70 801 Grove Street [NR*/WSHD(NR)], Montgomery Ward & Co./Fakes & Co. Warehouse/Tindall Record Storage Warehouse, c. 1911; c. 1980s. This handsome five-story brick building was built about 1911 to house Montgomery Ward and Company’s mail order and catalog goods operation. Wards used this facility until 1924, when they moved into the old Fort Worth Chevrolet Assembly Plant on W. Seventh St. Fakes & Co., a furniture store, had their warehouse here from 1924 until 1966. Since that time the building has housed both a paper company and an appliance sales firm. Since 1981, Tindall Record Storage has occupied the structure. The simple red brick rectangular building is enlivened by a polychromatic brick corbelled cornice with a central parapet above the corbelled course. The original windows have been replaced by single-pane fixed metal windows. The Montgomery Ward & Co. building may be eligible for the National Register on the basis of its architectural design following restoration of the original window configuration. It is also a contributor to the potential Warehouse South National Register Historic District.
