Touching Grass in Dallas

Dealey Plaza remains one of the Works Progress Administration's most overlooked masterpieces.

In the heart of Dallas, a triangular landscaped park separates the downtown grid from a tangle of highways and the lazy passage of the Trinity River. Named after G.B. Dealey, publisher of the Dallas Morning News, Dealey Plaza forms a reverse trident that brings together the city’s three oldest thoroughfares until they dissolve into a single street.

While…