Prior to the completion of this building, first through eighth grade students of St. Mary’s Parochial School met in the Laneri High School building (see 1400 S. Hemphill St.). The new one-story brick and tile school building was designed by Wyatt C. Hedrick and constructed by H. I. Moreland. It sits on a raised basement. … Read more
This large hilltop house, extremely romantic in feeling, consists of interlocking two-story gabled wings with a third-story central belvedere. The southern façade is opened by arcaded loggias and terraces. A one-story wing extends to the north, terminated by a garage addition. Walls are rendered in textured pale buff brick; roofs are clad in Spanish tile. … Read more
1212 W Lancaster Avenue [NR], WI. Cook Memorial Hospital/W.I. Cook Children’s Hospital/Health South Rehabilitation, 1927-29; 1957-58; 1989-90. The W.I. Cook Hospital was completed in 1929, acclaimed as one of the finest hospitals of its size in the country. The facility was built with and endowed by funds given by Mrs. W.I. (Matilda M.) Cook in … 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
Ridglea Baptist congregation was organized in 1943. The two-story education building on the east was constructed in 1948-50 by the contracting firm of Voss and Arnold to architectural plans by R. S. Smith. The brick church was designed by architects Wilson and Patterson and erected by contractor 3. R. Parker in 1957. In Georgian Revival … Read more
John P. King sewed several terms as county clerk, was director of Fort Worth National Bank and Fort Worth Power and Light Co., in 1898 organized Southern Ice and Cold Storage Co., and founded King Candy Co. in 1906. In 1927, King purchased a lot on the west side of River Crest Country Club and … Read more
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