This late example of a bungalow court consists of four identical gabled cottages clad in clapboard, with vaguely Colonial Revival detailing, set loosely along a grassy common. The houses were built in 1937 according to the tax assessor’s records.
The Odum House is a one-story wood-framed dweling, rectangular in plan, with a hipped roof and full recessed porch supported by paired posts. A gable projects forward over the entry, with applied half-timbering and decorative barge-board. The house was built c. 1910 and first occupied by Richard A. Spiecker, chief dispatcher for the Chicago Rock … Read more
The Carrell House is a gabled one-story wood-framed house with a small perpendicular hipped rear wing and flat-roofed porch set in the angle. Detailing is simple, including plain window surrounds, boxed porch posts and a band of sawtooth shingles in the front gable end. One of a pair of identical cottages built c. 1905, the … Read more
The Tudor Revival style Fairmount Apartments consist of two mirror-image buildings flanking a court, with garages at the rear. Each building has a rectangular plan, gabled roof, and cross-gabled end bays. Walls are brick veneer. Sandstone veneer is applied to a portion of the front wall, surmounted by a slightly cantilevered gabled bay, half-timbered with … Read more
See 1310 Alston Avenue. The Jackson House was moved to that location in 2005.
This two-story wood-framed house has a hipped roof and gabled bays projecting to the front and side. Roof eaves flare to create wide overhangs under-girded with decorative brackets. A curving porch supported by Tuscan columns wraps around the front and south side. The house was built c. 1908 for Samuel Simon, a notary public. Mrs. … Read more
One of the premier residential landmarks of Fort Worth, Thistle Hill is the most impressive surviving mansion of the “cattle baron” era, sited conspicuously at the end of Summit Avenue. The main wing of the house is a two and one-half story gambreled mass with flanking semi-circular bays. Tall chimneys and an immense portico with … Read more
Two engineering projects from the 1930s intended to separate automobile and railroad rights-of-way and facilitate traffic on a major Southside artery. The reinforced concrete underpass was designed by engineers of the M-K-T Railroad and the City of Fort Worth; the cost of construction — approximately $125,000 — was shared by the railroad and the city. … Read more
According to Judith Singer Cohen’s book, Cowtown Moderne (1988), the Dr. Pepper Bottling Company building was the largest monolithic concrete structure in Fort Worth at the time of its completion. Hubert Hammond Crane’s design for the building was influenced by European Functionalists architects. The contractor was Thomas S. Byrnes. Before alterations, the building was regarded … Read more
This three-story brick icehouse is rectangular in plan with a flat roof. The brick bearing walls recede at each floor level, expressive of reduced loads. Heavy brick buttressing reinforces exterior walls. Records are unclear, but it appears that this building was erected c. 1926 for the Shaw Brothers Creamery Co., manufacturers of ice, ice cream … Read more
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