(S.W. Corner E. Rosedale St.) [Originally recorded as 1200 Block, S. Freeway] Southside Colored School No. 134 was located on this site as early as 1894. A new three-story brick schoolhouse, designed by Sanguinet & Staats, was erected in 1917-18 (now demolished). Two-story brick buildings, housing additional classrooms, were constructed in 1927 and 1937, the … Read more
The oldest continuously used church building in Fort Worth, St. Patrick Church was erected beginning in 1888 according to plans prepared by architect James J. Kane. Kane practiced in Fort Worth from 1876 until his death in 1901. His other projects include St. Ignatius Academy, a Tarrant County jail, and circa 1882 renovations to the … Read more
L. Green Pritchard purchased this N. Main Street site in 1904 and offered furnished rooms for rent on the second floor of his building by 1914. The two- story commercial structure housed a restaurant, bakery and barbershop in its ground level storefronts as early as 1907. A number of retail firms have carried on business … Read more
Fort Worth Stock Yards Sign and Marine Creek Bridge, 1910. A major improvement to the street, the Topeka Bridge & Land Co. constructed the Exchange Avenue bridge across Marine Creek and the Fort Worth Stock Yards sign for the Fort Worth Stock Yards Co., the property owners. Built for the grand opening on March 14, … Read more
This masonic temple, constructed by Arlington Heights Lodge No. 1184, is set on angle on its triangular corner lot. The lodge received its charter on December 9, 1921, and the cornerstone was laid May 23, 1922 in the fast-developing Arlington Heights district. Architect Jack C. Davies and contractor Walter L. Cox were responsible for the … Read more
The Markeen Apartments consists of two very similar two-story brick buildings on adjoining corner lots. Each is rectangular, clad in buff brick, with flat roof and hipped parapet fascia of pressed metal simulating tile. Two-story porticos project forward. The apartments, of fireproof construction, were erected soon after the fire of April 1909, and completed by … Read more
One of the major monuments of civic design in Fort Worth, the City’s main post office since its opening on Washington’s Birthday in 1933. Its site, adjacent to the Texas & Pacific terminal, was chosen to facilitate mail shipment. Groundbreaking for the $1,245,000 building was on August 11, 1931, as the railroad terminal complex neared … 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
Initial ownership of this commercial structure is unclear. The first tenants in 1907 included Moore Drug Store, Mutual Life Insurance Association of Tarrant County, M. G. Ellis’s real estate office, a jeweler and a confectionery store. Hickman and Clark located their drugstore here from 1908 to 1918, when they relocated nearby (1400 N. Main Street). … Read more
Anticipating transportation needs to the new meatpacking plants, in January 1902, the Northern Texas Traction Co. extended and widened the streetcar tracks from downtown Fort Worth to the intersection of E. Exchange Avenue and Packers Avenue. The Exchange Avenue Stairs, rising up from the trolley tracks to the level of the Swift and Armour packing … Read more
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