Maple Avenue

Maple Avenue's mansions stood beside another Dallas. The Handbook of Texas gives Maple as the eastern edge of Little Mexico, a neighborhood that began as a Jewish immigrant settlement and became mostly Mexican after 1910, when Jim Crow laws kept Mexican residents out of most of the city. A Dallas history blog, citing Ted Dealey's 1966 memoir Diaper Days of Dallas, says the family of G. B. Dealey of the Dallas Morning News lived on the avenue, whose grand houses peaked in the 1900s.

What the plaque says

Maple Avenue One of twelve subdivisions of the North Dallas Improvement Company. Maple Avenue was developed after a streetcar line was extended to this area north of the growing city of Dallas in 1884. Many leading citizens built elegant Victorian mansions along this avenue. Among these were the manager of the "Dallas Morning News." The land agent for the Texas and Pacific Railroad, the owner of Briggs-Weaver Machinery, and two Dallas mayors. The house on this site, built in 1907 by pioneer realtor John P. Murphy, remained in his family for nearly 50 years. (1994)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Dallas Museum of Art — 0.6 mi
  A city art museum that began as the Dallas Art Association in 1903, grew up in Fair Park, and has stood in the Arts District since 1984 under a forty-foot barrel vault.
• The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza — 1.1 mi
  A plow-company warehouse of 1903, identified by the Warren Commission as the building Oswald fired from, now a museum on its sixth and seventh floors above Dealey Plaza.
• Dallas Heritage Village at Old City Park — 1.8 mi
  Dallas's first city park, laid out around Browder's Spring in 1876, now a museum of historic buildings moved here from across North Texas, among them Millermore, a cotton planter's mansion.
• African American Museum, Dallas — 2.6 mi
  Founded in 1974 at Bishop College, a free Fair Park museum holding the Sepia photograph archive, African art and A. Maceo Smith's papers, and the story of the Hall of Negro Life.

More markers nearby

• Thomas L. Bradford — 0.2 mi
• The McNab Grocery — 0.2 mi
• Pike Park — 0.3 mi
• Greenwood Cemetery — 0.4 mi