-block Harwood District, a high-rise mixed-use project just north of downtown Dallas. A 1970s aerial photo shows Ebby Halliday's house behind the landmark real estate office on Northwest HIghway.