1204 W. Seventh Street [Auto], Packard-Scruggs Co./Packard-Fort Worth Co./Fort Worth Motors, Inc./H.B. Ransom Motor Co., c. 1925. One of four automobile sales and service buildings from the 1920s along this stretch of W Seventh Street, this building was first home to Packard Scruggs Co., a Packard dealership managed by A.G. Fisher. Renamed the Packard-Fort Worth Co. after its first year in business, the firm operated here through 1929. A series of dealerships handling Packard and Graham motor cars located here through the mid-1930s when H.B. Ransom opened Fort Worth Motors, Inc. here and sold Chrysler and Plymouth automobiles. About 1945 the name of the business was changed to H.B. Ransom Motor Co., and it operated at this location through the late 1960s. The vaguely Renaissance-Baroque decoration enlivens an otherwise functionally designed building. Although the brick has been painted, the building is well maintained. It still houses an automotive service facility. The building is a contributor to the proposed Automobile Row Thematic Group.
