Downtown Dallas Historic Core

Downtown Dallas is the story of a city that kept betting on itself. From Neiman Marcus's 1907 gamble that Dallas could support luxury retail to the Adolphus Hotel's Flemish Baroque grandeur, from the Majestic Theatre's vaudeville palace to the Praetorian Building's early skyscraper ambition — the historic commercial core holds a century of civic aspiration. The Flying Red Pegasus still rotates above Commerce Street. Union Station still anchors the south. And between them, the Mercantile Bank Building, Fountain Place, and a dozen other landmarks tell the story of a city that was always in a hurry to become something more.