This two-story brick-veneer house with hipped roof and full front portico appears to have been built on speculation by the John C. Ryan Land Co., in 1918. It was sold to contractor Robert Walker in December of that year. Walker sold the house in turn to Edward K. Collett in March, 1921. Collett was an … Read more
Covered exhibit spaces for livestock seem to have existed since c. 1910 in this location, served by two spur railroad lines from the Fort Worth Belt Railway to the northeast. In 1936, the City of Fort Worth spent $183,500 to build the reinforced concrete, three-acre Cattle Exhibit Building for the 1936 Centennial Southwestern Exposition and … Read more
Responding in 1901 to an offer of $100,000 from the citizens of Fort Worth, Swift & Co. of Chicago sent its legal representatives, J.B. Googins and Alexander Cobden, into the Fort Worth area to arrange for the purchase of land and building materials. Merging with its competitors, Armour & Co., for the purpose of organization, … Read more
This one and one-half story, rectangular plan house is set parallel to the street and takes advantage of the prospect to the west; a sloping gable roof covers the full entry porch. Aloysius G. Donovan, a manager for Southwestern Mechanical Co., was the first tenant of the wood-frame rental house in 1907. It is a … Read more
This yellow brick, one-story commercial building of rectangular plan was constructed in 1946. Initially the site of Mitchell’s Store, it has been the location of Jacobson’s Bargain House, a clothing store, since 1951. When the structure reaches fifty years of age, it should be considered as a contributor to the Fort Worth Stockyards Historic District
Streetlights were probably installed at the same time that the City of Fort Worth put a “White Way System” along N. Main Street in 1923. Still serving their purpose well, most of the lights along Park Street have ovoid glass globes above faceted marbelite shafts; a few have metal poles.
A cornerstone and tax records indicate that this church was initially constructed in 1922 as Arlington Heights Presbyterian Church. A reading room was added in 1955. Ownership of the site passed to Partners in Prayer, Inc. in 1965; the First Church of Christ Scientist relocated in 1976 to this site. The polychrome brick- veneer church … Read more
Situated on a conspicuous corner lot at the east end of Elizabeth Blvd., this is one of the most imposing residences on a street celebrated for large, elaborate houses. It is a two-story masonry pile veneered in fine pale brown brick, rectangular in plan with lustrous green-tiled hipped roof. The symmetrical front elevation has projecting … Read more
The Munchus House is a two-story wood-framed resdence clad in narrow siding, rectangular in plan with gabled roof. A shed-roofed porch extends across the front, becoming a gabled porte-cochere to the west, supported by clusters of wood posts on high brick piers; gables are set over the entry and driveway. Applied half-timbering in the gables, … Read more
Judge R. Bruce Young, of the 48th Judicial District, had this house built in 1922 and lived here until c. 1930. It is a two-story brick veneer structure, severely composed as a rectangular block with overhanging hipped roof and central portico. Windows are double hung and grouped in precise rectangular panels. The house has had … Read more
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