The Armstrong House is a large two-story gabled house, rectangular in plan, with brick walls on the ground level and half-timbered stucco above. Elevated gabled rooms project from each side, with a loggia and porte-cochere at the ground level. The brick has been painted. The lot was purchased in the fall of 1912 by Zeno C. Ross, Jr., an attorney and friend of John C. Ryan. Ross is listed at this address in the 1914 city directory. The house was purchased soon after by George W. Armstrong. Armstrong, a graduate of the University of Texas, was an attorney who moved to Fort Worth in 1890. Driven by multiple ambitions, he abandoned law for cotton, oil and banking. He was president of the Texas Rolling Mills. He obtained the electric and gas franchise for Fort Worth in 1905, and established the Fort Worth Gas Company. A county judge in the 1890s, he was defeated for Congress in 1902, and never realized his dream of being governor of Texas. Armstrong was declared bankrupt in 1924, at the age of 58, and was forced to sell his house on Elizabeth Boulevard. Dr. Harold V. Johnson, a real estate developer, bought the property, transferring title to the First Methodist Episcopal Church in 1935. The house served as a parsonage until 1955. The Armstrong House is a contributing resource in the Elizabeth Boulevard Historic District (local and national).
