Belo Mansion

The Belo Mansion was built around 1890 by Colonel A. H. Belo, founder of the Dallas Morning News. One of the most prestigious addresses in Dallas in the late 1800s, Ross Avenue was home to the city’s most successful bankers, manufacturers, merchants and lawyers. Stylistically different from the other High Victorian homes on the street, the Belo Mansion was a replica of an earlier Classical Revival family home in Salem, North Carolina. In 1962, the Belo Mansion was leased to funeral home operators George Loudermilk and Will Sparkman and gained notoriety when the bullet-riddled body of Clyde Barrow (of the infamous Bonnie and Clyde) was presented for public viewing in the front parlor. Purchased from the family in 1978 and restored and expanded, it is now home to the Dallas Bar Association.

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