This brick hotel structure on a sloping site consists of two structures built at slightly different times. To the east, a four-story block contains five bay windows. The western section is composted of one bay three stories in height and a two-story section six bays long, which fronts on Ellis Avenue. City directories indicate that … Read more
C.A. O’Keefe, vice- president of Binyon-O’Keefe Fireproof Storage and Transfer Co., and A. J. Long erected two nearly identical commercial structures between 1906 and 1910 at the major intersection in the stockyards district. Long was listed in City Directories as a stockman, and later as vice-president of American National Bank. This structure on the southwest … Read more
This fine Shingle style house of one and one-half stories features a roof line which slopes down to form a one-story entry porch supported by square posts clad in shingles. A dormer window with a round balcony porch and conical roof rises out of the sloping front roof, flanked by a shingled, hipped dormer on … Read more
A building permit documents that the New Isis Theater was erected in 1935 to replace the 1914 Isis Theater. Constructed by contractor B. B. Adams at a cost of $29,800, the theater seated 920 moviegoers. The theater was managed by 3. C. Tidball. The stuccoed, reinforced concrete building with stepped parapet is distinguished by blue … Read more
Fort Worth Stock Yards Sign and Marine Creek Bridge, 1910. A major improvement to the street, the Topeka Bridge & Land Co. constructed the Exchange Avenue bridge across Marine Creek and the Fort Worth Stock Yards sign for the Fort Worth Stock Yards Co., the property owners. Built for the grand opening on March 14, … Read more
This small, one-story commercial row contains six storefronts roofed in Mission tile and separated by parapeted brick piers. James P. Elliott, a contractor and first owner of the site, may have constructed the row about 1926. Early tenants included a cafe, barbershop, beauty shop and cleaners; similar concerns have located in the building since that … Read more
1021 Elizabeth Boulevard, Couch-Sanders House, c. 1914. The large two-story brick Couch-Sanders House is rectangular in plan with a hipped roof and full porch. A central gabled portico with arched entry flanked by engaged Tuscan columns is visually reinforced by a massive Missionesque dormer. The front terrace extends to the east side of the house … Read more
Bill B. McHarg & Co. designed and built this house for May Pearl McDonald Flint, the young widow of prominent African American banker William Madison McDonald, and her second husband, Clarence W. Flint, Jr. It was constructed on the site of McDonald’s two-story Classical Revival mansion. The new house embraced the modern trends of the … Read more
This house was built in 1926 by Clarence Epperly for John F. Grammer, a dentist. It has been owned since 1948 by the Martin family. The two-story brick veneer house has a hipped roof, full front terrace and an arched portico supported by Tuscan columns. The Grammer-Martin House is no longer owned by a member … Read more
Built in 1939, the Exchange Hotel was run by Leo H. Koestler. This Moderne style structure is of yellow hollow-tile construction with yellow brick trim. The front elevation features a deeply recessed central entry with a decorative aluminum grille. In fine original condition, the hotel remains in the Koestler family. It is within the Fort … Read more
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