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
The Red River, Texas and Southern Railroad was chartered by the Frisco line to build a line from Denison to Carrollton and into Fort Worth. Completed in 1902, the bridge bears a plaque giving credit for the design and construction to A. J. Tullock, Civil Engineer and Contractor, Leavenworth, Kansas. Long timber trestles span the … Read more
Prominent Fort Worth architect Marshall R. S anguinet studied architecture at Washington University in St. Louis, moving to Fort Worth in 1883. Forming several partnerships over the years, from 1892 to 1896 he was in business with Arthur and Howard Messer. In 1903 Sanguinet began his long practice with Carl G. Staats; the firm was … Read more
In 1908, Bishop Dunne, Bishop of Dallas, sent Father Bernard H. Diamond to found a new parish in the southeast section of Fort Worth. The existing Mission Revival church was dedicated that year. It is a delicately scaled stucco-clad structure, gabled and buttressed, with Mission style parapets at each end. Windows are arched. A small … 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
Paddock Viaduct was constructed in 1913-14 to improve transportation to the rapidly developing meat packing district of North Fort Worth. Designed by the St. Louis engineering firm of Brenneke and Fay and constructed by Hannan-Hickey Brothers Construction, also of St. Louis, this bridge was the first reinforced concrete arch bridge in the nation to use … 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
Replacing earlier temporary school buildings on the site, North Hi Mount Elementary School was constructed 1934-35 by Works Progress Administration labor. Architect Wyatt C. Hedrick was responsible for the Spanish-Mediterranean Revival design; James T. Taylor was contractor for the Fort Worth bond project. One-story auditorium and cafeteria wings project forward from the two-story main block … Read more
Major Khleber Miller Van Zandt, a Captain in Company D, Texas Seventh Regiment in the Confederate army, settled in Fort Worth following the Civil War. A member of the Texas Legislature, a banker, merchant and cattleman, he acquired 600 acres on the West Side of Fort Worth between 1871 and 1873. Still owned by the … Read more
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