The F.A. Brown Farmstead

Long before Greenway Terrace and Bluffview had names, this stretch of Dallas was farmland — deeded to Calvin Cole through a Peters Colony headright in 1854. The farmhouse that still stands at 4611 Kelton Drive was built around 1880 by William and Ellen Stewart. In 1885, Francis Asbury Brown bought the house and its 200 surrounding acres, and the farm stayed in the Brown family for a full century.

Today it's believed to be the oldest unaltered farmhouse still standing on its original site in Dallas — a two-story, five-bay wood structure that's uncharacteristically large and detailed for a North Texas farmhouse of its era. Inside: seven fireplaces, fourteen-foot ceilings with twelve-foot windows, and original wood flooring. Outside: a breezy front porch that's watched the city grow up around it.

The oldest unaltered farmhouse on its original site in the City of Dallas.

The 200 acres are long gone, sold off for development over the decades, but the house itself never moved — it sits today on 0.46 acres, protected as both a City of Dallas Landmark and a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark. That status protects it from demolition and from unsympathetic alteration, which is a big part of why it's still here to sell.

Michelle is honored to represent this one. Reach out for full listing details or to schedule a private tour — it isn't often that a piece of Dallas's farming history comes up for sale. For the longer story of the house and the family, read Brownwood: A Century on Lovers Lane.