This two-story yellow brick house, with parapeted flat roof and canopy-like eave, was designed and built in 1913 by B. G. Leake, a Fort Worth architect and civil engineer. The original owner (through the 1930s) was Howard W. Peak, owner of a safe company. Peak, a well-known amateur historian, was reputedly the first white child … Read more
The two-story wood-framed Sparks House is sheathed in clapboard painted white, with boxy massing and a flaring hipped roof. A full hipped portico is supported by brick piers. A cantilevered stairwell bay projects from the west wall. The roof has soffited eaves, a central hipped dormer and spikey finials. The interior has extensive oak paneling … Read more
The Connell House is a very large two-story structure faced in red brick with cast stone trim and green-tiled roof. It has a symmetrical composition of hipped central block flanked by recessed hipped wings. An expansive balustraded terrace extends across the front, with central roof-terraced portico. Transomed floor-length windows open onto the terrace; those flanking … Read more
A large two-story L-plan residence, the Hoffer-Hulen House is clad in smooth stucco, with glazed green-tiled hipped and gabled roofs. A covered terrace with Tuscan columns and hipped roof fills the angle of the two wings. The house is a picturesquely massed eclectic design with vague references to Renaissance architecture. It was designed by Wiley … Read more
The Carnes Court Apartments consists of two mirror-image buildings flanking a central lawned court. Each building has an elongated L-plan, with polychrome brick walls and interlocking hipped roofs. Garage stalls are at the rear. The complex was designed by Van Slyke & Woodruff and built c. 1918. Alva R. Carnes, a traveling salesman who occupied … Read more
In 1908, Bishop Dunne, Bishop of Dallas, sent Father Bernard H. Diamond to found a new parish in the southeast section of Fort Worth. The existing Mission Revival church was dedicated that year. It is a delicately scaled stucco-clad structure, gabled and buttressed, with Mission style parapets at each end. Windows are arched. A small … 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
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 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
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
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