Neighborhood: Stockyards Historic District

These covered hog and sheep pens stretch south from E. Exchange Avenue to Marine Creek, and were used to hold livestock during auction and prior to being slaughtered at the packing houses just to the east. In 1911 they were modernized and rebuilt at a cost of $150,000. Concrete posts, roof, firewall, and brick paving … Read more

Constructed about 1921 west of the Coliseum, to house exhibits related to the Southwestern Exposition and Fat Stock Show, this Mission Revival style building was originally used to show poultry, rabbits, and automobiles. In 1937 it was purchased by the City of Fort Worth and renovated for use as a sheep exhibit barn. A portion … Read more

In 1901, after several unsuccessful attempts to locate meatpacking firms in the area north of Fort Worth, the City of Fort Worth offered a $100,000 bonus to any meat packing concern that would set up business in the area. Two such firms, Swift & Co. and Armour & Co., both based in Chicago, answered the … Read more

This yellow brick, one-story commercial building of rectangular plan was constructed in 1946. Initially the site of Mitchell’s Store, it has been the location of Jacobson’s Bargain House, a clothing store, since 1951. When the structure reaches fifty years of age, it should be considered as a contributor to the Fort Worth Stockyards Historic District

Covered exhibit spaces for livestock seem to have existed since c. 1910 in this location, served by two spur railroad lines from the Fort Worth Belt Railway to the northeast. In 1936, the City of Fort Worth spent $183,500 to build the reinforced concrete, three-acre Cattle Exhibit Building for the 1936 Centennial Southwestern Exposition and … Read more

Responding in 1901 to an offer of $100,000 from the citizens of Fort Worth, Swift & Co. of Chicago sent its legal representatives, J.B. Googins and Alexander Cobden, into the Fort Worth area to arrange for the purchase of land and building materials. Merging with its competitors, Armour & Co., for the purpose of organization, … Read more

A building permit documents that the New Isis Theater was erected in 1935 to replace the 1914 Isis Theater. Constructed by contractor B. B. Adams at a cost of $29,800, the theater seated 920 moviegoers. The theater was managed by 3. C. Tidball. The stuccoed, reinforced concrete building with stepped parapet is distinguished by blue … Read more

This brick hotel structure on a sloping site consists of two structures built at slightly different times. To the east, a four-story block contains five bay windows. The western section is composted of one bay three stories in height and a two-story section six bays long, which fronts on Ellis Avenue. City directories indicate that … Read more

C.A. O’Keefe, vice- president of Binyon-O’Keefe Fireproof Storage and Transfer Co., and A. J. Long erected two nearly identical commercial structures between 1906 and 1910 at the major intersection in the stockyards district. Long was listed in City Directories as a stockman, and later as vice-president of American National Bank. This structure on the southwest … Read more