Oak Lawn lies less than two miles from downtown Dallas and is contiguous with the Design District. Its boundaries are generally given as Turtle Creek Boulevard, Central Expressway, the City of Highland Park, Inwood Road and Harry Hines Boulevard. Turtle Creek itself is a tributary of the Trinity River, running southwest through North Dallas and Highland Park before re-entering Dallas through Oak Lawn; the Turtle Creek neighborhood follows the creek and Turtle Creek Boulevard within the wider Oak Lawn district.
For most of the twentieth century the southern part of Oak Lawn was known as Little Mexico, centered on St. Anne’s Catholic School. Redevelopment from the 1980s onward left only a few of its structures standing. The area drew the counterculture movement in the late 1960s. Oak Lawn is considered the center of gay and lesbian life in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, with Cedar Springs Road between Oak Lawn and Wycliff avenues holding many of its businesses, restaurants and venues; in October 2018 Dallas became the first Texas city to receive state recognition for the neighborhood. The Oak Lawn Branch Library holds a circulating collection of LGBT materials.
The Kalita Humphreys Theater at 3636 Turtle Creek Boulevard, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and opened in December 1959, is the only theater Wright designed and among the last of his buildings completed; it seats 440, houses the Dallas Theater Center and was designated a Dallas Historic Landmark Structure in 2007. Reverchon Park, 46 acres, was built in 1915. Turtle Creek Park was developed in 1903 as Oak Lawn Park, bought by the city in 1909, and took its current name in 2019. Market Center station serves the Green and Orange lines.
19 apartment buildings in Turtle Creek / Oak Lawn, holding 4,575 units between them. This part of the directory takes in Oak Lawn and Turtle Creek. Buildings range from 52 to 380 units. The oldest listed here is The Argyle, completed in 1927; the newest is Parkview Turtle Creek by Hanover, from 2026. Every listing carries the same fields — units, year built, floors, and five amenities you can filter on — and every fact traces to a real source.