North Fort Worth High School was the second school built by the Fort Worth Independent School District after the North Side was partially annexed in 1909. The school accommodated the influx of students whose parents had come to work in the Swift and Armour plants in the North Side. From 1937 to 1955, the structure served as Technical High School; in 1955 it became an annex to the I. P. Elder Middle School (709 NW 21st Street). Architects Sanguinet and Staats were influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright and Louis Sullivan in their striking design for the school. Contractor J. C. Buchanan was responsible for construction of the two and a half story, polychrome brick school.
The generally rectangular plan with blocky, modernistic elevation features a projecting central mass with entrances in both recessed side wings. The central mass contains seven window bays separated by a stylized colonnade. Ornament is provided by three base relief eagles in frieze medallions, stylized floral capitals on the colonnade and base relief open books above the end piers. The school has been altered by the lowering of interior ceilings and partial enclosing of windows, but is otherwise intact. A stone retaining wall and stairs were added by the Works Progress Administration between 1935 and 1937.