Neighborhood: Berkeley

This apartment complex consists of two rectangular brick buildings flanking a central grassy courtyard with an unused fountain at the rear. Entries are framed by engaged Tuscan columns with pediments. The site plan — mirror-image buildings facing a central court — was a recurring type in apartment construction in Fort Worth in the 1920s.

These ornamental streetlights were installed in the Cheltenham subdivision between c. 1926 and 1928. The slender metal poles, tapering and fluted, are composite designs assembled from the components of different standards, according to city staff. They are similar to the “National” model marketed by the Union Metal Co. of Canton, Ohio.

This two-story house has a rectangular plan, ochre brick veneer, glazed green tile hipped roof, and full front terrace, which is partially covered by a portico supported by brick piers. Cast stone Tuscan columns frame the entry. The house was built in 1924 for John H. Greer, president and treasurer of the Mitchell-Greer Co., dealers … Read more

This two-story L-plan brick house was built in 1930 and purchased in 1934 by J. H. Hill, oilman. His nephew, J. Christopher Hill, became the owner in 1940. The house remains in the family. The house is no longer owned by the Hill family.

This two-story symmetrical house, with rectangular plan and red tile hipped roof, is finished in natural unpainted stucco. It was built in 1923 for Mrs. Julia Martin, widow of Sidney Martin (1828-1903), a prominent Fort Worth merchant, who had been president of the Martin-Brown Mercantile Co. Descendants of the original owners occupied the house until … Read more

This two-story brick-veneered house has a tiled hipped roof. Although it is undistinguished architecturally, the house has a fascinating history. Its present appearance dates from a major remodeling in the 1920s by W. Lee “Pappy” O’Daniel, then manager of the Burris Flour Mill, late governor of Texas (1939-41) and U. S. Senator (1941-49). O’Daniel owned … Read more

Built in 1924 for John H. Stinson, superintendent of the Fort Worth Gas Co. (later Lone Star), this stuccoed house is an exercise in studied quaintness, with varied roof forms and meticulous detailing. With further documentation, particularly the identity of the architect, it may be eligible for the National Register. The Stinson House was designated … Read more

The Copeland House is an H-plan bungalow with brick walls and interlocking glazed green-tiled gabled roofs, sited on a raised corner lot. A walled terrace with urn planters wraps around two sides of the house. It was built c. 1926 for Rudy Copeland, president of the Textile Securities Corporation. Reputedly, the house was designed as … Read more

This two-story gabled brick house with full two-story portico was built in 1937 for Mr. and Mrs. C. Binkley Smith. The design was based on Mrs. Smith ancestral home, an ante-bellum mansion in Columbus, Mississippi which is now demolished.