The Cloyce Box Ranch was the site of the original Southfork ranch location, where the initial five episodes of ''
Dallas
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'' were filmed. The series left the location at the end of the first season in 1978 at the request of property owner,
Cloyce K. Box, who was unhappy with the negative portrayal of the Texas oil industry by the show. The production moved to the ranch "
Duncan Acres", near
Plano, Texas
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, where the series was filmed for the rest of its run.
The ranch house, a 14,000-square-foot
colonial-style mansion designed by John Astin Perkins and originally built in 1941 as a replica of
Tara, the fictional plantation house in the 1939 film
Gone With The Wind
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* ''Gone with the Wind'' (novel), a 1936 novel by Margaret Mitchell
* ''Gone with the Wind'' (film), the 1939 adaptation of the novel
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, no longer exists, having been destroyed by a fire in 1987. The frame of the original Southfork Ranch that was used in the pilot season still stands in
Frisco, Texas
Frisco is a city in Collin and Denton counties in the U.S. state of Texas. It is part of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex and about from both Dallas Love Field and Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. Its population was 200,509 at the 2 ...
, on the northeast corner of
Preston Rd. and Main St. The address of the house is: 10514 E. Main St., Frisco, TX 75035.
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Ranches in Texas
Buildings and structures in Dallas
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