Is This the End for 807 Elm Street? - Dallas News - Unfair Park

That's 807 Elm Street at right, captured last month in a photo taken by our old pal Justin Terveen. Built in 1925, the building occupies 20,025 square feet in a parking lot between N. Austin and N. Lamar Streets facing El Centro. It was, once, among the assemblage of buildings known as the Awalt Buildings, so named for the Awalt Furniture Company. But that was years ago.

807 Elm has been vacant for more than 45 years. Says the Dallas Central Appraisal District, it's in "poor" shape. That's being kind. As Preservation Dallas wrote in 2005, upon including the building -- and its sibling, 804 Pacific Avenue -- on its most-endangered list:

The two buildings complete a set of historic buildings in the West End associated with the Awalt Furniture Company. The oldest building in the set is now rehabilitated, but these two buildings await rehabilitation while a fourth is already demolished. The Dallas Landmark Commission invoked the city's demolition by neglect provision this past spring to encourage their stabilization. Although the buildings are not under immediate threat of demolition, the properties should be rehabilitated and made a stronger part of the central business district and until that occurs one or both may be recommended for demolition.

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