This rambling Mediterranean-style house is clad in white stucco with red tile roofs. It was built c. 1927 for Joe Maxwell, who traded the house, to C. O. Collins for an oil lease following the Stock Market crash of October, 1929. Both were prominent oil men. Kay Kimbell, grain magnate and arts patron, purchased the … Read more
This substantial two-story residence was designed by Fort Worth architect Joseph R. Pelich and constructed by H. A. Mangham in 1930 for oilman R. A. Bristol. The house is picturesquely massed of interlocking hipped and gabled forms, with multicolored brick walls and slate roof. Partial half-timbering on the second story, a Tudor-arched entry and a … Read more
This one-story bungalow-style fire station is constructed of brick with shallow-pitched hipped roof. A hipped porch projects forward, supported by clusters of bracketed wood posts on battered brick piers. This was one of about ten such fire stations built in Fort Worth in 1922 and 1923, designed to complement residential neighborhoods, three of which have … Read more
This early reinforced concrete factory was built in 1911 for the Miller Manufacturing Co., producers of work clothes. It is a rectangular structure, two stories in height, with a loading dock along the front. Concrete tiles clad the façade in the manner of coursed masonry. Narrow double-hung windows light both floors. The Miller Mfg. Co. … Read more
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen was founded in 1873. Trinity Lodge No. 83 of the BLF&E, organized in 1882, erected a meeting hall on this site in 1885. It shared the building with other railroad unions. The existing two-story brick structure was erected c. 1910. The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen merged … Read more
This large Gothic Revival structure, designed by Hedrick & Stanley and erected between 1949 and 1952, is the fourth church building to occupy this site. The congregation was organized on December 31, 1882, adopting the name South Side Baptist Church. In 1886 the fellowship erected a wood-framed building on this site and changed its name … Read more
Beth-El congregation, organized in 1902 with 43 founding members, was the first in Fort Worth to adhere to the tenets of Reform Judaism. By 1908 a temple had been erected downtown on Fifth and Taylor. The present site was purchased in 1919 and the existing temple completed in the fall of 1920. The builder was … Read more
George B. Monnig, co-founder with his brother, William, of Monnig’s Department Store, had a house built on this site in 1905. This house was destroyed in the great fire of April 3, 1909, which consumed 20 blocks in the Southside. The Monnigs erected the existing residence on the same site, residing here through the 1940s. … Read more
Each of these two identical wood-framed houses has a shotgun plan, hipped roof and a full porch recessed beneath the front end of the hip. The houses were built as rental units by plumber Robert C. Hansen, Jr. in 1941, at a cost of $500 each, and are virtually identical to a duplex he built … 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
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