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1956. "Hayes residence, Kessler Lake Drive, Dallas. Driveway to front door. Architects: Prinz & Brooks." Another look at Chevrolet dealer Earl Hayes' rambling ranch, with a Lincoln Premiere decorating the drive. Photo by Maynard L. Parker for House Beautiful. Source: Huntington Library. View full size.
The passengers in the Lincoln will ride in comfort during the broiling Texas summers thanks to the trunk-mounted factory air-conditioning system indicated by the Plexiglass distribution tubes rising from the rear shelf and the fresh air-intakes on the quarter panels, the third year availability for Lincoln. And the bottom color just has to be a lovely pastel, probably aqua or geranium.
At this time in Dallas, a new industry was being born, the manufacturing of after-market air-conditioning systems for non-equipped cars by such companies as Novi, ARA and Frigikar.
Complete with its own warehouse.
Looks more like my old elementary school from that same era than it does a modernist house.
It's better in color, but the house still looks more like a Medical Office building than a home.
Ah ha -- they're all at the back. So not as irredeemably brutal as it appears from the curb then. Image from here.
In defense of Mr. Hayes, that's a '56 Corvette tucked into the garage.
I have to say this place doesn't look as spiffy on the outside as it does inside.
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