Architect Charles Barnett of Dallas designed this house for James B. Baker in 1928. Mr. Baker was president of Baker Brothers Co., nurserymen and florists. Baker’s company grew flowers in several large greenhouses in Riverside and maintained two hundred acres east of Fort Worth for the general nursery business. Mr. Baker’s descendants operate the company … Read more
Well suited to its corner site, this irregular V-plan house has receding wings which enclose a garden to the rear. The dwelling is a successful combination of Colonial Revival and Ranch styles. A one and one-half story saltbox, clad in shingles, the house features a framed overhang with pendants to form a cutaway entry porch. … Read more
In 1887, L. P. Robertson established a funeral business in downtown Fort Worth. The firm moved to several downtown locations before moving to 1326 Pennsylvania Avenue (now Margaret Meacham Hall of the Fort Worth Woman’s Club, see separate entry for that address) in 1929. In 1921 Fred Muellar became a partner and E. C. Harper … Read more
This prominently sited house was built about 1935; Guy L. Waggoner, president of Waggoner-Daniel & Co. and W. T. Waggoner & Sons was the first resident, although he evidently lived here only a short time. William T. Waggoner, Jr., and wife Elise resided in the house until 1942, when oil operator E Kirk Johnson purchased … Read more
This large school opened for the 1937 fall term. Funded by the W.P.A. at a cost of $333,000, the school was designed by the local architect Preston M. Geren; contracting work was completed by Butcher and Sweeney. The red brick Georgian Revival structure is a symmetrical composition of a central three-story gable roofed block flanked … Read more
Built during the booming 1920s when the demand for apartments was high, this two-story red brick example has a low-pitched hipped roof with a centered hipped attic dormer vent. The building was constructed in a mix of Colonial Revival and Bungalow styles. The Colonial Revival style is revealed through the symmetrically composed façade; the Bungalow … Read more
Set in the midst of one of the most exclusive residential developments in Texas, Westover Hills Town Hall was designed in a revival of the Georgian Colonial style adopted by the eighteenth-century Virginia gentry. The $108,847.39 Works Progress Administration project was completed in 1940; at the formal opening and dedication ceremony on 7 November 1940, … Read more
Thomas A. Miller acquired this Crestmount Addition property in 1920, and resided at this address from 1924 to about 1939. Miller was vice-president of American National Petroleum Co. and later went into real estate investments. The two-story house is veneered in red brick and has a hip roof clad in red tile. The symmetrical, Colonial … Read more
This one and one-half-story house is constructed of rusticated concrete block on the ground level. The gabled second story is wood-framed with stuccoed end-walls and a large gambreled side dormer. Detailing includes cast stone window surrounds and a pair of unusual hooded oval windows. The first recorded owner was Thomas W. Slack, a bank cashier … Read more
This prominent, two and one-half story house, faced in brick painted white, is designed in a Colonial Revival style suggestive of Mount Vernon. The design was the work of architect Victor Marr Curtis for Byrne & Luther, Inc.. A full, two-story, shed-roofed portico stretches across the front elevation, supported by six monumental boxed columns; above … Read more
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