M Streets

Welcome to the M Streets

The M Streets, officially Greenland Hills, sit in East Dallas just north of Lower Greenville. North Central Expressway (US 75) forms the west edge, Greenville Avenue the east, McCommas Boulevard the north, and Vanderbilt Avenue the south. The name comes from the two main streets, McCommas and Monticello, plus a run of smaller streets that also start with M. This is a single-family neighborhood, not a condo district. Think compact brick Tudor cottages and some Craftsman homes on roughly 60-foot lots, most built in the 1920s. It fits buyers who want prewar character and a short walk to dinner. The trade-off is size: many original homes are small by today's standards, and the streets closest to Central pick up highway noise.

Greenland Hills is served by Dallas ISD, in the Woodrow Wilson feeder pattern:

• Elementary: Mockingbird Elementary School (K–5), just outside the neighborhood in Lower Greenville and one of the district's stronger campuses. It was renamed from Stonewall Jackson Elementary in 2018.
• Middle: J. L. Long Middle School (6–8)
• High: Woodrow Wilson High School (9–12)

The neighborhood is dense single-family blocks, so most of its green space is front yards and tree-lined streets rather than public parkland. The closest real park is Glencoe Park, a 14-acre city park just to the north with a playground, tennis courts, ball fields, and walking paths. It has been a Dallas Park and Recreation site since 1944.

The biggest date on the calendar sits right on the east edge. The Dallas St. Patrick's Parade and Festival runs down Greenville Avenue every March (Saturday, March 14 in 2026) and draws well over 100,000 people, billed as the largest St. Patrick's event in the Southwest. If you live near Greenville that weekend, plan around road closures and crowds. On the quieter side, the Greenland Hills Neighborhood Association runs block parties, garage-sale days, a garden group, and a home tour that shows off the restored Tudors. The 2023 centennial edition partnered with Preservation Dallas.

Lower Greenville does most of the neighborhood's heavy lifting for food and nightlife, and it's walkable from much of the M Streets. Granada Theater on Greenville anchors live music, and the strip runs from Terilli's and its live jazz to Quarter Acre, a Michelin-recognized kitchen. Trader Joe's on Greenville handles the grocery run, and HG Sply Co. keeps the rooftop scene going. The area's Walk Score sits around 77.

In 1923, brothers Frank and Fletcher McNeny bought 98 acres of the old Bennett farm on the eastern edge of Dallas and platted the Greenland Hills Addition. They did it differently from most Dallas developers of the day. Instead of building large homes first and filling in later, they subdivided and laid the infrastructure all at once, then marketed affordable but upscale homes to young professionals and older couples. Prices started around $1,960. Early houses leaned Craftsman, but builders soon settled on the English Tudor cottages the neighborhood is known for, most built between 1923 and 1929. Deed restrictions kept the look consistent, and the city later locked it in with conservation district status. Greenland Hills marked its centennial in 2023.

This is a fit for buyers who want real 1920s character and a walkable spot near Lower Greenville, with Mockingbird Elementary as a draw for young families. Learn the conservation district rules before you buy: they protect the streetscape, but they also limit what you can change on the outside, and a given block may fall under either the M Streets or the M Streets East district. Original cottages are compact and renovated ones carry a premium, so decide early whether you're buying to preserve or to expand.

• Greenland Hills Neighborhood Association
• Woodrow Wilson High School (Dallas ISD feeder info)
• M Streets Conservation District (Preservation Dallas)
• Glencoe Park (Dallas Park & Recreation)