501W Tenth Street [NR/Gov(NR)], United States Courthouse, 1933. Intended to replace the massive 1896 Victorian post office and federal building that stood on Jennings Ave. at Eleventh St., this building was designed by Paul Philippe Cret, a nationally renowned architect from Philadelphia, in association with local architect Wiley G. Clarkson. Constructed in 1933 by James … Read more
S.W. Corner of Calhoun and E. Eighth Streets, Winfield Garage and Livery Co./ Winfield Place, 1919-20; 1939; 1981. As plans progressed for the Winfield Hotel (renamed the Hotel Texas y the time it opened in 1921; CBD-122), one block to the east three businessmen were planning to serve Fort Worth’s growing need for automobile parking … Read more
1000 Harding Street (at E. Ninth Street) [NR*], A.B. Crouch Wholesale Grain/Golden Rod Mills/Bewley Mills, c. 1908; 1945; c. 1980s. These two warehouses are Fort Worth’s only remnant of a plant that once housed Bewley Mills of Texas, Inc., a flour manufacturer. The five-story building to the south was erected about 1908 for A.B. Crouch … Read more
601 Houston Street, Lerner Shops, 1946-47. Originally home to two of Fort Worth’s leading clothing and dry goods stores, The Fair (1895-1930) and Cox’s (1933-46), this 1895 building was completely remodeled in 1946-47 to house Lerner Shops, a women’s clothing merchant. Wiley G. Clarkson, a Fort Worth architect, was in charge of the project. The … Read more
107 901 Lamar Street [NR], St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church, 1909-12; 1949; 1983. St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church was designed by the Fort Worth firm of Sanguinet and Staats and built by William Miller Sons and Co. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Ground was broken on April 13, 1909, but work halted after the foundation was completed so that … Read more
1001 Morgan Street, House, c. 1908. Constructed as a rental property, this house was first home to Henry N. Babcock, a salesman, and Wellington T Jones, a fruit inspector. In 1915 the property was purchased by Leroy Brown, a Pullman porter, who lived here with his wife Estelle until 1981. That year the property was … Read more
146 1209 Summit Avenue [NR*/BSHD], Harrison-Morton House, c. 1915. A remnant of the “Quality Hill” neighborhood which stretched along the bluffs overlooking the Trinity River and along both sides of Summit Avenue, this circa 1915 Craftsman bungalow has much in common with the California bungalows designed during this period by well-known architects Greene and Greene. … Read more
164 410 E. Weatherford Street [RTHL/NR], Texas State Teachers Association Headquarters Building/Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association Building, 1930; c. 1950; 1981. Constructed as the state headquarters for the Texas State Teachers Association, this building was designed by Wiley G. Clarkson and built by general contractor R.E Ball. Clarkson’s design in the Second Renaissance Revival … Read more
1101-1113 Jennings Avenue, Auto Home Garage and Midland Manufacturing Co., 1931. The front façade of this building was reconstructed in 1931 after the portion of Jennings Ave. on which it was fronted was widened. At that time the building was occupied by the Auto Home Garage and the Midland Manufacturing Co., which made pumping machinery … Read more
701 E. First Street, Augustus R. Mignon House, c. 1889. The stick style detailing seen on this house, including decorative trusses in the gable ends of the roof and quarter-round flat brackets with jig-sawn linear designs on the porch, is unusual in Fort Worth. The house was probably constructed about 1889, by Augustus R. Mignon, … Read more
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