This large two-story Tudor Revival house is clad in polychrome brick and is composed of a hipped block with half-timbered gabled bays. A massive chimney flanks a gabled portico on the front wall, both of which are partially veneered in sandstone. Bargeboards adorn the gables. The house, set in landscaped grounds on a double lot, … Read more
This rectangular-plan house, designed in the Tudor Revival style, is faced in dark red variegated brick under a hip roof clad in slate. The current owners recall that the structure was featured as the “House Beautiful” of 1936. The structure features a half-timbered, flush gable and a projecting gable flanking the one-story, crenelated portico containing … Read more
Joseph J. Patterson, a draftsman in the architectural firm of Wyatt C. Hedrick, had this house built in 1928, presumably based on his own design. It is a carefully detailed picturesque composition of interlocking gabled masses. The white stucco walls are half-timbered on the second story. Rough-cut random stone surrounds the entry and climbs up … Read more
This commercial development was designed as a row of Tudor Revival cottages stepping up a sloping site. It was built c. 1927 as an income property for Dr. W. C. Duringer. The store on the west end was added slightly later; it burned and was rebuilt in 1956. The brick walls and half-timbering of the … Read more
According to a 1928 Mechanic’s Lien, J.J. and Maude Sweet hired D.M. Council, contractor, to build this house for $10,000. Mr. Sweet platted this area in 1924, and his house was the first constructed in the new addition. Sweet, and his partner Elzie T. Jenkins, were barbers who also ran Sweet and Jenkins, a real … Read more
The McCauley House is two stories with a clipped gabled roof and a forward projecting entry wing whose gabled roof extends eccentrically almost to ground level. The red brick walls are pimpled with rocks and large clinkers. Built in 1931 by contractor J. D. Pope as a speculative property for B. K. Webb, the house … Read more
George L. Mathis, a brakeman for the Texas & Pacific Railroad, and his wife, Louise, acquired this lot in the Queensborough Addition in 1933 and hired John W. Padgett to construct their house the same year. The residence remained in the Mathis family until 1982. The one-story house of generally rectangular plan is clad in … Read more
The very popular Tudor Revival style began in the 1890s and was adopted by both high and middle class home builders in many of America’s suburbs during the first 40 years of the 20th century. The form and style are reflected primarily in the highly pitched and sweeping roof line. Built in about 1929 in … Read more
John B. Laneri, a native of Italy, was a prominent Fort Worth businessman (see 902 S. Jennings). He built this school for boys in 1921 in memory of his first wife. Originally for grades 5-9, it served as Fort Worth’s first Catholic high school from 1928 to 1962, with classes taught by Benedictine priests until … Read more
This substantial two-story residence was designed by Fort Worth architect Joseph R. Pelich and constructed by H. A. Mangham in 1930 for oilman R. A. Bristol. The house is picturesquely massed of interlocking hipped and gabled forms, with multicolored brick walls and slate roof. Partial half-timbering on the second story, a Tudor-arched entry and a … Read more
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