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COURTESY HINES Dallas' pioneering Maple Terrace "high-rise" built in 1925 was a magnet for celebrities and creatives for almost a hundred years. Now it's reborn as a boutique office building and new 22-story residential tower, with charm intact. S tanding on the e i g h t h - f l o o r terrace of Maple Terrace, one can see both the old and the new of Dallas unfolding before them. The original white bell towers of this building built in 1925 are feet away. The beloved Nick & Sam's restaurant sits across the street on Maple Avenue, Uchi and Uchiba are just up the street, and gleaming high- rise towers with million dollar- plus condos loom nearby. "This is the actual Maple Terrace," Corbin Eckel, managing director at Hines, says as we look out over Uptown. Maple Terrace came to life 99 years ago as one of the first luxury hotels and apartments in Dallas. "And, believe it or not, it was considered a high- rise," Eckel says. "They called it a high-rise at seven stories." It was one of the places to be in Dallas, with Elvis Presley, Judy Garland, Liza Minnelli, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Shirley MacLaine, and Dean Martin among the celebrities who called it home at one time or another, enjoying its legendary party pool scene as Top: The Maple Terrace of today brings a boutique office building and a new 22-story high-rise. (Continued) they flitted in and out of Dallas. "It later morphed into kind of an eclectic building with creatives," Eckel says, "for designers and folks that wanted a seasonal residence." Hines hired a historic preservation expert shortly after purchasing the building site to learn more about this unique history. This is one project in a city intently focused on the future where the past is helping to guide things. With Dallas having only a handful of pre- World War II buildings still standing, Houston-based real estate giant Hines elected to preserve the original Maple Terrace building designed by English architect Sir Alfred Bossom and lean into its history. Hines turned the original Maple Terrace into a boutique office building that will be tied to the new 22-story Maple Terrace Residences through an outdoor courtyard, preserving as much of the original building's Art Deco moldings, arches, and distinctive tiled floors as possible. Maple Terrace The By Chris Baldwin Eternal 46