This unusual, one and one-half story house is faced in textured yellow brick and has a generally rectangular plan under a gable roof. The structure is distinguished by the eccentric treatment of the Tudor-arched entry below a gabled portico with flamboyant rounded sides. Oscar B. King, a schoolteacher, purchased this lot from Herbert G. Walker … Read more
This diminutive gabled brick church has a corner bell tower capped by an open belfry. Recessed stuccoed panels contain paired arched windows. Half timbering ornaments the window panels and the stuccoed gable ends of the central portico and main roof. The scale and workmanship of the building combine to produce a feeling of quiet dignity. … Read more
J. P. Elder Middle School, originally called North Side Junior High School, was built in 1927. Renamed for John Peyton Elder, a retire’d Swift & Co. executive and Board of Education member, the two and a half story structure was designed by Wiley G. Clarkson, an architect known for his school designs in period revival … Read more
Herbert G. Walker, in real estate and investment, purchased several lots in Monticello in 1929. His Tudor Period Revival house was erected the same year by F. N. Heflin and Chickasaw Lumber Co. A T-plan in composition, the house sports a brick veneer clad in this stucco. Period revival details include half-timbering with herringbone brick … Read more
One of a number of houses designed and built by Dr. M. J. Bisco in Park Hill, this stone-veneered residence was built in 1927. First owned by businessman A. B. Wharton, Jr., the property was purchased in 1934 by Paul W. Tibbetts, general manager of Greyhound Bus Lines in Fort Worth.
Magnolia Petroleum Co. purchased this site in 1930 and opened a station here the same year. The station has been run by several operators. The picturesque, Tudor cottage style (sometimes termed ‘.’Mother Goose”) structure features a cross gable with flaring eaves. Of stucco with brick and half-timbered trim, the station is now obscured by a … Read more
This two-story Tudor Revival style house was constructed for William Carroll and Jennie Forbess; he was assistant manager of Northern Texas Traction Company. Designed by Joseph R. Pelich, the L-plan residence exhibits a brick-veneer first floor and textured stucco with wavy half-timbering above. An asymmetrical, sloping front fable incorporates an arched portico, while varied dormer … Read more
This large and impressive Tudor Revival house, built in 1928, was designed by Fort Worth architect Joseph R. Pelich for R. A. and Gladys Westbrook. Mr. Westbrook was founder of the Westbrook Oil Co. The house is two and one-half stories in height with brick walls and gabled roof clad in slate. Gabled bays, half-timbered … Read more
Cattlebuyer Robert E. Vermillion and his wife, Winifred, were the first recorded residents of this unusual house. Of irregularly coursed rubble construction, the steeply pitched intersecting gables and segmentally arched windows with thick cement surrounds give the house a period revival feeling. A Tudoresque portico of polychrome stone may be a slightly later addition.
Dentist and speculative builder Dr. M. J. Bisco and his wife Pearl designed and built a number of South Side and West Side houses at this period. Bisco often employed E. C. Arnett to carry out his designs, and a 1929 mechanic’s lien indicates that this house was the product of their collaboration. Robert C. … Read more
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