Sycamore Heights Baptist Church was founded in 1922. Charter members and church trustees T.L. Black, Harry G. Leath and WD. West voted to acquire this site for a church building in 1923. This building was constructed shortly thereafter under the leadership of the first pastor, Reverend R.R. Pulliam. The unusual Mission Revival style church has … 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
A building permit indicates that the contracting firm of West and Womack constructed this two-story house for Gaylord J. and Hattie Stone. Stone was president and general manager of Universal Mills, Inc. The large buff brick house of staggered rectangular plan sports vaguely Classical decorative elements below a hipped roof clad in Mission tile.
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
This unusual house is constructed on a generally rectangular plan and sports a veneer of yellow brick and a gable roof clad in red Mission tile. Prominent features of the front elevation include a fanciful Missionesque parapet with cast-stone coping over an equally flamboyant Missionesque cast-stone lintel. The Tulsa Way site was purchased in 1928 … 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
George C. Poston was a retired Weatherford merchant, owner of Baker-Poston Department Store in Weatherford as well as president of Southwestern Building & Loan Association and vice president of Kingsbery Manufacturing Co. This two-story house was constructed in a prominent corner location in the University Place subdivision in 1926; architect Wiley G. Clarkson was responsible … 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
This frame structure, clad in narrow-milled wood siding, has a gable roof. Simply framed windows on all sides of the plain, one and one-half story structure have been boarded up with identical narrow siding. The distinctive features of the structure are the exaggerated Missionesque parapets on the east and west elevations. When constructed, the church … Read more
Montgomery Ward, founded in Chicago in 1872, located theft regional retail and mail order house in Fort Worth in 1928, after an extensive promotional campaign by the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce. Constructed in the record time of seven months, the huge eight-story masonry block contained 300,000 square feet of floor space. Thomas S. Byrne … Read more
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