Alexander Hogg School was built in 1909 to serve 7th and 8th grade pupils throughout the Southside. It is a masonry block with projecting end bays clad in rusticated brick. Ornamentation is provided by inlaid brick. The decorative brick framing in the end bays is unusual, and contributes to the success of the design. Designed … Read more
146 1209 Summit Avenue [NR*/BSHD], Harrison-Morton House, c. 1915. A remnant of the “Quality Hill” neighborhood which stretched along the bluffs overlooking the Trinity River and along both sides of Summit Avenue, this circa 1915 Craftsman bungalow has much in common with the California bungalows designed during this period by well-known architects Greene and Greene. … Read more
Fire Station No. 15, one of at least eight neighborhood stations constructed by the City of Fort Worth in the 1920s, was designed by architect Charles F. Allen in the Bungalow style to blend with the character of the neighborhood. Contractor B. B. Adams constructed the building of ochre brick, stucco and wood frame. The … Read more
North Fort Worth High School was the second school built by the Fort Worth Independent School District after the North Side was partially annexed in 1909. The school accommodated the influx of students whose parents had come to work in the Swift and Armour plants in the North Side. From 1937 to 1955, the structure … Read more
Funding for the construction of South Hi Mount School was provided by a 1933 bond issue. Hubert Hammond Crane was architect for the elementary school; Quisle and Andrews were named general contractors. The Works Progress Administration project, which included landscaping, was completed in 1936. The tile structure with a red brick veneer features a four-bay, … Read more
The Calhoun House is a compactly scaled and carefully detailed gambreled brick house, symmetrically planned with central arched portico, French doors and chimneys on the end walls. Designed by architects Glascow and Longley, it was built for Hugh and Estelle Calhoun in 1926. The Calhoun House is a contributing resource in the Fairmount-Southside Historic District … Read more
Located in an older prestigious residential neighborhood, this two-story brick apartment building fits gracefully onto its site. It was built c. 1924 for Mrs. Irene G. Barrow, and known as the Roseland Apartments in the late 1920s and 1930s. The building has particularly fine casement windows with delicate mullions. Correction: Mrs. Barrow was the second … Read more
148 1598 Sunset Terrace [RTHL/NR], Cobb-Burney House, 1904; 1956. A striking Prairie Style residence that is well integrated with its hillside site, this house was built in 1904 for Emma and Lyman D. Cobb. Cobb was the president of the W.C. Belcher Land Mortgage Co. Mrs. Cobb lived here following her husband’s death, but sold … Read more
John Calhoun Outlaw, a native of Tennessee, moved to North Fort Worth in 1896 to work as an engineer for the Cotton Belt Railroad. In 1914, he began construction of a new house on Central Avenue. The large two and a half story wood-frame house features a two-level gallery that wraps around the front and … 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
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