This two-story apartment building is sheathed with stucco over a wood frame. In composition, it has two hipped wings joined by a terraced breezeway. It was built in 1936 by contractor R. E. Steagall for Edney and Annie Duke. The complex fits sensitively into a residential neighborhood. This building was listed in the National Register … Read more
Located in an older prestigious residential neighborhood, this two-story brick apartment building fits gracefully onto its site. It was built c. 1924 for Mrs. Irene G. Barrow, and known as the Roseland Apartments in the late 1920s and 1930s. The building has particularly fine casement windows with delicate mullions. Correction: Mrs. Barrow was the second … Read more
Built during the booming 1920s when the demand for apartments was high, this two-story red brick example has a low-pitched hipped roof with a centered hipped attic dormer vent. The building was constructed in a mix of Colonial Revival and Bungalow styles. The Colonial Revival style is revealed through the symmetrically composed façade; the Bungalow … Read more
1222 Peach Street [HPHD], House, c. 1898. This is the best preserved of three similar structures in this block of Peach St., just north and east of the courthouse. Evidently constructed as rental property by owner Sam Evans, this house housed a number of railroad employees during its early years. Between 1934 and 1946 the … Read more
North Fort Worth Presbyterian Church was organized in 1903 and acquired this site in 1905. The congregation merged with John Knox Presbyterian Church in 1951, and moved to the River Oaks area. The property was purchased in 1951 by the Board of the Church of the N’azarene; the renamed Iglesia del Nazareno serves their Spanish-speaking … Read more
James P. Shirley, of Berry and Shirley and vice-president of Citizen Hardware Co., owned and resided in this unusual house from 1912 through 1918. On a corner side, the hip-roofed house features two gabled bays flanking a diagonal gabled portico. The frame house retains the original narrow-milled wood siding and variegated shingles in the gabled … Read more
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