The Armstrong House is a large two-story gabled house, rectangular in plan, with brick walls on the ground level and half-timbered stucco above. Elevated gabled rooms project from each side, with a loggia and porte-cochere at the ground level. The brick has been painted. The lot was purchased in the fall of 1912 by Zeno … Read more
This house was built in 1917 for Charles H. Steele, vice president of the American National Bank and later an investment broker, who resided here for 25 years. The two-story house is of wood-framed construction with a veneer of fine polychrome red brick trimmed in white cast stone. A staggered plan incorporates a front portico, … Read more
The Bomar Apartments is a three-story structure and is rectangular in plan. It is wood-framed with a veneer of ochre brick. A two-story brick portico extends across the front, with a third story of wood construction. Built c. 1920, the apartments were listed in city directories variously as the “Bomar,” “Bonner” and “Banner Apartments.” The … Read more
The Fort Worth Stock Yards Co. contracted with the Topeka Bridge and Land Co. in 1910 to construct two buildings on the recently completed Marine Creek Bridge. This two-store commercial building features a diagonal corner entrance topped by a semicircular transom window; four similar arched windows continue along the E. Exchange Avenue elevation. Missionesque parapets … Read more
The front elevation of this two-story brick structure presents a cutaway corner entrance and storefront windows with transoms above. On the second floor, four arched windows are surmounted by a corbelled frieze; corner piers project above the parapet. Early ownership is unclear. James F. Dill, grocer, is the first known tenant. William T. Stanford housed … Read more
This two-story building was constructed in 1918 as Hickman and Clark Drugs on corner property owned by L. B. “Alonzo” Clark. Frank J. Singleton was the architect and R. M. Thompson is listed as the builder in the mechanics lien. A number of drugstores have carried on business at the site since 1930, and during … Read more
This narrow, two-story commercial structure with a stepped parapet features a cast-stone coping and geometric facade ornament above its much-altered storefront. Clad in dark red brick, the building was erected in 1919 by Muse and Gurley for Louis Lehman’s Dry Goods Co. Later occupants included an auto tires firm and a cafe. Furnished rooms for … Read more
J. Marvin Leonard, president of Leonard Brothers Department Store, purchased several lots facing River Crest Country Club in 1935. The large house, constructed in 1936, is faced in warm orange brick with a hipped roof of polychrome slate. Important features of the Tudor Revival structure are the arched entry flanked by a two-story cross- gabled … Read more
The very popular Tudor Revival style began in the 1890s and was adopted by both high and middle class home builders in many of America’s suburbs during the first 40 years of the 20th century. The form and style are reflected primarily in the highly pitched and sweeping roof line. Built in about 1929 in … Read more
The Parsons House is a two-story gabled buff brick house with gabled portico and walled terrace. Built in 1921 for Edward V. Parsons, president of Anaonian Petroleum Co., the house was owned from 1947 to 1955 by Leo Potishman, a well-known Fort Worth businessman and philanthropist. The Parsons House is a contributing resource in the … Read more
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