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Relocated late-19th-century Sullivan family house at Dallas Heritage Village's living-history museum in Old City Park, where tour guides report repeated knocking on the door, EMF spikes, and a 'little girl in a yellow dress' on the staircase.
1515 South Harwood Street, Dallas, TX 75215
Research updated September 2026
Age
All ages for the daytime museum visit; the Junkyard at Old City Park event is intense and not recommended for young children, with no published numeric minimum.
Cost
$$
Dallas Heritage Village general admission applies; the seasonal Junkyard at Old City Park event has a separate $40 ticket, sold on site only.
Access
Limited Access
Outdoor living-history village with grass walkways; the Sullivan House itself is a historic wood-frame structure with steps and a staircase.
Equipment
Photos OK
Est. 1885 · Dallas Heritage Village (Old City Park) · Daniel F. Sullivan — Dallas's first Water Commissioner · Pre-1910 Dallas vernacular architecture · Sullivan Park naming (1936–1941)
Dallas Heritage Village, located at Old City Park at 1515 South Harwood Street, is a living-history museum of more than two dozen relocated and restored pre-1910 Dallas structures. The village opened to the public in 1966 and is run by the Dallas County Heritage Society.
The Sullivan House at Dallas Heritage Village is named for Daniel F. and Mary Sullivan, who occupied the original house for nearly a century. Daniel F. Sullivan served as Dallas's first Water Commissioner; from 1936 to 1941, City Park was officially renamed Sullivan Park in his honor. The Texas Historical Commission marker for the Sullivan family confirms the basic biographical record.
Dallas Heritage Village is best known publicly for the Millermore mansion, an 1855–1862 Greek Revival plantation house relocated to the village. Millermore is separately documented as a haunted location in the HauntBound corpus and is not part of this Sullivan House entry. The Sullivan House is a less-prominent structure on the same village campus and is the focus of more recent CW33 and WFAA coverage of the village's seasonal paranormal-investigation programming.
The village remains an active operating museum.
Sources
The Sullivan House paranormal account is grounded in WFAA's 'Old City Park's ghost stories' feature, in which a Dallas Heritage Village tour guide describes hearing knocking and pounding on the Sullivan House front door multiple times in a single evening while waiting for visitors — only to find no one outside when she opened the door. CW33's coverage of the seasonal paranormal-investigation tour through the village adds EMF spikes inside the home and a REM-pod alerting on the staircase, where the tour narrative places a 'little girl in a yellow dress.'
The America's Haunted Roadtrip ghost-tour blog catalogs Dallas Heritage Village more broadly, with Sullivan House and Millermore both noted; Millermore (separately in the HauntBound corpus) has the deeper documentation base.
The Sullivan family historical record (per the Texas Historical Commission marker) does not record a child's death at the original Sullivan property; the 'little girl in a yellow dress' narrative appears to be a tour-level ghost story rather than a family-history-anchored account. The reported phenomena (knocking, EMF, staircase activity) come from active tour-guide accounts and the village's own paranormal-investigation programming.
Two cautions apply: Sullivan House interior access has historically been by guided tour or paid paranormal investigation, so confirm current access with City Park before visiting, and the paranormal source base is narrower than the village's Millermore counterpart.
Notable Entities
Media Appearances
Walk Dallas Heritage Village's living-history museum of pre-1910 Dallas structures, though Sullivan House is not on the city's current list of buildings open during visitor-center hours; access depends on a guided tour or the seasonal Junkyard event. The Millermore mansion in the same village is also a well-known reported haunt and is separately documented.
The Junkyard at Old City Park is a current October haunted-house event with seven staged houses, live actors, and effects; Sullivan House is one of the seven. Door pounding, EMF spikes, and a 'little girl in a yellow dress' on the staircase were reported on the paranormal-investigation tours CW33 and WFAA covered; ask Old City Park whether that program still runs alongside the Junkyard event.
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