This large shingle-clad house was one of the last early 20th-century residences on Hemphill Street north of Rosedale. It was distinguished by a corbelled second-story bay window on the front and elaborate fanlit stairwell fenestration. The earliest recorded owner was Edgar Kerr, who worked in the State Comptroller’s Office. The house was destroyed by fire, … Read more
This one-story wood-framed gabled house has a T plan with a receding rear wing and projecting central portico. The recessed entry has curving walls sheathed in ornamental shingles. A porch flanking the rear wing has turned posts and a spindle frieze. The house has been altered by the application of asbestos shingles. It does not … Read more
This small gabled residence is distinguished by compact massing and careful detailing, particularly the shingled gable end with recessed arch. It was built c. 1904 for Willis W. Hovey, a railroad warehouse foreman.
Edwin Holmes Florist has been the sole occupant of this building since it was constructed. Located on a corner site, the one-story concrete block building has an overhanging flat roof. A large expanse of display windows faces Henderson Street and wraps around the corner to the north elevation where the entrance is located. The windows … Read more
Like its former neighbor at 822 Ash Crescent Street, this house is also one and one-half stories but has a side gabled roof with full-width inset porch supported by four Doric wood columns on brick piers. The hipped roof dormers are notable for their slightly flared eaves and Queen Anne sashes. The dormers and side … Read more
This one and one-half story wood-framed house is picturesquely composed of gabled and hipped masses and clad in horizontal wood siding and decorative shingles. A gabled portico projects from the balustraded porch, with superbly detailed wood tracery in the gable peak. Built c. 1908, the house had a succession of owners and tenants, and was … Read more
One of the major monuments of civic design in Fort Worth, the City’s main post office since its opening on Washington’s Birthday in 1933. Its site, adjacent to the Texas & Pacific terminal, was chosen to facilitate mail shipment. Groundbreaking for the $1,245,000 building was on August 11, 1931, as the railroad terminal complex neared … Read more
Ornamental streetlights, once common in American cities, are increasingly rare as new lighting technology and cheaper fixtures have been developed. Fort Worth is fortunate to retain significant numbers of ornamental standards in some of its historic neighborhoods. These fluted metal standards with bell-top luminaries were installed on four blocks of W. Broadway by the Eugene … Read more
This one-story wood-framed house has a hipped roof, forward-projecting gabled wing, and hipped porch set at the juncture. Porch posts have jigsawn brackets. Double-hung windows have simple wood cornices. Jeremiah Deems, a bartender, is listed as residing at this address in the 1899-1900 through the 1907-08 city directories, as a renter. The house changed hands … Read more
The Hovey House is a one-story dwelling with a partial second story and rectangular plan. It is constructed of brick on the ground level with half-timbered stucco on a wood frame above. A long gabled slope extends forward over a recessed porch, flanked by a cross-gabled two-story section. The house was built c. 1912 for … Read more
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