This three-story commercial building and hotel, located at the major intersection of E. Exchange Avenue and N. Main Street, was financed by an early investor and real estate developer of North Fort Worth, Colonel Thomas M. Thannisch. Moving to the area in 1894, he was a city alderman, vice-president of the Exchange National Bank and … Read more
Reputed to be the first Greek Orthodox congregation in Texas, St. Demetrios Church was founded in 1910. Parishioners raised $750 in 1916 to purchase land and construct a church. The cornerstone indicates that the structure was constructed in 1917; Weinman family reminiscences and period newspaper articles indicate that Ludwig B. Weinman was the architect of … Read more
William J. Bryce, the son of a masonry contractor, arrived in Fort Worth in 1883, where he worked as a journeyman bricklayer before setting up his own brick contracting business in 1907. Bryce’s successful career as a builder included contracts with Armour & Co. for the firm’s North Side meatpacking plant and the Fort Worth … Read more
De Zavala Elementary School is a two-story structure with a raised basement. It is rectangular in plan with a flat roof. Its composition is a masonry block with yellow brick walls and cast stone trim. It is an extremely handsome classical design whose main element is a central engaged colonnade consisting of paired giant order … Read more
Oklahoma City developer John J. Harden had this hall built in 1930 to provide market space for local farmers, vendors and retail businesses. Designed by B. Gaylord Noftsger, also of Oklahoma City, it is an eclectic design which playfully incorporates traditional and modern elements. In composition, a masonry block, nearly square in plan, with towers … Read more
This impressive Queen Anne house was built for Lulu Foster Garvey and her husband William B. Garvey. Mrs. Garvey was the daughter of Isaac Foster and the granddaughter of Baldwin L. Samuel. Mary and Isaac Foster deeded the land on which this house stands to the Garveys in 1883. Mr. Garvey was a grocer who … 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
Brick streets along E. Exchange Avenue and Packers Avenue were laid about 1912 following a 1911 fire in the stockyards area. The streets in and around the industrial compounds were most likely paved during the early phases of plant construction. After the annexation of the North Side, the Thurber Construction Co., under contract to the … Read more
Kay Kimbell, a successful industrialist who moved to Fort Worth in 1924, amassed great wealth from wheat and grain milling, wholesale and retail food production, petroleum, insurance and real estate. An avid art collector since the l930s, Mt Kimbell and his wife, Velma Fuller Kimbell, established the Kimbell Art Foundation. Before his death in 1964, … Read more
M. A. Eitelman, proprietor of Eitelman & Son Blacksmiths, had this two-story residence built c. 1909. It is constructed of rough-faced concrete blocks which simulate stone. Porch columns punch through the roof where they are integrated into a roof terrace balustrade. The house is significant as an early and impressive local example of concrete block … Read more
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