Knox A. Thomas purchased a lot from the John C. Ryan Land Co. in November 1923. His house was completed the following year. It is a substantial two-story brick structure with hipped roof and full front porch. The proportions of the brick porch piers and roof brackets reinforce the house’s feeling of massiveness. Thomas was … Read more
This large two-story house is rectangular in plan and has a glazed green-tiled hipped roof. Walls are red brick over hollow tile. Rectangular bays project from the sides and rear. A full roof-terraced porch and terrace with cast stone balustrade extends across the front. The house was built for Andrew Jackson Long, a prominent Fort … Read more
The Weid House is a wood-framed structure faced in buff brick. In composition, it is a one-story hipped wing which telescopes forward in progressively smaller masses from a two-story wing with jerkinhead roof. The roofs are clad in glazed green tile. A jerkinheaded portico, with roof pierced by twin piers, leads to a full recessed … Read more
This one-story stucco-clad house has a Baroque/Mission Style parapet and half-round portico opening onto a full terrace with urn-topped balustrade. It was designed by Joseph R. Pelich for J. H. Crites and built in 1922. Original plans called for a second story. Shortly after construction was completed, the house was sold to Henry W. Lawrence, … Read more
This two-story house is rectangular in plan with sandstone veneer on the ground story and stuccoed with half-timbering above. The cross-gabled roofs are clad in red tile. The entry is set in a two-story gabled bay totally clad in sandstone. A terrace on the south wall is partially covered by a gabled porch. The house … Read more
The Patton House is a two-story wood-framed house with polychrome brick veneer below and half-timbered white stucco above. It is generally rectangular in plan, with red-tiled gabled roof. A gabled bay projects south, with arcaded loggia (now enclosed) flanked by a balustraded terrace. The house was built c. 1925 for Roy and Lillian Patton. Patton … Read more
The Donnelly House is a two-story wood-framed house, generally rectangular in plan and clad in textured yellow-buff brick with a flat-topped red-tiled hipped roof. An arched recessed corner entry is framed in sandstone, as is a portion of the large chimney. Many interior features survive. Built in 1926, the house has been attributed to Dr. … Read more
The Bevan House is a large two-story wood-framed house clad in buff and yellow brick. It is rectangular in plan with a red-tiled hipped roof. It has a nearly symmetrical composition of a central chimney flanked by paired windows. A projecting portico with arched entry is balanced by a roof-terraced arched loggia at opposite ends … Read more
This five-unit one-story apartment building was planned as a U around a court. The front units are designed as cross-gabled cottages. Abstract half-timbering in each gable end is in the form of an X, with a porthole vent at the intersection of the members. The buildings are of wood-framed construction with brick veneer on the … Read more
Marseline K. Moore, former manager of the Hollywood and Worth theaters in downtown Fort Worth, built on his showmanship skills when he started his outdoor advertising business. In 1949, he had this one-story building of “Texcrete” tile constructed. It has an International influence with its flat roof with overhang and large metal multiple-light windows, several … Read more
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