Neighborhood: Central Business District

702 E. First Street [EFHD], House, c.1906. This is a good example of a shotgun house, a common working-class style built in the south primarily from the 1880s through the 1930s, although examples from the 1940s and ’50s are found. This house has decorative shingles in the gable end and a recessed porch with a … Read more

511 E. Fifth Street [EWHD(NR)], Ellison Furniture and Carpet Co. Mattress Factory/Tindall Record Storage Warehouses, 1913.  This mattress factory and warehouse was constructed by Ellison Furniture and Carpet Co. in 1913 to replace a facility that had been destroyed by fire.  The furniture company has a long history in Fort Worth.  It was founded in … 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

911 Cherry Street, James Welch House, 1909.  James Welch, a molder with Fort Worth Machine and Foundry Co. and his wife Marie hired contractor C.B. Webb to construct this house according to plans by architect Marion L. Waller.  The house was completed in 1909.  During the teens Marie Welch offered furnished rooms here.  The two-story … Read more

100 N. Houston Street, Civil Courts Building, 1957-58; 1988.  Built to relieve overcrowding in the adjacent Tarrant County Courthouse (CBD 163) the Civil Courts Building, constructed in 1957-58, was a late work of the important Fort Worth architect Wyatt C. Hedrick.  Butcher & Sweeney were the contractors.  As constructed, the five-story Indiana limestone building exemplified … Read more

711 Houston Street [NR*/Sky(NR)], First National Bank/Baker Building, 1910; 1926; 1967.  Incorporated on January 16, 1877, First National Bank was the oldest in the city when it hired architects Sanguinet and Staats to design its new ten-story building in 1910.  William Miller Sons and Co. of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania constructed the elegant classical Beaux Arts structure.  … Read more

 1008 Macon Street, Shield Company, Inc., 1937.  This diminutive Georgian Revival building was constructed in 1937 as offices and display rooms for the Shield Co., Inc., wholesale distributors of furniture and electrical appliances.  Cornelius Savage, president of the company, reportedly designed his own building.  The one-story hollow tile structure is clad in red brick along … Read more

512 Nichols Street [HPHD], House, c.1908. Constructed about 1908 as a rental property, this house has had a high tenant turnover through the years.  J. Sidney, who worked for Swift & Co., was the first occupant listed in city directory records. Many of the other tenants were laborers or carpenters.  The double-pen residence has clear … Read more

166 708 E. Weatherford Street, House, c. 1908. Constructed about 1908, this house was used as a rental property Samuel D. Miller, a saloon keeper, was a long-term tenant who lived here from 1908 through the early 1920s. The one-story wood frame house had a complex plan and roof form, including a wraparound L-plan porch. … Read more