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.
Joseph J. Patterson, a draftsman in the architectural firm of Wyatt C. Hedrick, had this house built in 1928, presumably based on his own design. It is a carefully detailed picturesque composition of interlocking gabled masses. The white stucco walls are half-timbered on the second story. Rough-cut random stone surrounds the entry and climbs up … Read more
The McCauley House is two stories with a clipped gabled roof and a forward projecting entry wing whose gabled roof extends eccentrically almost to ground level. The red brick walls are pimpled with rocks and large clinkers. Built in 1931 by contractor J. D. Pope as a speculative property for B. K. Webb, the house … Read more
The steeply pitched gabled and jerkinhead roofs and red brick walls of this house recall residential architecture of Tudor England. The impression is reinforced by the pointed arched entry and dominant chimney with corbelled top. The delicately scaled, sinuous half-timbering is unusual. Built c. 1927, the first recorded owner was Joseph W. Moore. The Abbott … Read more
The Trammell House is a superbly sited and crafted stone residence on a sloping site above Forest Park and the Trinity River. Constructed of roughly squared and uncoursed shellstone, in plan it is a staggered cross with cross-gabled wings of differing heights. Massive chimneys are set in the end walls. A porte-cochere crosses a drive … Read more
This large two-story house has a rectangular plan, painted brick walls and red tile hipped roof. Horizontality is emphasized by over-scaled oblong windows on the first and second stories. Reputedly the first house constructed in the neighborhood, it was built c. 1923 for Bryant Wesley Owens, a prominent lumberman. Zeno C. Ross, an attorney, bought … Read more
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.
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 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
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