A large two-story L-plan residence, the Hoffer-Hulen House is clad in smooth stucco, with glazed green-tiled hipped and gabled roofs. A covered terrace with Tuscan columns and hipped roof fills the angle of the two wings. The house is a picturesquely massed eclectic design with vague references to Renaissance architecture. It was designed by Wiley … Read more
The Martin House is a two-story wood-framed dwelling, rectangular in plan and clad in red brick with glazed green-tiled roof. A full balustraded terrace extends across the front, with central roof-terraced portico. Double doors flanking the portico open onto the terrace. The house was built in 1919 for Benjamin H. Martin, vice-president of the Farmers … Read more
This substantial, one-story bungalow is clad in narrow-milled wood siding and features a gable roof of low nitch with a number of transverse gables. A full porch, supported by brick piers and balustrade, shades the east front and extends north to form a porte-cochere. H. H. and Lena M Huddleston acquired the house in 1937; … Read more
These covered hog and sheep pens stretch south from E. Exchange Avenue to Marine Creek, and were used to hold livestock during auction and prior to being slaughtered at the packing houses just to the east. In 1911 they were modernized and rebuilt at a cost of $150,000. Concrete posts, roof, firewall, and brick paving … Read more
Claude Spurlock, a buyer for Swift & Co., purchased this Grand Avenue bluff-top property in 1919. Spurlock and his wife, Madge, resided in the house until 1951. Distinguishing features of the low, Craftsman style, wood-frame house are the rubble stone chimney and porch posts. It is a contributor to the proposed Grand Avenue National Register … Read more
This one-story commercial garage has a central garage entry flanked by fixed-pane windows on either side. The structure is faced in gleaming white, glazed brick. Tax records indicate that the structure was most likely built around 1945 on the former site of a garage. William H. Baker and Olin S. Hughes operated the Motor Supply … Read more
Called at one time the world’s leading horse and mule dealer, Waddy R. Ross was a self-made millionaire who made his fortune by supplying horses and mules during both world wars. Arriving in Fort Worth in 1905, he and his brothers established the Ross Brothers Horse and Mule Co. Purchasing three lots in 1917 at … Read more
Traveling salesman Henry S. Martin purchased this property in 1923. R. C. Maxwell, contractor, erected the commercial structure in 1926; groceries, drugstores and small retail shops have occupied the premises since then. The one-story, flat-roofed building has a dentil patterned brick frieze. Windows have been altered and the brick surface painted.
Slight in its reveal against the façade, the exterior chimney appears to flow upwards from a wide base through the eave and burst in its true breadth and depth above the projecting gable roof of this higher style Craftsman home. Strong, square brick columns carry the projecting brackets and rafter tails across the front entrance … Read more
This two-story brick Prairie Style house was built c. 1918 for J. P. Millican, president of the J. P. Millican Printing & Advertising Co. The overhanging hipped roof is characteristic of the style. It is unaltered on the exterior except for a partially enclosed sleeping porch. The Millican House is a contributing resource in the … Read more
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