The Clark House is a two-story brick structure with hipped roof, full porch (partially enclosed) and a side porte-cochere. This was one of the first houses built on Elizabeth Blvd. It was designed in 1912 by a little-known architect and civil engineer named Boudinot G. Leake for Hugh C. Ford, and sold soon after to … Read more
This formally composed two-story residence has a rectangular plan, hipped roof, regularly spaced windows and symmetrical front elevation featuring a central recessed entry with a pedimented Tuscan surround. The roof has soffited eaves, decorative brackets and a veneer of green glazed tile. Walls are clad in red brick, with cast stone trim. Built in 1922 … Read more
This one-story wood-framed house has a rectangular plan and gabled roof. It is sheathed in clapboard with shingles in the gable ends. A full porch wraps around front to the north side, supported by Tuscan columns on a concrete block base. Built c. 1910, the earliest recorded owner was Lee Hammond, a superintendent of public … Read more
Replacing an earlier entrance to the Coliseum, the present ticket office was constructed in 1941 by contractor Harry B. Friedman. In a harmonious Mission Revival style, the two-story small building of rectangular plan features stucco Missionesque parapets over a one-story brick arcade. Early photographs indicate that the roofs of the two-story block, the arcade, and … Read more
This handsomely detailed, two-story brick structure is first listed in the 1909-10 City Directory. The first floor housed the Stock Yards Branch of the Fort Worth Post Office and the upper level was a boarding house. E. F. Melton Grocery later shared the street level premises. Later occupants of the second story included the Exchange … Read more
Probably constructed in 1906 on property owned by William Bryce, this two-story commercial structure housed the Nash Furniture Co. in 1907. Marine Hotel located in the upper story. The front elevation is faced is rusticated concrete block and features cast-stone cornice and brackets under a shaped parapet. The storefronts, now boarded up, have been altered.
North Fort Worth High School was the second school built by the Fort Worth Independent School District after the North Side was partially annexed in 1909. The school accommodated the influx of students whose parents had come to work in the Swift and Armour plants in the North Side. From 1937 to 1955, the structure … Read more
Connell Baptist Church, 1949-51. Arlington Heights Baptist Church members formed a congregation on January 4, 1925. Construction of a building now used for education began the same year and was completed in 1929. It was extensively altered in the 1960s. Renamed in 1929 G. H. Connell Memorial Baptist Church after an influential charter member, the … Read more
A Chicago-style window in the projecting front gable is one of the few distinctions of this modest wood-sided home with a façade dominated by the large picture window near center of the asymmetrical façade. The style is that of Minimal Traditional, slightly based on the Tudor Revival, though with a lower roofline reflective of an … Read more
De Zavala Elementary School is a two-story structure with a raised basement. It is rectangular in plan with a flat roof. Its composition is a masonry block with yellow brick walls and cast stone trim. It is an extremely handsome classical design whose main element is a central engaged colonnade consisting of paired giant order … Read more
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