This large, one and one-half story house is set back on an expansive bluff-top site overlooking the West Fork of the Trinity River and Fort Worth to the east. Of irregular rectangular plan, the house is a design by architect Joseph J. Patterson, who designed a number of Westover Hills houses for Byrne & Luther, Inc.; construction was done by the latter firm. In an eclectic Colonial Georgian Revival style, the dwelling is clad in painted brick veneer and is composed of two offset, steeply pitched gables containing the entry. The central section is flanked by an arcaded wing and servants’ quarters on the south and a one-story open porch on the north. The cast stone portico supported by Ionic columns is surmounted by a large Palladian window with wrought iron balcony. The house was the residence of PeverilO. Settle, Sr. and his wife Helen, until 1981; Mr. Settle was a lawyer for Gulf Oil Corporation.
