This two-story frame house, clad in narrow-milled wood siding, features a hip roof and an offset, front projecting gabled bay; these are elements typical of turn of the century vernacular house design. A firm history cannot be established for the house until the 1920s. The original porch columns on the full front porch have been … Read more
Harry E. and Elizabeth M. Brants owned a large farmstead tract in the West side; the area was later broken up to form Ridglea Country Club. Brants, of the Brants Co., a real estate and insurance firm, commissioned architect Hubert Hammond Crane to design a ten-room, wood-frame family residence in 1937. Earl North Parker, secretary-treasurer … Read more
Built as West Side High School in 1922, shifting area population changed the name and use of this structure to Van Zandt School No. 30, serving the elementary grades, in 1923. The cornerstone was laid in a ceremony March 31, 1922, and the school opened for classes the following fall. Containing thirteen classrooms, a cafeteria, … Read more
Etna Nadine Diehl purchased this lot in the new Ridglea addition in 1932; construction of the house probably occurred quickly, as she was listed as residing here with her husband, Arthur A. Diehl, the same year. The one-story house features steeply pitched cross gables clad in slate; polychrome sandstone veneer and half-timbered stucco cladding give … Read more
This eclectic house successfully combines a number of materials in an asymmetrical composition to project an image of a historic period. Architect Charles Armstrong is responsible for the design. Contractor Morris L. Swartzberg and mason Eugene Sergi constructed the house, built in 1939-40 for Woodrow “Woody” Holmes, an independent oilman. The gabled one- story house … Read more
Earl E. Baidridge, a prominent Fort Worth financier and head of Fort Worth Savings Bank and Trust Co., purchased, in 1913, ten lots along Crestline Road, containing 120 acres. The Baldridge House has been attributed to the prominent architectural firm of Sanguinet and Staats. Passing out of Baldridge ownership in 1915, the property has changed … Read more
Organized from a mission begun in 1946, All Saints’ Episcopal Church acquired this triangular lot in 1947. Construction of the present church took place in two phases. In June, 1949, construction began on the parish hall, a long gabled structure of dressed Lueders limestone with a half timbered gabled portico in the Tudor Revival style. … Read more
Henry W. Williams, founder of a wholesale drug company and a prominent banker, arrived in Fort Worth in 1884. Purchasing a parcel of 28 acres on the ridge overlooking the West Fork of the Trinity River in 1907, Williams and his family were first listed at this address in 1909. John Roby Penn purchased the … Read more
John P. King sewed several terms as county clerk, was director of Fort Worth National Bank and Fort Worth Power and Light Co., in 1898 organized Southern Ice and Cold Storage Co., and founded King Candy Co. in 1906. In 1927, King purchased a lot on the west side of River Crest Country Club and … Read more
This large house was built for Benjamin O. Smith, president of Farmers’ and Mechanics’ National Bank, who moved to Fort Worth in 1884. Smith began construction of his house on a site overlooking the West Fork of the Trinity River immediately following the 1910-11 development of the River Crest Country Club and adjacent area. In … Read more