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
Arthur Albert Messer (1863-1934), later a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects, practiced architecture in Texas from about 1888 through 1898. He was first a partner with Fort Worth architect A. J. Armstrong; the firm of Armstrong and Messer was responsible for a number of commercial structures, as well as the Texas Spring … Read more
Commissioned by Amon Carter, Sr., the statue of Will Rogers on his horse, Soapsuds, was completed in 1941- 42 by Electra Waggoner (Mrs. John Biggs). Facing west, the equestrian statue was unveiled by General Dwight D. Eisenhower on November 4, 194 7. On a low stone base, the statue graces the square in front of … Read more
Peter Jenkins, a highly successful clothing manufacturer who arrived in Fort Worth in 1910, purchased this property in the new Arlington Heights subdivision in 1922 (4630 Collinwood Avenue). Neighborhood reminiscences indicate that this pair of houses was built for Jenkins’s children; city tax records seem to bear this out, showing that Clotilda Biccochi Jenkins owned … Read more
River Crest Addition and River Crest Country Club were developed by the River Crest Company, led by David T. Bomar, John W. Broad, and a number of other community leaders. Platted in June 1911, construction on the first buildings in River Crest began later that same year. David T. Bomar and his brother William, the … Read more
Arlington Heights Methodist Church was formally organized in 1923. Continuing growth of the congregation led to the 1928-29 construction of the Religious Education Building which housed church services until 1951. Of buff brick with cast-stone trim, the Tudor Revival structure stands two stories over a high basement. Steeply pitched cross gables and gabled wall dormers … 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
Typical of many growing church congregations, Ridglea United Methodist church underwent a series of building campaigns between 1943 and 1965. The church site, however, retains a remarkable visual history of all of its sanctuary structures. Although moved . across Locke Avenue, the original 1943 church remains, a simple gabled structure of wood-frame construction. The 1947 … Read more
Ahavath Sholom, Fort Worth’s first Jewish Orthodox congregation, was formed in 1892. Emanuel Hebrew Rest, the first Jewish burial ground, was established in the South Side in 1879. Six acres for a second burial ground were acquired on the West Side in 1909. An entrance is formed by two rusticated limestone pedestals supporting a metal-screened … Read more
The congregation of Christ the King Episcopal Church was established as a mission from All Saints Episcopal Church (5001 Crestline Road) in 1953. Needing larger quarters by 1975, the congregation acquired a 1907 Methodist church from Parker County. The church structure, used at the time as a hay barn, was moved to the present site … Read more
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