Top o' Hill Terrace was one the biggest gambling halls, bordellos, and speakeasies in the Southwest.

The most notorious brothel in Denison was Brown Front, named so because it, well, had an unpainted wooden front that was none too pretty.

The courthouse once left an imposing impression on those plying their trades in old Hell's Half Acre, Fort Worth's red light district.

Established by freed African Americans in 1865, St. Paul Bottom bordered Twelve Mile Bayou in the northwest section of downtown Shreveport.

Dallas boasted several vice districts: Boggy Bayou, Deep Ellum, the Reservation, West Dallas, and Commerce Street.

Most of the buildings that lie inside Fair Park in Dallas today are landmarks built purposefully for the 1936 Centennial Exposition.

Architecture was coded and uniform to be efficient in their builds, even the places that we now view as one-of-a-kind quaintness.

Much of the brick used in building Bonham (Fannin County, Texas) was fired in the kilns owned by Jerry Chinner, a Freeman.

The MKT made Denison a very important railroad city after the Civil War.

The old Boston Jail in New Boston, not to be confused with the original (Texas) Boston.

Shreveport was prominently featured in Green Books

Bonnie Parker's funeral director lived and worked above the funeral home. He had to move into the Adolphus Hotel, however. Why?

Roosevelt has disproportionately more cars than it does humans, but the cars are what keep the humans in Roosevelt.

Several years ago, I drove the entire Belt Line Road that circles around Dallas County, and I did it again this past month.

The former MKT freight depot behind the School Book Depository in downtown Dallas.

The Globe Building in Electra, Texas is now lost.

To prevent shifty salesmen, the city of Shreveport erected an orderly Farmers Market.

Draughon's Business Colleges private offered a "no-frills education without sports teams, commencement, and other distractions."

I'm an Urban Planning Nerd with a plea to make your town, and my town, more beautiful.