The Williams House is a two-story brick dwelling with green-tiled bracketed hipped roof, full front porch and side porte-cochere. A cast stone balustrade is set between the brick piers of the porch. The application of white paint to the brick has compromised the architectural significance of a handsomely designed residence. It was built in 1919 … Read more
The Stewart-Capps House is a two-story wood-framed house clad in white stucco, rectangular in plan with hipped roof. A symmetrical composition consisting of recessed end bays, a central pedimented portico, diminutive in scale, and regularly-spaced shuttered windows. Built in 1917 for Graham P. Stewart, assistant cashier at the Farmers & Mechanics National Bank, it was … Read more
This small gas station has pressed-metal simulated brick walls and a simulated Spanish-tiled hipped roof. It is rectangular in plan with a small office and recessed drive-through. Built c. 1920, the station has had many owners and names through the years. The gas station is a contributing resource in the Fairmount-Southside Historic District (local and … Read more
The National Feeders’ and Breeders’ Show, now called the Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show, was held before 1908 at various outdoor sites on the North Side. The Fort Worth Stock Yards Co. planned a permanent home for the show in 1907. The construction of the exposition building was financed by the Stock Yards Co., which … Read more
This three-story hotel structure with first-floor commercial spaces appears in the 1911 City Directory as Cody House, William Cody, proprietor. During the l920s, Mrs. L. C. Brown ran her Hotel Brown No. 2 here; Hereford Hotel located here in 1936. A variety of commercial establishments have carried on business in the street-level shops. The upper … Read more
Initial ownership of this commercial structure is unclear. The first tenants in 1907 included Moore Drug Store, Mutual Life Insurance Association of Tarrant County, M. G. Ellis’s real estate office, a jeweler and a confectionery store. Hickman and Clark located their drugstore here from 1908 to 1918, when they relocated nearby (1400 N. Main Street). … Read more
All but one lot of this block was purchased in 1915 by D. Hart and Sons, a livestock firm (2629 N Main Street). By 1925 the structure housed the Stock Yards Co. Carpenter Shop, which remained there until the 1950s. The two-story, industrial structure has a stuccoed concrete first floor elevation below a brick second … Read more
Morris B. Berney purchased all of block thirty- seven from River Crest Co. in 1911. Berney was involved in the oil industry and was vice-president and secretary of the Alta Vista Creamery Co. He later developed portions of the Ridglea area (6319 Rosemont Avenue). The Berney house was constructed in 1916, and remained in the … Read more
The sense of connection of land with home comes with this Craftsman-style influenced wide front porch securely supported by stout columns and balustrade and topped by a hip-roof dormer projecting from the attic. It’s easy to miss the two-story cross-gable construction behind the façade. Additional popular period details include exposed rafter tails and exterior brick … Read more
Organized in 1905, College Avenue Baptist Church initially met in a tent on a lot at College Avenue and Leuda Street. A sanctuary was erected in 1906. The church moved to the site at 1333 College Avenue in 1916 and erected a new sanctuary, now demolished. The existing three-story brick education building, designed by architect … Read more
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