The very popular Tudor Revival style began in the 1890s and was adopted by both high and middle class home builders in many of America’s suburbs during the first 40 years of the 20th century. The form and style are reflected primarily in the highly pitched and sweeping roof line. Built in about 1929 in … Read more
This two-story red brick house has an overhanging hipped roof and full front porch supported by pierced brick piers. The porch extends to become a porte-cochere to the east. The house was built c. 1918 for Percy C. Garrett, owner of a downtown automobile agency. The Garrett House is a contributing resource in the Mistletoe … Read more
The Dorsey House is a two-story brick structure with a rectangular plan. The low-slung hipped roof with wide overhang and equally low-slung porch allude to the Prairie Style developed by Frank Lloyd Wright in the early years of the century. The house was built in 1918, possibly by Elwood N. Dorsey, a contractor who first … Read more
The first owners of this two-story L-plan brick house were Mr. and Mrs. C. Arthur Wright. Wright was a native of Virginia who came to Texas in 1901, establishing a prominent legal practice in Amarillo and later in Fort Worth. The house has been altered by subsequent owners. The Wright House is a contributing resource … Read more
This one-story house has red brick walls trimmed with carefully detailed white cast stone and interlocking hipped roofs of glazed green tile. Sited conspicuously on a corner lot, a porch and a porte-cochere project from the two street façades. Built in 1927 by Stein & Carb for Jacob Klar, partner in the jewelry firm of … Read more
Fort Worth architect John Wesley Jones designed this and three neighboring houses for his mother, Pearl N. Jones, and his sisters between 1948 and 1959. The four lots for the houses make up the Pearl Springs Addition, located in a secluded wooded area near the Fort Worth Zoo. This house is constructed of regular-coursed rough-cut … Read more
Set into the side of a hill, Wayside Church of God in Christ is the last surviving remnant of Trezevant Hill, an African American community on Fort Worth’s South Side, just east of the Mistletoe Heights neighborhood. The congregation of the church began in 1912 as Trezevant Hill Church of God in Christ. In 1930, … Read more
The ornamental streetlights in Mistletoe Heights closely resemble the “National” standard produced by the Union Metal Co. of Canton, Ohio, with pedestal base, tapering fluted metal pole, and bell-top luminaries.
Katherine and William C. Weaver, superintendent of merchandise for Montgomery Ward & Co. (2600 West 7th Street), were the first tenants of this house in 1925. A. L. Weissenbom was residing in the house by 1927 and purchased it in 1934. According to family sources, Meredith R. Carb was the builder. The frame bungalow of … Read more
Built in 1946, the Hobbs House is a late example of the Moderne Style house. It is essentially a hard-edged stuccoed box which makes remarkably few concessions to ornament and none to tradition. Its first owner was William T. Hobbs, a dealer in used trucks and trailers. The house has received a one-story garage addition … Read more