Moving Day for the Landrys

“We’ re just like everyone else. when the kids are grown and the house is empty, you move,” said Alicia Landry, wife of Dallas Cowboy Coach Tom Lan-dry. “All we’re doing is just moving into a house with fewer bedrooms.”

True. There are fewer bedrooms (only four – with four baths) in the house located in the Inwood Road-Northwest Highway area. The Landrys will occupy it “sometime after the season and the playoffs.” But there any similarities with the usual move-when-the-kids-get-grown ends. As Mrs. Landry tells on herself: “I’d been casually looking for a house for several years. But this one was the first both Tom and I immediately liked.” The Landrys now live in the Hockaday area.

The split-level ranchstyle house was recently vacated by Mrs. Cynthia Stewart, former wife of Robert Stewart III, board chairman of First International Bancshares. The home was designed by architect Harwood K. Smith. It rests on a cliff that terraces down to a creek. While the outside is traditional (except for the solid glass rear), the inside is multi-level. The ultra-modern kitchen with skylighting was recently remodeled, and there’s a potting room off one bedroom. Outside there is a landscaped pool surrounded by a redwood deck and cabana, plus two greenhouses – one a gazebo, the other standard.

“It’s not a huge house, but it’s very romantic,” says one visitor. “I understand it was snapped up off the market as soon as it was for sale,” says another. “If you could see it, you’d know it was one of the greatest houses in Dallas,” says another.

The price for all this greatness? The house was listed for $350,000.