Dallas Audio Walking Tour

Highlights

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  Reunion Tower

  Look up at the glowing sphere locals call 'The Ball,' 561 feet above the Reunion district of downtown Dallas. Locally known as 'The Ball,' it was designed by Welton Becket & Associates and completed on February 2, 1978 alongside the Hyatt Regency Dallas at Reunion as part of an urban redevelopment project that also renovated historic Union Station.

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  Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge

  Santiago Calatrava designed the cable-stayed Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge in front of you, spanning the Trinity River between downtown and West Dallas. It is named for Margaret Hunt Hill, an heiress and philanthropist, and was designed by Santiago Calatrava as part of the Trinity River Project.

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  Bank of America Plaza

  Bank of America Plaza climbs 72 stories and 921 feet above you, the tallest skyscraper in the city and the 3rd tallest in Texas. It is the tallest skyscraper in the city, the 3rd tallest in Texas and the 45th tallest in the United States.

• Perot Museum of Nature and Science

  Margot and Ross Perot lend their name to the Perot Museum of Nature and Science, the natural history and science museum in front of you in Victory Park. Feel the history beneath your feet: this institution traces its roots back to June 6, 1936, when the Dallas Museum of Natural History opened as part of the Texas Centennial Exposition.

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  Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts

  Back in 1892 Dallas, Texas established its first high school for African-American pupils, and that school, now Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, is the building in front of you. Here you are at Dallas Independent School District's arts magnet, the school that enrolls students in grades 9 through 12 and is often called simply 'Arts Magnet.' Walk this block and you feel the long sweep of history: Dallas established its first high school for African-American pupils in 1892; by 1911 that school was enlarged and named the Dallas Colored High School.

All 32 stops

• Reunion Tower (Reunion district)

  Look up at the glowing sphere locals call 'The Ball,' 561 feet above the Reunion district of downtown Dallas.

• Union Station (Reunion)

  Notice the name on this Houston Street hub: EBJ Union Station, honoring Eddie Bernice Johnson, in the Reunion district of Downtown Dallas.

• Hyatt Regency Dallas (Reunion)

  Picture the Y-shaped Regency folding around its atrium, 28 stories linking Union Station to Reunion Tower in the Reunion district.

• Dallas World Aquarium (West End Historic District)

  Inside a gutted 1924 warehouse in the West End Historic District, the Dallas World Aquarium has been open since October 1992.

• West End Historic District (West End Historic District)

  The West End Historic District spreads across 67.5 acres of northwest downtown Dallas, bounded roughly north of Commerce, east of I-35E, west of Lamar and…

• Pioneer Plaza (Convention Center District)

  Picture Trammell Crow's vision for an iconic Western sculpture rising over this park in the Convention Center District.

• Pioneer Park Cemetery (Convention Center District)

  Pioneer Park Cemetery gathers four old graveyards into one plot.

• Dallas Statler Hilton (Farmers Market District)

  Picture opening day in 1956 at 1914 Commerce Street, when guests called this the first modern American hotel.

• Old Dallas Central Library (Farmers Market District)

  At 1954 Commerce Street you face George Dahl's former Dallas Public Library, the city's modern replacement for its Carnegie building.

• Majestic Theatre (City Center District)

  Elm Street's Theater Row survives in just one building now: the Majestic Theatre, here in the City Center District of Downtown Dallas.

• Magnolia Hotel (Main Street District)

  Look up for the neon Pegasus crowning this 29-story tower, once headquarters for the Magnolia Petroleum Company.

• Adolphus Hotel (Main Street District)

  Adolphus Busch raised the hotel in front of you, the Adolphus, on the site of Dallas's old City Hall.

• Neiman Marcus Building (Main Street District)

  Red brick and white stone mark the Neiman Marcus Building at the corner of Main and Ervay.

• Wilson Building (Main Street district)

  The Wilson Building rose eight stories in 1904, the tallest structure in Dallas until 1909.

• Titche-Goettinger Building (Downtown Dallas)

  Edward Titche and Max Goettinger gave their name to the Titche–Goettinger Building, whose broad department store façade runs along St. Paul Street between Main and…

• Mercantile National Bank Building (Main Street district)

  Known downtown as The Merc, the Mercantile National Bank Building at 1800 Main Street in Dallas rises 31 stories to a four-sided clock and weather…

• Thanks-Giving Square (Thanksgiving Commercial Center)

  Thanks-Giving Square opens a quiet garden and chapel in the middle of downtown Dallas, dedicated in 1976.

• Santander Tower (downtown Dallas)

  Santander Tower rises 50 stories at 1601 Elm Street, the glass-and-steel skyscraper once called Thanksgiving Tower.

• Bank of America Plaza (Main Street District)

  Bank of America Plaza climbs 72 stories and 921 feet above you, the tallest skyscraper in the city and the 3rd tallest in Texas.

• Fountain Place (Downtown Dallas)

  Dancing fountains, 172 of them, fill the plaza at the base of Fountain Place, the 60-story tower above you.

• Renaissance Tower (downtown Dallas)

  Renaissance Tower rises 56 stories at 1201 Elm Street, the second-tallest tower in Dallas.

• Klyde Warren Park (Downtown Dallas)

  Klyde Warren Park has bridged the Woodall Rodgers Freeway since 2012, 5.4 acres of green laid over three blocks of traffic.

• Dallas Museum of Art (Arts District)

  Between St. Paul and Harwood, along the Woodall Rodgers Freeway, the Dallas Museum of Art holds more than 24,000 objects.

• Nasher Sculpture Center (Dallas Arts District)

  Renzo Piano designed the Nasher Sculpture Center in front of you to house Patsy and Raymond Nasher's modern and contemporary sculpture.

• Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center (Arts District)

  Music has a home here: the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center, in the Arts District of downtown Dallas.

• Trammell & Margaret Crow Collection of Asian Art (Dallas Arts District)

  Here in the Dallas Arts District you face the Crow Museum of Asian Art.

• Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House (Arts District)

  Opera finds a 21st-century home in the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House.

• Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre (Arts District)

  Twelve stacked stories of theatre rise in front of you at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre, dedicated October 12, 2009.

• Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (Arts District)

  Back in 1892 Dallas, Texas established its first high school for African-American pupils, and that school, now Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing…

• Perot Museum of Nature and Science (Victory Park)

  Margot and Ross Perot lend their name to the Perot Museum of Nature and Science, the natural history and science museum in front of you…

• Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge (West Dallas)

  Santiago Calatrava designed the cable-stayed Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge in front of you, spanning the Trinity River between downtown and West Dallas.

• Ronald Kirk Bridge (Downtown Dallas)

  Walkers and joggers now cross the Trinity River on the Ronald Kirk Bridge, the 1933 Lamar-McKinney Viaduct reborn.

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