A Century of Houses, No Two Systems Alike

The town was planned before most of Dallas existed, and its houses have been built, rebuilt, and renovated across every decade since, which means the plumbing behind any given wall could be original iron, mid-century copper, a nineties repipe, or all three spliced together wing by wing.

Even the water arrives with its own story: the supply comes from the Park Cities’ own district, drawn from Grapevine Lake as the sole source, and the Town takes leaks seriously enough that its own water conservation plan documents leak detection equipment the Town purchased and three workdays every month spent inspecting its distribution system. A town that runs monthly leak detection on its own mains understands what homeowners here learn eventually: in housing this varied and this valuable, finding water loss early is not an indulgence. It is maintenance.