East Jefferson Boulevard, Lake Cliff

Lake Cliff, measured from the front door.

Lake Cliff is the oldest corner of Oak Cliff: a 1920s neighborhood around a 1906 park, a National Register historic district since 1994, about two miles from downtown Dallas. The Parker sits on its quiet east edge, where Jefferson Boulevard turns toward the bridge.

The distances

Close to what matters.

Lake Cliff ParkThe historic park and pond the district is named for0.5mi · 10 min walk

DART 8th & Corinth StationRed and Blue lines0.9mi

Methodist Dallas Medical CenterOne of the area’s largest employers~5min drive

Dallas ZooStraight down Ewing Avenue~5min drive

Bishop Arts DistrictShops, restaurants, murals~7min drive

Texas TheatreSame street, 1931 marquee and all~6min down Jefferson

Downtown DallasAcross the Jefferson Boulevard Viaduct~2miles

Dallas Streetcar to Union StationBoards at Zang and Oakenwald, $1 fare0.5mi to the stop

Distances are measured from 800 Comal St. Drive times are typical.

In and around the neighborhood

The neighborhood, in pictures.

The painted Bishop Arts District sign over the brick storefront row — Bishop Arts District

The teal art deco tower and marquee of the Kessler Theater on West Davis Street — The Kessler Theater

The Let's Fiesta mural and the sundial sculpture at a corner plaza off Bishop Avenue — The murals

Pumpkins stacked on the front steps of a plant shop porch in Oak Cliff — The porches

Sidewalk tables outside the shops on North Bishop Avenue — North Bishop Avenue

The map

All of it, drawn to scale.

A drawn map: The Parker on East Jefferson Boulevard at Ewing Avenue, half a mile from Lake Cliff Park, across the Jefferson Boulevard Viaduct and the Trinity River from downtown Dallas, seven minutes from the Bishop Arts District — Map data from OpenStreetMap contributors. Drawn to scale.

Why this street

A century on Jefferson Boulevard.

Jefferson Boulevard has been Oak Cliff’s commercial heart for a century. The storefronts went up in the 1920s and 30s, the Texas Theatre lit its marquee in 1931, and today the boulevard runs as one of Dallas’s great everyday streets: barbershops, quinceañera shops, taquerias, and the theater still showing films. The Bishop Arts District anchors its west end, about seven minutes away.

The Parker’s stretch of East Jefferson is the quiet end: residential blocks, Lake Cliff Park down the street, and the viaduct carrying you into downtown in minutes.

Downtown is part of daily life here. The Dallas streetcar boards half a mile away and runs to Union Station for a dollar, and DART’s Red and Blue lines stop at 8th & Corinth Station, under a mile from the front door. The top-floor resident lounge looks out on the downtown Dallas skyline.

The Parker is part of Bishop Ridge, a district of 21 Savoy communities in the Lake Cliff area. New homes on an existing street.