1012-20 W. Seventh Street [Auto], Smith-Swinney Motor Co./Mastin Motor Co./Fort Worth Shaver and Appliance Center, 1927; 1948; c. 1960. Smith-Swinney Motor Co., purveyors of Hudson and Essex Motor Cars, were the first occupants of this 1927 building designed by architect Wyatt C. Hedrick. The firm was here for only two years, replaced by Mastin Motor … Read more
705 E. Bluff Street [SAHD(NR)], Albert J. Rivers House, 1903. Albert J. Rivers, an electrician for Armour & Co., bought this lot in 1903 and had his residence constructed here that same year. The Rivers family owned the property until 1965. The one-story wood frame house has an unusual double hipped roof central section with … Read more
508 E. Seventh Street (previously listed at 801 Grove Street) [NR/WSHD(NR)], Hunt-Hawes Grocer Co., 1910; 1912. Built in 1910 to house the operations of Hunt-Hawes Grocer Co., a wholesale grocery firm, this building was extensively rebuilt following a 1912 fire. The building actually fronts on W. Seventh St., and during the time it was used … Read more
406-408 Houston Street, J.C. Penney Co./ Fakes and Co., 1929; 1937;1989. Rebuilt after a major fire destroyed the old J.C. Penney store in January 1929, this three-story red brick building housed Penney’s downtown location from 1929 until 1946. Fakes and Co., a furniture store, occupied the building when Penneys left and remained here until 1967. … Read more
1001 Jones Street (at E. Ninth Street), Casey-Swasey & Co./Superior Brewing Co./Collier Industries, c. 1893; c. 1941. Casey-Swasey & Co., a wholesale liquor, wine, and cigar dealer constructed this building about 1893 to house its stock and operations. Founded in 1873, it was one of Fort Worth’s pioneer businesses. During Prohibition the firm changed its … Read more
604 Main Street [CFW/NR], S.H. Kress Building, 1936. The S.H. Kress Building is a dignified Moderne composition, notable for the quality of its materials and design. It is one of only a few privately-constructed downtown Fort Worth buildings built during the Depression. Designed by Edward F. Sibbert, a New York architect who also drew plans … Read more
141 915 Samuels Avenue [NR/SAHD{NR)], Talbott-Wall House, 1903. Several other houses existed on this site before Dr. Richard D. Talbott had this partially shingled Colonial Revival residence built in 1903. Talbott, a physician, had first purchased the property in 1898. The Talbotts lived here for many years; Elizabeth Talbott lived in the home after her … Read more
158 915 Throckmorton Street, Fort Worth Public Library, 1938-39. This Fort Worth Public Library building was completed in June 1939 at a cost of over $390,000. It occupied the same triangular site as the old Carnegie Public Library. Built with the aid of the Public Works Administration, a federal project designed to provide jobs and … Read more
Isaac Foster, a farmer who had significant land holdings, is first listed at this address in the 1883-84 city directory. He and hist wife, Mary, occupied the house until his death about 1900. Following her husband’s death, Mary Foster lived with her daughter and son-in-law Lulu and William B. Garvey. In 1911 this property was … Read more
During the late nineteenth-century stones of limestone, granite, or other material were used to provided durable and attractive curbing along city streets. The limestone blocks along Ballinger St. and Summit Ave., remnants of what was probably a much larger stretch of stone curbing, were likely installed when the Quality Hill neighborhood where they are located … Read more
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