{"id":126192,"date":"2025-08-07T11:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T11:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/126192\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T11:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T11:22:11","slug":"dallas-20m-mount-vernon-is-most-expensive-home-listed-in-texas-last-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/126192\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas\u2019 $20M \u2018Mount Vernon\u2019 is most expensive home listed in Texas last month"},"content":{"rendered":"

A nearly $20 million Dallas estate overlooking White Rock Lake and modeled after President George Washington\u2019s Mount Vernon was the most expensive home<\/a> to hit the market in Texas last month.<\/p>\n

The asking price for the stately, Georgian-style mansion, modeled after Washington\u2019s Virginia estate, is $19.95 million. Allie Beth Allman of Allie Beth Allman & Associates is the listing agent for the property.<\/p>\n

Six of the state\u2019s 10 priciest homes were in the Dallas-Fort Worth area in July, according to a list from the Houston Association of Realtors. The association uses information from local listing services throughout the state, including North Texas Real Estate Information Systems.<\/p>\n

The homes were listed between July 1 and July 31. The list doesn\u2019t include any new construction homes that are not move-in ready.<\/p>\n

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Dallas\u2019 Mount Vernon home was built in 1930 by Thomas Y. Pickett. It wasn\u2019t quite completed until legendary Dallas oil magnate H.L. Hunt purchased the property for $69,000 in 1938.<\/p>\n

The family lived there for the next 60 years.<\/p>\n

Current owner John Amend and family are the second family to live there, but they\u2019ve had the property on and off the market since 2016<\/a>. The family also tried to sell it back in 2011<\/a>, according to previous Dallas Morning News reporting.<\/p>\n

Located at 4009 W. Lawther Drive<\/a>, the property sits on a 10-acre lot. The main home has 10,500 square feet with five bedrooms and 6\u00bd bathrooms.<\/p>\n

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Dallas\u2019 Mount Vernon home was built in 1930 by Thomas Y. Pickett. Legendary Dallas oil magnate H.L. Hunt purchased the property for $69,000 in 1938, and his family lived there for the next 60 years.<\/p>\n

Chitose Suzuki \/ Staff Photographer<\/p>\n

The home has a special meaning for the Amends. They were two East Dallas teenagers when they ended their first date at the gates of the estate in 1967.<\/p>\n

\u201cI said that if I could live anywhere in Dallas, Mount Vernon would be the home,\u201d John told The News in 2011.<\/p>\n

They got the chance to buy it following the death of Hunt\u2019s widow, Ruth Ray Hunt, in 1999.<\/p>\n

The Amend family made extensive renovations to the property in the early 2000s, including the addition of a more than 4,000-square-foot, four-bedroom guest home.<\/p>\n

Their company, the Amend Group, did much of the work on the concrete home and surrounding acreage.<\/p>\n

Among the home\u2019s more notable features is a four-lane bowling alley complete with a 1950s-style Coca-Cola soda fountain. The 16-car garage can double as a formal event space for 300 people.<\/p>\n

The bowling alley was John\u2019s idea. His full-time pro and director of bowling operations, Randy Little, would give lessons to visiting guests like Laura and George W. Bush or Glenn Close.<\/p>\n

You can stare out toward the lake from rocking chairs on the home\u2019s expansive porch. <\/p>\n

Other amenities include lighted tennis courts, a heated pool and putting greens.<\/p>\n

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Dallas’ Mount Vernon has an expansive porch with rocking chairs where one can enjoy a view of the lake.\n<\/p>\n

Chitose Suzuki \/ Staff Photographer<\/p>\n

Other D-FW homes on the list include:<\/p>\n