Neighborhood: Stockyards Historic District

This simple, parapeted brick structure first opened as Stock Yards Tire Shop. Now converted to other retail uses, the building is a contributor to the Fort Worth Stockyards National Register Historic District. One transom window has been sheathed and the brick surface painted, but the structure is in good condition otherwise.

Commercial structures are recorded on this site as early as 1909. William Bober, a jeweler, purchased the property in 1931. Two 1931 building permits indicate that the westernmost storefront was constructed first by contractor C. M. Ingram. Later that year, two storefronts, numbers 108 and 110, were completed for Bober by builder Frank Firmin. Exchange … Read more

Probably taking the place of an earlier structure, this small commercial building containing two storefronts was most likely constructed in 1921, the year that G. M. Hardwick purchased the site. Directory listings of 1922 show that the North Fort Worth Fish Market and the North Main Street Market occupied the premises. A variety of retail … Read more

This wood-frame diner, apparently converted from a prewar streetcar, first appears in the 1952 City Directory. This structure is in the Fort Worth Stockyards National Register Historic District.

Early ownership has not been documented clearly for this structure, which was erected c.1910. Located on W. Exchange Avenue near its major intersection with N. Main Street, the two-story brick building has housed a number of establishments. During the l920s, King’s Cafe and Jimmie’s Place occupied the street level with hotel rooms above. Morn recently, … Read more

First listed in the 1911 directory, this structure housed a feed warehouse, dry goods store, and a Wells Fargo Express Co. branch. Other tenants through the years included shoemakers, doctors, a disinfectant company, a saloon and a rooming house. Stockyards Lodge No. 1244 was chartered December 8, 1927; their first Masonic hail was located in … Read more

Built about 1906 on property owned by Z. Boaz, this three-story structure housed the Maverick Hotel; a number of restaurants and saloons occupied the commercial store fronts. Other tenants of the commercial street level during the 1920s through the 1940s included a barber, shoemaker, a liquor store, and bar. Attesting to the continuing vitality of … Read more

Covering five lots on W. Exchange Avenue, this one-story commercial structure contains six storefronts in three bays which step up the sloping site. The red-orange parapeted brick facade shows geometrically patterned frieze sections and corbelled buttresses terminating each bay. The storefront windows have been extensively altered and clad in rustic “Western” wood siding, although a … Read more

Faced in brown brick, this two-story structure features a corbeled frieze course, ornate window surrounds, and a pressed metal cornice below a cast-stone cartouche on its second-story facade. The street level retains its diamond-paned transom windows, although the storefronts have been altered. Original ownership and history of this structure has not been documented clearly. According … Read more