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 Jackson House is a two-story gabled Georgian Revival house, symmetrically composed with regularly-spaced double-hung windows and a delicate central portico, gabled and supported by clusters of slender Tuscan columns. The roof has wide eaves and eave returns. Flush chimneys project at the peak of each side elevation. Of wood-framed construction, the house is clad … Read more
Named for the subdivision, Hi Mount School was built by Arlington Heights Independent School District, and annexed by Fort Worth Independent School District in 1922. Architects of the small elementary school were Clarkson and Gaines; Harry B. Friedman was contractor. The school was informally renamed Thomas Place School after North and South Hi Mount Schools … Read more
Built by the Fort Worth Stock Yards Co. to complement the Live Stock Exchange building in style, the horse and mule barns were designed by the architectural firm of Klipstein and Rathmann and built by James Stewart and Co., contractors. The barns are constructed of brick, with the E. Exchange Avenue façade sheathed in roughcast … Read more
Winfield S. Vinson, a cattle salesman with Cassidy Southwestern Commission Co., purchased this site in 1907 from North Fort Worth Townsite Co. 3. B. Kirby was hired to construct this large one and one-half story house in 1907. A recurring Fort Worth house type, a gable roof slopes toward the street over a full porch … Read more
S. T. Percy acquired this site between 1904 and 1909, and the present structure was erected in 1909, replacing earlier retail businesses. First tenants of the building were a saloon and a lunch counter. Furniture, grocery, shoe and drug stores have occupied the building since 1914. The small, brick, two-story structure is in poor condition; … Read more
J. D. Little, a manager of North Fort Worth Ice Co., had anew house constructed in 1933 to replace an earlier residence at the site. W. I. Craig was the contractor for the project. The dark brick and stone veneer house has a number of steeply pitched intersecting gables and dormers to provide a Tudor … Read more
This masonic temple, constructed by Arlington Heights Lodge No. 1184, is set on angle on its triangular corner lot. The lodge received its charter on December 9, 1921, and the cornerstone was laid May 23, 1922 in the fast-developing Arlington Heights district. Architect Jack C. Davies and contractor Walter L. Cox were responsible for the … Read more
This Craftsman-style home includes a wide porch framed by solid brick columns at each end and half-brick piers and battered wood columns at center as well as distinguishing the setback of the main house at right. The front gable roof sports a large vent and knee brackets, half-timber work accenting the stucco and recessed panels … Read more
The La Salle Apartments is a complex of mirror-image buildings flanking a central court. Each building is two and one-half stories in height, rectangular in plan, with cross-gabled roofs and brick veneer walls. Half-timbering occurs in gable ends and dormers. Built c. 1927, it is very similar in planning and design to several other apartment … Read more
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