This large Tudor Revival house on a prominent lot facing River Crest Country Club was constructed about 1919 for George W. Polk, an attorney at law and vice-president of Texas Anchor Fence Co. The two and one-half story house, attributed to architect Wiley G. Clarkson, is in composition a cross-gabled T-plan. The first floor is … Read more
Grover C. Steen, who operated a grocery and wholesale meat business, purchased this site in the Tulsa Way development in 1931, and contracted with Daniel D. Jones to erect his dwelling. The brick-veneer house is composed as a hip-roofed block two stories in height. A curving, front projecting gable with half-timbering provides a reference to … Read more
The Meeker House is a two-story brick structure with a careful use of materials and pictorial composition. The mottled beige brick walls have rustic stone trim and are partially half-timbered on the second story. The moderately pitched gabled roofs are clad in slate. The house was built in 1932 and first owned by Julian and … Read more
Arlington Heights Methodist Church was formally organized in 1923. Continuing growth of the congregation led to the 1928-29 construction of the Religious Education Building which housed church services until 1951. Of buff brick with cast-stone trim, the Tudor Revival structure stands two stories over a high basement. Steeply pitched cross gables and gabled wall dormers … Read more
Edward Hargrave,a salesman , and his wife were the first owners of this house which was constructed about 1910. George and Edith Meissener purchased the house in 1919 for $5,000, and it remained in the Meissner family until the late 1980’s. Mr. Meissner was a clerk with the Railway Mail Service. This two-story Tudor house … Read more
This two-story sandstone veneer residence was one of a number of speculative houses built by Dr. M. J. Bisco in the Southside in the 1920s. It was built and sold in 1927. The purchaser was C. A. Lupton, owner of the Coca-Cola Bottling Co. plant in Fort Worth. The Goldthwaite family has occupied the house … Read more
Oriented toward River Crest Country Club, this house was constructed in 1925 by H. G. Engell, contractor, for Edward B. Ruhlin, a contractor and bricklayer. The hollow tile house with stuccoed exterior is of a generally rectangular plan with receding bays to the east. Two stories in height, the house features an arched porte-cochere on … Read more
This post-war house was designed and built in character with the traditional architecture of the neighborhood. The massing, clipped gabled roofs, diaper-patterned brick walls and Tudor-arched entry all give the appearance of an earlier house. It was built in 1956 by Robert Petrie and Edward Baker for Mr. and Mrs. Otho C. Armstrong. At the … Read more
Organized from a mission begun in 1946, All Saints’ Episcopal Church acquired this triangular lot in 1947. Construction of the present church took place in two phases. In June, 1949, construction began on the parish hall, a long gabled structure of dressed Lueders limestone with a half timbered gabled portico in the Tudor Revival style. … Read more
Dr. M. J. Bisco built this house c. 1929 from a design by his wife, one of several residences built and sold by the Biscoes in the area. In 1934, Sam Letwin purchased the house, and sold it in 1945 to Joel Rosen, Fort Worth entrepreneur and cartoonist, who owned it through the 1960s. The … Read more
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