This two-story wood-framed house is veneered with brick, has a generally rectangular plan, and cross-gabled roof. A walled terrace extends across the front, where it is covered by a shed-roofed porch with Tuscan columns, and south side, where it is equipped with a Tuscan trellis. The front gable end, clad in stucco, appears to have … Read more
137 731 Samuels Avenue [NR/SAHD{NR)], Bennett-Fenelon House, c.187S; c.1900. The Bennett-Fenelon house is the oldest residence on Samuels Avenue, and one of the oldest in Fort Worth on its original site. David C. Bennett, a dry goods merchant who later became vice-president of First National Bank, and his family occupied the house from about 1875 … Read more
Isaac Foster, a farmer who had significant land holdings, is first listed at this address in the 1883-84 city directory. He and hist wife, Mary, occupied the house until his death about 1900. Following her husband’s death, Mary Foster lived with her daughter and son-in-law Lulu and William B. Garvey. In 1911 this property was … Read more
601 Main Street [NR/CFW/Sky(NR)], Blackstone Hotel, 1929; 1952-53. One of Fort Worth’s great hotels from the boom years of the 1920s, the Blackstone Hotel’s stepped and spired silhouette has been a prominent part of the city’s skyline since 1929. Designed by the nationally known firm of Mauran, Russell, and Crowell in association with Fort Worth … Read more
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