Commercial structures are recorded on this site as early as 1909. William Bober, a jeweler, purchased the property in 1931. Two 1931 building permits indicate that the westernmost storefront was constructed first by contractor C. M. Ingram. Later that year, two storefronts, numbers 108 and 110, were completed for Bober by builder Frank Firmin. Exchange … Read more
Allen C. Thomas, a cattle salesman for the North Texas Livestock Commission Co., purchased in 1911 the house he had rented since 1907. An unusually stylish rendition of a type common along Grand Avenue, the rectangular plan, wood- frame house has a full front porch supported by squat Tuscan columns. A hipped roof with boxed … Read more
This simple, parapeted brick structure first opened as Stock Yards Tire Shop. Now converted to other retail uses, the building is a contributor to the Fort Worth Stockyards National Register Historic District. One transom window has been sheathed and the brick surface painted, but the structure is in good condition otherwise.
Anticipating transportation needs to the new meatpacking plants, in January 1902, the Northern Texas Traction Co. extended and widened the streetcar tracks from downtown Fort Worth to the intersection of E. Exchange Avenue and Packers Avenue. The Exchange Avenue Stairs, rising up from the trolley tracks to the level of the Swift and Armour packing … Read more
One of approximately ten Bungalow style fire stations constructed by the City of Fort Worth in 1922-23, the Arlington Heights Firehall No. 18 opened October 16, 1923. Its style fits in well with the neighborhood in which it occupies a prominent corner site. Charles F. Allen, the architect of several of the other bungalow fire … Read more
This large two-story house is rectangular in plan and has a glazed green-tiled hipped roof. Walls are red brick over hollow tile. Rectangular bays project from the sides and rear. A full roof-terraced porch and terrace with cast stone balustrade extends across the front. The house was built for Andrew Jackson Long, a prominent Fort … Read more
This two and one-half story mansion is one of the largest houses on Elizabeth Boulevard. Constructed of hollow tile with brick veneer and glazed green-tiled roof, it is a symmetrical composition with flat-roofed two-story wings flanking a central hipped block. A balustraded terrace extends across the front; a wide flight of stairs leads to a … Read more
This dignified residential composition, conceived as a two-story masonry block with subtly changing planes, is capped by a hipped roof with soffited eaves and elegant stick brackets. The recessed central entry has an arched canopy supported by heavy carved brackets, surmounted, on the second story, by a handsome Palladian window panel. A porte-cochere projects to … Read more
This wood-frame diner, apparently converted from a prewar streetcar, first appears in the 1952 City Directory. This structure is in the Fort Worth Stockyards National Register Historic District.
Early ownership has not been documented clearly for this structure, which was erected c.1910. Located on W. Exchange Avenue near its major intersection with N. Main Street, the two-story brick building has housed a number of establishments. During the l920s, King’s Cafe and Jimmie’s Place occupied the street level with hotel rooms above. Morn recently, … Read more
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