Prominent local businessmen, civic leaders and other Fort Worth Citizens took part in Ku Klux Klan activities during the 1920s. The group met at various churches, schools and at their “stockade” on the South Side. May, 1924 saw the ceremonial laying of a cornerstone by Klavern No. 101 of the Realm of Texas for an auditorium at this N. Main St. site. The Klan Hall was financed by the American Building Corporation, a stock company entirely subscribed to locally; the cost was estimated to be $50,000. Architect of the structure was Earl Glasgow; contracting work was completed by B . B. Adams.
On November 5, 1924, the auditorium was bombed and burned at a loss of $70,000. A Klan spokesman announced soon after that plans were under way to build a greater and costlier building. The new auditorium presumably was constructed in the same design; covering an area of 100 by 200 feet, it seated 4,000. Of red brick, hollow file and steel construction, the hall is faced in variegated buff-yellow brick. Below the high peaked parapet, a central arched niche with formal base is flanked by tall arched windows. On the ground floor, a central tripartite entry is surrounded by large rectangular windows with cast-stone trim; these originally were concession stands. Buttress piers and tall arched windows rhythmically alternate down the sides of the structure; at the east end a raised, flat-roofed area once contained a stage. Leonard Brothers Department Store purchased the structure in 1931 for use as a warehouse, and by the mid-1930s, the building was used as Fox and Fox Boxing Arena. Since 1946 the Ellis Pecan Co. has used the structure for its pecan processing operations. The imposing structure on the N. Main Street streetscape has undergone considerable interior alterations. On the exterior, the only changes appear to be a small addition on the north side and a metal awning on the west front. The auditorium seems to qualify for National Register listing.