210 Harding Street [RTHL/NR/ESHD(NR)], Greater Saint James Baptist Church, 1913-18. Founded in 1895 by members of Mt. Gilead Baptist Church (CBD 68), Greater St. James Baptist Church is one of several churches in this historic African-American neighborhood east of downtown Fort Worth. The congregation met in a Y.W.CA. when it was first organized, but by … Read more
404 Harding Street, House, c. 1905. Booker Cump was the first identified tenant of this house, listed in the 1922 city directory. The houses’s form and detailing suggest a much earlier construction date, and it is possible that the house was moved to this site in the early 1920s. The gallery-like porch, wrapping around the … 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
1100 Henderson Street [RTHL/NR/CFO(NR)], Masonic Temple, 1930-31. Dominating its seven and one-half acre site on a hillside overlooking downtown Fort Worth, the Masonic Temple is one of the most monumentally imposing buildings in the city. The carefully piled masses and gigantic Ionic peristyle recall the heroic classicism of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. … 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
101-107 Houston Street, Commercial Building/ Daiches Jewelry Company, 1910; 1955. George L. Gause, a funeral home operator, purchased this property in 1910 and constructed this three-story brick commercial building that same year. The building is listed on both Houston and Weatherford streets in early city directories, making it difficult to identify building tenants precisely. Gamble … Read more
111 Houston Street, Commercial Building/Engler’s Dry Goods, c.1895-1900. The actual construction date of this turn-of-the-century Victorian commercial building is not known, but it was likely erected between 1895 and 1900 by property owner Edward Disney Farmer. The earliest tenant identified in city directory records was the National Coffee Co. which located here about 1906. A … Read more
113 Houston Street, Commercial Building/Jacob Luskey Dry Goods, c. 1890s. Like its neighbor to the north (CBD 78), this building’s early history is unclear. Although it was probably constructed during the 1890s, the first firm listed in city directories at this location is the National Coffee Co., which operated from this building between about 1903 … Read more
800 Houston Street, Commercial Building, 1935; 1951. This commercial building, constructed in 1935 by Marvin Leonard, was apparently built to provide a central ticket office location for several of the railroads serving Fort Worth. The Texas and Pacific; Fort Worth and Denver City; Missouri, Kansas and Texas; Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe; and Missouri Pacific … Read more
306 Houston Street, Puckett Furniture Co./Nobby Harness Co./Juvenile Shoe Store/Solomon’s Shoe Store, c. 1903; c. 1948. This small Mission Revival building was constructed about 1903 and first housed Puckett Furniture Co. Nobby Harness Co. was here from 1917 through the mid-1920s when it moved next door (CBD 80). Juvenile Shoe Store, managed by Julius E. … Read more
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