The first commercial tenant of this building was the Ashby and Dill Grocery. By the twenties the ground floor had changed hands, and a variety of businesses located here for the next sixty years. Originally the second-floor residential space was occupied by Mrs. Sally E. Smith’s Boarding House, and during the 1920s by a boarding … Read more
All but one lot of this block was purchased in 1915 by D. Hart and Sons, a livestock firm (2629 N Main Street). By 1925 the structure housed the Stock Yards Co. Carpenter Shop, which remained there until the 1950s. The two-story, industrial structure has a stuccoed concrete first floor elevation below a brick second … Read more
The National Feeders’ and Breeders’ Show, now called the Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show, was held before 1908 at various outdoor sites on the North Side. The Fort Worth Stock Yards Co. planned a permanent home for the show in 1907. The construction of the exposition building was financed by the Stock Yards Co., which … Read more
This three-story hotel structure with first-floor commercial spaces appears in the 1911 City Directory as Cody House, William Cody, proprietor. During the l920s, Mrs. L. C. Brown ran her Hotel Brown No. 2 here; Hereford Hotel located here in 1936. A variety of commercial establishments have carried on business in the street-level shops. The upper … Read more
Dominick Hart purchased most of this block bounded by N. Main, NW. 27th, NW 26th Streets and Ellis Avenue in 1915 (2601 N Main Street). His livestock firm D. Hart and Sons, seems to have operated as an independent competitor to the large Stock Yards Co. This two-story, L-plan building, set on a sloping site, … Read more
Replacing an earlier entrance to the Coliseum, the present ticket office was constructed in 1941 by contractor Harry B. Friedman. In a harmonious Mission Revival style, the two-story small building of rectangular plan features stucco Missionesque parapets over a one-story brick arcade. Early photographs indicate that the roofs of the two-story block, the arcade, and … Read more
This handsomely detailed, two-story brick structure is first listed in the 1909-10 City Directory. The first floor housed the Stock Yards Branch of the Fort Worth Post Office and the upper level was a boarding house. E. F. Melton Grocery later shared the street level premises. Later occupants of the second story included the Exchange … Read more
All but one lot of this block was purchased in 1915 by D. Hart and Sons, a livestock firm (2629 N Main Street). By 1925 the structure housed the Stock Yards Co. Carpenter Shop, which remained there until the 1950s. The two-story, industrial structure has a stuccoed concrete first floor elevation below a brick second … Read more
Built by the Fort Worth Stock Yards Co. to complement the Live Stock Exchange building in style, the horse and mule barns were designed by the architectural firm of Klipstein and Rathmann and built by James Stewart and Co., contractors. The barns are constructed of brick, with the E. Exchange Avenue façade sheathed in roughcast … Read more
Organized in 1937, the Washington Heights Assembly of God congregation moved to this site in 1938; at this time the name was changed to North Side Assembly of God. A frame structure was demolished when the present Evangelistic Tabernacle was erected in 1950. Operated more recently as Fort Worth Gospel Opry with a bookstore and … Read more