Harwood Park celebrates the city’s history, both ancient and modern.
, a Dallas native with a long family history in the city: Her great-grandfather, Joe Earl Lawther, was Dallas mayor from 1917 to 1919.The making of the park was as much a work of archaeological discovery as landscape architecture. Among the objects buried beneath the site: heating oil tanks, walls and basements dating to the end of the 19th century, when the area was principally residential.
“It’s a great example of working with what’s there, working with even some of the messiness, which I don’t think Dallas is always very tolerant of,” says Nancy McCoy, a preservation architect who collaborated on the project. “Anytime you can thread together the history of our city, it’s more interesting.”
A larger, wedge-shaped lawn occupies the central space of the park, providing dramatic views of downtown Dallas. Those views, for the moment, are compromised by an unfinished and unsightly garage building that runs along the park’s northern border, along Jackson Street. But that will change, as a shielding allée of chinquapin oaks matures.
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