A sophisticated Prairie Style house with a high central block and low symmetrical dependencies that project forward like small pavilions. Windows are grouped into over-scaled, abstract grids. The brick walls have been painted and the columns of the porte-cochere replaced. The first recorded owner was Harry Hicks, president of the King Midas Oil and Gas … 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
Most of the prominent residences of Mistletoe Heights are located on Mistletoe Drive, a road which meanders along bluffs overlooking the Trinity River. This large two-story brick house, with red-tiled hipped roof and full porch with paired Tuscan columns, has a central entry and symmetrically placed windows. Built c. 1915, the earliest recorded owner was … 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 two-story brick house has offset wings with steeply pitched gabled roofs projecting forward from a hipped-roofed central mass. The interior gabled wing is stuccoed with vertical half-timbering on the second story. Designed by Joseph R. Pelich, construction began in 1924 and was completed the following spring. The original owner was B.C. Reich, Jr. (1887-1964), … 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
The Ponton House is a picturesquely massed Mediterranean style house with white stuccoed walls and flat roofs trimmed in red tile. The chimney is treated as an arcaded belvedere. Designed by Joseph R. Pelich, the house was built c. 1920. The first owner-occupant was Dr. A. R. Ponton, a well-known Fort Worth physician, who established … 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
One of the most imposing structures on a street containing a number of large residences, this two and one-half story Tudor Revival house was built in 1923 by Mrs. Anna Church for herself and her son and his family. The house was planned with separate entries and living units. The massive gabled central wing is … 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
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