Thomas B. Yarbrough, a businessman and vice-president of the First National Bank of Fort Worth, and his wife, Glenn Halsell Yarbrough, moved to the area in 1907. They purchased in 1921 three adjoining lots on the bluff overlooking the West Fork of the Trinity River. The Fort Worth architectural firm of Clarkson and Gaines and contractor, Harry B. Friedman, were commissioned to construct the Yarbrough house. Mrs. Yarbrough occupied the house until her death in 1975. Of light buff brick with a red-tiled hip roof, the Yarbrough house is in the Mediterranean style. The H-plan, two-story house features a central entry flanked by two projecting end bays with french doors. The central entry limestone surrounds support a classical corbeled entablature under a ledge for the second-story balcony. Ornate wrought-iron gates are a prominent original feature of the central and wing entries; however, the wrought-iron balcony is a later addition. Changes to the house include the enclosing of the rear arcaded porch and the addition of louvered, non-functional shutters to the first and second-story windows. The Yarbrough House was awarded a Texas Historical Marker in 1983.
