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 Gumm House is a two-story brick veneer house, generally rectangular in plan, with interlocking hipped roofs clad in glazed green tile. Eaves are soffited and adorned with carved brackets. A full porch supported by brick piers extends across the front. The house was built in 1919 for Charles C. Gumm, a partner in the … Read more
Followers of the North Fort Worth Baptist Church congregated at a number of locatiom following the church’s 1891 founding. Initial purchase of lots on Circle Park Boulevard occurredin 1903; the present structures were built in 1927 and 1941. Three structures, the Main auditorium, the Young Peoples’ Building and the Elementary Building, are united by their … Read more
The Fort Worth Live stock Exchange was constructed in 1902-03 to replace an 1885 exchange building east of the Swift plant. With the stock market for trading of livestock, the barns and pens for holding the livestock, and the meatpacking plant aligned on E. Exchange Avenue, the new location produced an orderly, centralized arrangement of … Read more
This substantial Grand Avenue house is composed of a hip-roofed, two-story block flanked by a one-story wing to the south. First-floor walls and Missionesque portico are clad in roughcast stucco, while the second floor is clad in red brick. A 1914 building permit indicates that contractor E. C. Walsh erected the house for Joseph L. … Read more
Early occupants of this site were listed in the 1918 directory as a clothes cleaners and a hardware company. The structure was rebuilt, most likely by 1920, at which time the Roseland Theater located here under the management of John N. Sparks, Jr. By 1929, L. C. Tidball ran the renamed Rose Theater. The theater … Read more
An interesting bungalow composition is created by the juxtaposition of an offset, gabled entry porch, a gable-roofed first story, and a setback, gabled second story. William Cameron and Co. furnished lumber and building materials to J. W. and Frances Condon in 1910. Samuel Lundy, a city physician for Niles City, purchased the house in 1912 … Read more
Manvel Ervin, an architect and engineer for the Sinclair Refining Co., designed nearly 2,000 gas stations throughout the southwest. Constructed in 1937 as a gas station with an office and garage behind, this station operated until 1967. It was used as a radio store from 1967 to 1988, when the structure was renovated and returned … Read more
Masonry construction combines with painted brick and original asbestos siding in this Minimal Traditional styled home. Massing reflects influence of the preceding Tudor Revival with a lowered, more modest roofline and symmetrical façade punctuated by only a minimal gable projection over the front door, supported by wrought-iron and covering a small stoop.
M. A. Eitelman, proprietor of Eitelman & Son Blacksmiths, had this two-story residence built c. 1909. It is constructed of rough-faced concrete blocks which simulate stone. Porch columns punch through the roof where they are integrated into a roof terrace balustrade. The house is significant as an early and impressive local example of concrete block … Read more
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