200 W. Belknap Street [RTHL/NR/Gov(NR)], Criminal Court Building/Criminal Justice Building, 1917-18; 1951; 1970. The Criminal Court Building is a handsome eclectic design produced by the important Fort Worth architectural firm of Sanguinet and Staats in 1917. Taylor Building Co. was the contractor for the project. Built to replace a dilapidated nineteenth-century jail, the facility had … Read more
Earl E. Baidridge, a prominent Fort Worth financier and head of Fort Worth Savings Bank and Trust Co., purchased, in 1913, ten lots along Crestline Road, containing 120 acres. The Baldridge House has been attributed to the prominent architectural firm of Sanguinet and Staats. Passing out of Baldridge ownership in 1915, the property has changed … Read more
Henry W. Williams, founder of a wholesale drug company and a prominent banker, arrived in Fort Worth in 1884. Purchasing a parcel of 28 acres on the ridge overlooking the West Fork of the Trinity River in 1907, Williams and his family were first listed at this address in 1909. John Roby Penn purchased the … 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
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
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
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
Grand Avenue, curving gracefully past its impressive bluff-top houses, leads to Oak- wood Cemetery, which is set on axis with Circle Park Boulevard. A semi-rural oasis in the urbanized North Side, the cemetery is situated on a broad, sloping expanse punctuated with mature oaks, stretching down to the banks of the West Fork of the … 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
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