Carl F. Hess II felt a lump catch in his throat. His eyes welled. The 38-year-old portrait artist and award-winning high school art teacher won't let himself think it for long. But the dream he partially built in Dallas' Cedars neighborhood is slowly slipping away. Everybody's got their own name for that five-story, gray-and-black, shotgun-esque house on Seegar Street, less than a mile south ...
SOURCE: Hartford Courant at 06:30AM on August 15, 2025