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
Oilman T. C. Shaw had this house built in 1927. Dr. J. J. Richardson, a prominent Fort Worth physician, owned the house during the 1940s and 1950s. The stucco walls, arched windows and red tile roof are typical of traditional Spanish architecture popular in the 1920s in Texas. The projecting second-story porch is characteristic of … Read more
The Munchus House is a two-story wood-framed resdence clad in narrow siding, rectangular in plan with gabled roof. A shed-roofed porch extends across the front, becoming a gabled porte-cochere to the west, supported by clusters of wood posts on high brick piers; gables are set over the entry and driveway. Applied half-timbering in the gables, … Read more
The one-story brick Tanner House has a partial second story, rambling plan and combination gabled and hipped roofs. Built c. 1925 for J. F. Tanner and owned by the Tanner family until 1960, when it was purchased by the Edna Gladney Home. Mrs. Edna Gladney (1889-1961) became a director of the Texas Children’s Home & … Read more
The two and one-half story wood-framed James-Fujita House is rectangular in plan, sheathed in red brick, with a glazed green-tiled gambrel roof. The roof extends to cover a full porch supported by Tuscan columns. An awkwardly over-scaled shed-roofed dormer with recessed balcony is over the porch. Large chimneys are set on each end wall. Built … Read more
Dr. Clay Johnson was a noted Fort Worth physician and civic leader. He served on the Fort Worth Board of Education during the 1910s. The architects he chose for his house on Chase Court were Marion L. Waller and E. Stanley Field, who designed several schools in the city, including the old Fort Worth High … Read more