Neighborhood: Fort Worth

This gymnasium is part of a complex of abandoned school buildings and athletic fields covering a large city block (see 1015 S. Jennings and 309 W. Terrell). Designed by Fort Worth architect Clyde H. Woodruff, the reinforced concrete brick-clad structure was built with funds from the school district’s PWA building program. It served the neighboring … Read more

Ornamental streetlights, common in American cities prior to World War II, are increasingly rare. New lighting technology and cheaper fixtures continue to replace older standards. Fort Worth retains a variety of ornamental streetlights in some of its historic residential neighborhoods. These were installed in the University Place subdivision by the Eugene Ashe Electric Co. between … Read more

Bewley Hall is a small one-story brick structure, rectangular in plan, with flat roof. The front façade is treated as an arcade, with four round-arched openings, three of which are windows, the fourth originally an entry framed by a pedimented Tuscan portico, now enclosed as a window. The building was designed by Joseph R. Pelich … Read more

This diminutively scaled brick commercial building has a central half-round parapet containing a cast stone medallion inscribed with the date “1927.” The original occupant, a water-heating company, stayed only several years. Since then, the building has had a succession of tenants, mostly cafes. “The Little Diner” has been here since 1981. The storefront has been … Read more

This three-story brick structure with a rusticated base and pedimented entry was built in 1909 as a telephone exchange for the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company. Since 1939 the building has been used for offices, as a warehouse and as an apartment house tenanted primarily by gypsies. A major renovation in 1982-83 included the replacement of … Read more

Ornamental streetlights, common in American cities prior to World War II, are increasingly rare. New lighting technology and cheaper fixtures continue to replace older standards. Fort Worth retains a variety of ornamental streetlights in some of its historic residential neighborhoods. These were installed in the University Place subdivision by the Eugene Ashe Electric Co. between … Read more

The United States government began construction of the Helium Production Plant in 1918. The plant was to supply helium for inflating blimps and dirigibles to be used during World War I. The plant received natural gas from the Petrolia field near Wichita Falls, a field from which the Lone Star Gas Co. had supplied the … Read more

This wood-framed church is sheathed in clapboard and is rectangular in plan with cross-gabled roof and square entry belfry. Detailing is eclectic, including such Craftsman Style elements as stick brackets and notched barge boards, with a classicized window treatment. The building’s non-institutional design was appropriate for the residential neighborhood in which it was built. Constructed … Read more

This is a fine example of a recurring residential type in turn-of-the-century Fort Worth, the one-story wood-framed house with hipped central mass and gabled bays projecting to the front and side. The surfaces are finely textured with narrow clapboard siding and decorative shingles. Jigsaw brackets grace porch posts and support a front window hood. Built … Read more

These ornamental streetlights were installed in the Park Hill subdivision beginning in 1926. The tapering fluted metal poles with “lantern” luminaries resemble closely the “Metropolitan” standard of the Union Metal Co. of Canton, Ohio, first developed for installation in Hollywood, California.