1110 Penn Street [NR/RTHL/CFW], Ball-Eddleman McFarland House, 1899; 1980-91. One of only a handful of surviving nineteenth-century Victorian homes in Fort Worth, this impressive bluff top residence is located in an area known as Quality Hill. At the turn-of-the-century it was home to many of Fort Worth’s cattlemen, bankers, and professional people. Designed by Howard … Read more
152 611 Throckmorton Street [NR/Sky(NR)], Petroleum Building/Life of America Building/Shick Building/ Finevest Building/Executive Plaza Building, 1927; 1969. Businessman and oil entrepreneur R.O. Dulaney moved to Fort Worth in 1919, flush with success from oil wells he had drilled in Electra, Texas and Duncan, Oklahoma. In 1927 Dulaney, acting as president of the Dulaney-Johnston Investment Co., … Read more
169 308 E. Fourth Street, Emergency Hospital/City-County Hospital, 1913; 1917; 1925-26; 1943. In 1913 Fort Worth voters approved a $20,000 bond issue, which was matched by an appropriation from Tarrant County, for the construction of a jointly administered city-county hospital to serve indigent patients. Completed that same year, the two-story red brick building designed by … Read more
The Trinity River Bridge was a $675,000 project erected by the Texas Highway Department with federal grade crossing elimination funds. It connected west Fort Worth with the central business district as part of a cross-town artery planned for East and West Lancaster. Julian Montgomery was the highway engineer in charge of the project, and Russ … Read more
108 E. Third Street [NR/CFO(NR)], Knights ofPythias Club Building, 1920; 1981-82. The Knights of Pythias Club Building, adjacent to the main Knights of Pythias Castle Hall (CBD 115), was erected in 1920 to provide expanded space for the fraternal organization’s operations. Designed by architect J.J. Pollard, the main floor was lease space, while the second … Read more
1600 W. Fifth Street, First Baptist Church/Calvary Cathedral, 1964-65. First Baptist Church has had a long history in downtown Fort Worth, and several notable pastors including J. Frank Norris and Homer Ritchie. Two previous church buildings burned, and the 1931 church which stood on the block bounded by Throckmorton, Third, Fourth, and Taylor where Tandy … Read more
1310 Ballinger Street [BSHD], George T. Reynolds Carriage House, c. 1900-01. This building was originally the carriage house for the George T. Reynolds home (CBD 65) at 1404 EI Paso St. With his brother William, George Reynolds ran the Reynolds Cattle Co. headquartered in Fort Worth. The Reynolds family owned this property until 1935 when … Read more
1200, 1208, 1210, 1212, 1214, 1216, 1218 Dolores Street, Seven Houses, c. 1905. The shotgun house, a house one room wide and one or more rooms deep, is a distinctive folk house type that appears throughout Texas. It traditionally served as working class housing and was sometimes, as in this case, built in multiple units. … Read more
800 Houston Street, Commercial Building, 1935; 1951. This commercial building, constructed in 1935 by Marvin Leonard, was apparently built to provide a central ticket office location for several of the railroads serving Fort Worth. The Texas and Pacific; Fort Worth and Denver City; Missouri, Kansas and Texas; Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe; and Missouri Pacific … Read more
902 Houston Street, Henry Hammann Meat Market/Terry’s Grill, c. 1909; 1981. Constructed about 1909 to house Henry Hammann’s Meat Market, this small one-story brick commercial building has also been used as a bakery, grocery store, and dry good establishment. Since about 1936 it has been in use as a restaurant under several proprietors. The storefront … Read more
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