Neighborhood: Central Business District

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

1500 Eleventh Avenue [NR*], City of Fort Worth Water Works/North Holly Water Treatment Plant, 1891-92; 1917; 1931; 1932; 1952; 1954.  The old City of Water Works, now known as the North Holly Water Treatment Plan, is a complex of buildings beneath the western bluffs of the central business district.  The oldest structure, the pump building, … Read more

40 1411 E. Eighteenth Street [NR], Andrew J. Chambers School/East Eighteenth Street Colored School No. KJI.M. Terrell High School/I.M. Terrell Junior-Senior High School/Terrell Continuing Education Center, 190910; 1936-37; 1955-56. At the core of this historic building complex is the Andrew J. Chambers School, built in 1909 to serve the students of the Fort Worth school … Read more

1416 E. Eighteenth Street [EEHD], Gorman-McDonald House, c. 1902. This turn-of-the-century folk house appears to be an amalgam of a rectangular gabled house and a square hip-roofed house.  It is distinguished by a dignified gallery-like front porch which runs along its front.  The property was purchased by saloon owner David Gorman from real estate developer Judge … Read more

1407 E. Nineteenth Street, Tabernacle Cumberland Presbyterian Church Parsonage, c. 1895.  Tabernacle Cumberland Presbyterian Church purchased this property in 1894.  Located adjacent to the main church structure, the 1896-97 city directory lists Rev. James M. Martin, pastor of the church, at this location.  The church sold the property in 1898.  William B. Bush, a train … Read more

1301 Ballinger Street [NR*/BSHD], Leon Gross House, 1915; 1988-89. This Prairie School residence, constructed in 1915 for Edith and Leon Gross, is one of a handful of residences remaining in what was once an impressive turn-of-the-century neighborhood.  Gross was president of Washer Brothers, a prominent clothing company in downtown Fort Worth.  He moved to Fort … 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

715 W. Belknap Street, Sam Vaughn Co./Abe Martin Co., 1946.  Sam Vaughn, a dealer in water and oil well supplies and the Fort Worth agent for Aeromotor windmills, hired architect Charles T. Freelove of Consolidated Architects and Engineers to design this building.  Constructed in 1946, the late Moderne structure features rounded corners and aluminum lettering … Read more

815 Bennett Street [SAHD(NR)], House, c. 1900.  The history of this charming turn-of-the-century house is unclear.  The land was owned by the Wall family from the 1880s through 1961, but appears to have been rental property for most of that time.  Research by the Tarrant County Historical Commission indicates that the house may have been … Read more