This fine house, designed in Spanish Colonial Revival style by architect Earl T. Glasgow, is an irregular U-plan incorporating a garden courtyard and garage to the rear. The stuccoed, hollow tile house is roofed in red Mission tile; the front elevation features a shed-roofed porch of massive timber construction and an asymmetrically placed battered chimney. … Read more
The Bevan House is a large two-story wood-framed house clad in buff and yellow brick. It is rectangular in plan with a red-tiled hipped roof. It has a nearly symmetrical composition of a central chimney flanked by paired windows. A projecting portico with arched entry is balanced by a roof-terraced arched loggia at opposite ends … Read more
Architect Charles Barnett of Dallas designed this house for James B. Baker in 1928. Mr. Baker was president of Baker Brothers Co., nurserymen and florists. Baker’s company grew flowers in several large greenhouses in Riverside and maintained two hundred acres east of Fort Worth for the general nursery business. Mr. Baker’s descendants operate the company … Read more
In 1939, the City of Fort Worth acquired four lots in the Fairmount Addition fronting 8th Avenue. In 1940, it received approval from the Work Projects Administration to begin work on a new South Side water booster plant. Salvaged material from the old booster station at 5th Avenue and Berry Street, including the booster pumps, … Read more
According to mechanic’s lien records, this house is built of solid stone faced in a polychromatic pattern of light and dark sandstone, limestone and petrified wood. One of the largest and most impressive houses in Riverside, the structure has a complex asymmetrically massed plan based on the L-plan with a two-story hipped wing and a … Read more
The Ponton House is a picturesquely massed Mediterranean style house with white stuccoed walls and flat roofs trimmed in red tile. The chimney is treated as an arcaded belvedere. Designed by Joseph R. Pelich, the house was built c. 1920. The first owner-occupant was Dr. A. R. Ponton, a well-known Fort Worth physician, who established … Read more
A. C. Luther, president of Byrne & Luther, Inc., developers responsible for building many of the homes in Westover Hills, had a “Spanish Hacienda” constructed in the new development about 1936. The one-story, U-plan house is set back behind a walled, brick-paved courtyard. Wood sash casement windows and a heavy timber, shaped rafter ends complement … Read more
Lily B. Clayton School was constructed in two phases in the 1920s and 1930s. Set on large landscaped grounds, it is a U-plan structure with one-story and two-story wings clad in yellow, brown and ochre brick, with tiled roofs. The one-story west wing, designed by Wiley G. Clarkson, opened in 1922 as Mistletoe Heights Elementary … Read more
Wyatt C. Hedrick, an engineer, worked with the important Fort Worth architectural firm of Sanguinet & Staats prior to organizing his own architecture and engineering firm, which was responsible for a number of substantial commissions in Fort Worth. From 1923 to 1929, he was vice-president of the Fort Worth Extension Company, the original developer of … Read more
The Shotts House is a two-story Spanish Colonial Revival residence with stucco walls and red tile roof. Arched and rectangular windows are set in alternating groups on the front façade. The house was built c. 1929 for Edward A. Shotts, manager of Shotts Electric Co. It was extensively rehabilitated in the early 1980s.
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