Built in 1911, this two-story brick and shingle house was the first residence built on Elizabeth Blvd. The hipped roof and long horizontal porch evoke the Prairie Style. The original owner was Whitford T. Fry, a merchandise broker. The Fry House is a contributing resource in the Elizabeth Boulevard Historic District (local and national).
The Fuller House is a large and picturesque Mediterranean style house, of wood-framed construction, with tan stucco walls and red-tiled hipped roofs. A partially balustraded terrace extends along the house’s front, merging with an arcaded roof-terraced loggia on the side. The arched entry has an elaborate cast stone surround which incorporates an arched second story … Read more
The Baird House is a wood-framed L-plan house that is extremely simple in its design. The porch appears to be a slightly later addition. Built c. 1908, the earliest recorded owner was Harte C. Baird, a mechanic, who lived here through the early 1920s. The house has had a number of owners since. The Baird … Read more
Facing its companion buildings, this two-story commercial structure was erected for the Fort Worth Stock Yards Co. by the Topeka Bridge and Land Co. following the completion of the Marine Creek Bridge. An early tenant of the second floor was the Saddle and Sirloin Club, and exclusive private club. A number of saloons and cafes … Read more
The first commercial tenant of this building was the Ashby and Dill Grocery. By the twenties the ground floor had changed hands, and a variety of businesses located here for the next sixty years. Originally the second-floor residential space was occupied by Mrs. Sally E. Smith’s Boarding House, and during the 1920s by a boarding … Read more
L. Green Pritchard purchased this N. Main Street site in 1904 and offered furnished rooms for rent on the second floor of his building by 1914. The two- story commercial structure housed a restaurant, bakery and barbershop in its ground level storefronts as early as 1907. A number of retail firms have carried on business … Read more
Dominick Hart purchased most of this block bounded by N. Main, NW. 27th, NW 26th Streets and Ellis Avenue in 1915 (2601 N Main Street). His livestock firm D. Hart and Sons, seems to have operated as an independent competitor to the large Stock Yards Co. This two-story, L-plan building, set on a sloping site, … Read more
This Georgian Revival house faced in red brick veneer was constructed in 1941 by Clarence Epperley to plans by architect Hubert Hammond Crane for D. R. and Eva Tripplehorn; their descendants still occupy the house. A prominent feature of the two-story house is the monumental semicircular portico supported by Corinthian columns
This Craftsman-style home retains the multiple vertical panes of the period in the upper sashes of the front mullioned windows, knee brackets and exposed rafter tails of the roofline, and exterior brick chimney, with a prominent vent in upper gable end. The lower half of the façade reveals the original buff brick while the gable … Read more
This two-story carriage house is constructed of stone on the ground floor and half-timbered above. The roof has rolled eaves to simulate thatch. It was built by Dr. Gilbert E. La Beaune, using stone from the original E. E. Chase barn. A large house built at the same time at the front of the property … Read more
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