Actually, all the old neighborhoods have a lot of charm. Even Classen Ten Penn, fixed up, could be charming. Heritage Hills, Mesta Park, Gatewood, Edgemere, Crown Heights, Putnam Heights: I love the architecture in these neighborhoods. The problems started in the 50s and 60s with the ranch house, IMO. That is one ugly style of house and it hung on until the 60s and 70s, which had an even uglier unnameable style that you can see in Quail Creek and neighborhoods started at that time. Then we got into what is called the "North Dallas style", which is a little bit of a take on the more attractive styles of the teens through early 40s. I always thought the newer neighborhoods suffered from lack of sidewalks and structured trees planted near the sidewalks, which gives you the charming tree-lined streets that many of us admire. Especially in the 60s and 70s around here, people started to get creative with their landscaping, or worshipped the lawn so much that they didn't want to mar it with trees. So, as the houses aged, you didn't get growth of trees along the street to soften the ugliness.