1010 E. Fourth Street [ESHD(NR)], House, c.1908. This shotgun style residence, in one of Fort Worth’s older African-American neighborhoods, was constructed about 1908. The first tenant was Ruth Simpson who lived 1991 photograph here from 1908 until 1912. The one-room deep, wood ~— frame house has an enclosed porch which may be a later alteration. … Read more
1100 W. Seventh Street [Auto], Carroll-Dillard Co./Clyde Burns Motors/Meador Oldsmobile, c. 1926. Constructed about 1926, this building first housed the Carroll-Dillard Co., dealers in Studebaker and Erskine motor cars. The dealership was here for only one year, replaced by a succession of automobile dealers and, during the mid-1930s, a custom furniture shop. Clyde Burns Motors … Read more
1309 E. Bluff Street [HPHD], House, c. 1906. This one story wood frame house was erected as a rental property about 1906. Etta Jackson, a widow, is the first tenant listed in city directory records. A succession of tenants, including a fireman, carpenters, and a machinist, followed until 1919 when Amanda Jane Mattox purchased the … Read more
70 801 Grove Street [NR*/WSHD(NR)], Montgomery Ward & Co./Fakes & Co. Warehouse/Tindall Record Storage Warehouse, c. 1911; c. 1980s. This handsome five-story brick building was built about 1911 to house Montgomery Ward and Company’s mail order and catalog goods operation. Wards used this facility until 1924, when they moved into the old Fort Worth Chevrolet … Read more
In 1928 Sanger Brothers, which had only recently built another store building at 515 Houston Street , started construction on this showplace building. Fort Worth architect Wyatt C. Hedrick designed the Spanish Renaissance Revival structure which was erected by Wohlfield and Witt, contractors. Various problems, including the collapse of a wall between this construction site … Read more
1401 Jones Street, Santa Fe Freight Station, 1938. Constructed in 1938 as part of a series of improvements undertaken by the Fort Worth Union Passenger Station Co. and the Santa Fe Railroad, this freight depot housed inbound and outbound freight, cold storage for perishable freight, and offices. Located just to the north of what was … Read more
714 Main Street [NR*/Sky(NR)], Farmers and Mechanics National Bank/ Fort Worth National Bank/ Continental LIfe Building/ Trasnport Life Building, 1920-21; 1050-60; 1988. Completed in 1921 at a cost of $2 million, the twenty-four story Farmers and Mechanics National Bank was proclaimed the tallest building in the Southwestern United States, thereby taking the title from the … Read more
142 1005 Samuels Avenue, [NR/SAHD(NR)], Hoadley -Greenwall- Stewart House, c. 1907. The history of this two-story Craftsman style house is unclear. Seth W. Stewart, an attorney, lived on this property as early as 1898, but the style of the house indicates a later construction date. It is more likely that the house was constructed by … Read more
159 1000 Throckmorton Street [NR/Gov(NR)], City Hall/Public Safety and Courts Building, 1938. Designed by architect Wyatt C. Hedrick and the Elmer G. Withers Architectural Co., this building replaced a nineteenth century Victorian structure on the same site. The project was funded by the Public Works Administration and a city. bond program. Constructed of white Cordova … Read more
This impressive Queen Anne house was built for Lulu Foster Garvey and her husband William B. Garvey. Mrs. Garvey was the daughter of Isaac Foster and the granddaughter of Baldwin L. Samuel. Mary and Isaac Foster deeded the land on which this house stands to the Garveys in 1883. Mr. Garvey was a grocer who … Read more
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