The history of this house is problematic. It is one of the best preserved of several stylistically similar frame houses built on Grand Avenue between 1905 and 1910, yet the residence does not appear in directories until 1929. The large, one and one-half story house features a gabled roof which slopes down to cover a … Read more
Probably taking the place of an earlier structure, this small commercial building containing two storefronts was most likely constructed in 1921, the year that G. M. Hardwick purchased the site. Directory listings of 1922 show that the North Fort Worth Fish Market and the North Main Street Market occupied the premises. A variety of retail … Read more
These marble curb markers, inscribed with the street name, exist on only a few older, prime residential streets in Fort Worth. They may have been installed as early as 1905, the year North Fort Worth Townsite Co. opened Belmont Terrace Addition for development; further research is needed to document them.
This one-story, wood-frame bungalow features spreading gable roofs supported by slender tied posts on brick bases. First residents of the houses were Marion L. and Margaret Long; he was co-owner of Yates and Long Insurance Co.
The Chase-Meacham House is two stories and clad in white glazed brick. It is rectangular in plan with a glazed green-tiled hipped roof. Situated on a corner lot, a terrace wraps around the two principal façades, covered by a full porch with Ionic columns along the front. High end piers on the porch have friezes … Read more
The Harrison-Shannon House is two stories with a generally rectangular plan and low-pitched hipped roof, clad in stucco and brick. Full porch supported by large square posts. It has banded casement windows with transoms. Ornamental glazed tile is inlaid at the tops of the posts and banded as a frieze at the eave level. The … Read more
The Peacock House is a two-story wood-framed house sheathed in smooth stucco painted white, rectangular in plan and capped by a red-tiled hipped roof with soffited eaves. Windows on the ground floor are casements set in round-arched openings; those on the second floor are double-hung and rectangular. The symmetrical front elevation features a central recessed … Read more
Built about 1906 on property owned by Z. Boaz, this three-story structure housed the Maverick Hotel; a number of restaurants and saloons occupied the commercial store fronts. Other tenants of the commercial street level during the 1920s through the 1940s included a barber, shoemaker, a liquor store, and bar. Attesting to the continuing vitality of … Read more
Covering five lots on W. Exchange Avenue, this one-story commercial structure contains six storefronts in three bays which step up the sloping site. The red-orange parapeted brick facade shows geometrically patterned frieze sections and corbelled buttresses terminating each bay. The storefront windows have been extensively altered and clad in rustic “Western” wood siding, although a … Read more
William L. Armstrong, a bookkeeper, and his son first resided in this house in 1907; the house remained in the Armstrong family until 1953. The large, two-story frame house has a one-story porch which curves around the east and south elevations to take advantage of the perspective from the Grand Avenue bluffs. The house is … Read more
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