John M. Parker, Vice President of Simon Hubig Co., a wholesale banking firm, built this elegant bungalow in 1922. The house was designed by O.H. Atkinson and constructed by WE. and T.L. Snead. Mr. and Mrs. J.L Tangey moved into the house in 1949, and it remains in the Tangey family. The one-story, red brick … Read more
One of the oldest houses in the Meadowbrook area, this structure was reportedly constructed about 1908. The Hendricks family owned the 15 acre estate on which the structure stood until 1916 when they sold it to William A. and Kate Pearce. Pearce subdivided a portion of the acreage in 1926 as the Mount Vernon Heights … Read more
Alfred J. Borman purchased this property in 1912 and opened his grocery store about 1920. He had been living nearby at 3001 Purington Avenue since 1913. In 1945 Reverend Isaac E. Clark took over the store, renaming it Clark’s Grocery and Market. Clark ran the store through the 1950s. This small, quaint commercial structure is … Read more
This house is a large two-story bungalow with a lipped roof and exposed rafters. The prominent porch, which has a hipped roof with exposed rafters echoing the line of the house roof, runs along the entire front facade and the east elevation. Handsome tapering boxed posts on brick bases support the porch roof. Otto Schmidt, … Read more
This large Colonial Revival house has a full two-story, pedimented portico with Tuscan columns on stone bases. The house has an elegant Federal style entrance door with side lights and a fanlight transom. The symmetrical facade has four double-hung windows flanking the central portico. The house is covered with white stucco. James A. Feagin and … Read more
The Ayres Cemetery is an old family cemetery that served the pioneer Ayres family and their descendants. The small plot remaining today in the Ramada Inn (now the Plaza Hotel) parking lot is part of the original two-acre cemetery. In 1848 Benjamin P. Ayres and his wife Emily settled m Birdville, the original Tarrant County … Read more
The Fort Worth Independent School District annexed the Sagamore Hill Independent School District in 1925. The original Sagamore Hill School had nine classrooms, which proved to be inadequate to accommodate area school children by the 1930s. The Fort Worth Independent School District built a new school in 1940 as part of a major school expansion … Read more
Robert L. Carlock, Jr., a contractor who owned Southland Tile and Mantle Co., built this U-plan bungalow in 1925. Obscured by trees and foliage, this one-story structure is constructed of fine polychrome red and black brick. Two gabled wings flank a central terrace with French doors opening to the interior. Set on a large lot, … Read more
This pair of reinforced concrete and steel underpasses was built to accommodate automobile traffic on Conner Avenue beneath the Texas and Pacific Railroad tracks and Lancaster Avenue. Constructed in 1936-37 with partial funding from the Public Works Administration Federal Grade Separation Program, these bridges replaced earlier viaducts built in 1927. The City of Fort Worth … Read more
This small brick masonry commercial building is faced with ochre brick and has a stepped parapet and transomed storefronts. The 1928 city directory indicated that the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. Store No. 13 was the first tenant in this building. During the 1930s, the building became a feed store; in 1947 he American … Read more
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