The Ambler House is a two-story wood-framed dwelling, rectangular in plan, clad in rusticated ochre brick, with a bracketed hipped roof sheathed in glazed green tile. Regularly spaced rectangular windows have cast stone sills and lintels. A walled terrace originally extended over the full front porch, accessible from the second story by a recessed vestibule … Read more
This one and one-half story wood-framed house, with a rectangular plan and gabled roof, is clad in clapboard below and shingled above. Built c. 1908, the house appears to be the work of a talented builder, with a full porch grafted onto the front gable slope, surmounted by a gabled dormer balcony. A small semi-circular … Read more
The Fort Worth Recreation Building is a gabled red-brick structure, rectangular in plan, with steel-sash windows, some of which have been enclosed by brick. The height of a two-story building, the interior is a high single story. Designed by E. W. Van Slyke & Co., the building was erected by the City of Fort Worth … Read more
Allen Avenue Baptist Church was established after World War I as an outgrowth of a Baptist mission founded by a Mr. Ellison. The present appearance of the church building probably dates from a major remodeling in 1928 by architect H. D. Withers. (It resembles closely Calvary Baptist Church, designed by Withers about the same time; … Read more
This large Gothic Revival structure, designed by Hedrick & Stanley and erected between 1949 and 1952, is the fourth church building to occupy this site. The congregation was organized on December 31, 1882, adopting the name South Side Baptist Church. In 1886 the fellowship erected a wood-framed building on this site and changed its name … Read more
This simple L-plan wood-framed house was built c. 1900. Its tenants have included an evangelist, a chauffer and a librarian. This house has been demolished.
On November 6, 1905, Swedish Lutherans in Fort Worth signed a charter and organized at the Wells Mission Hall, originally conducting services in Swedish. In 1906 the members purchased a lot on Hemphill and Broadway and commissioned architect Conrad Hoeffler to design a church building. Insufficient funds delayed construction until 1912. The contractor was R. … Read more
The Barbour House is a one-story wood-framed bungalow with staggered plan and interlocking gabled roofs adorned with stick brackets under the wide eaves. An offset cross-gabled porch has rubblestone base and piers. Windows are double hung, some with small panes. The house was built c. 1919 for David Barbour, a stonemason, and stayed in the … Read more
The Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad constructed this roundhouse and machine shop in 1929, on the site of older service tracks and repair pits. The structure, located in extensive railroad yards east of Main Street, is of reinforced concrete and brick construction, with large panels of steel sash windows. In plan, it is a quarter circle. Built at … Read more
. In 1926 James Nathan Baker, Sr. and his wife, Ransome Antoinette, opened Fort Worth’s first funeral home for African Americans in a two-story house owned by Mr. Baker’s father, the Reverend Henry Baker, founder of Baker’s Chapel AME Church. As the business grew, the building was expanded in the 1930s. Baker founded the Diamond … Read more
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