Some faces seen around town:
Graffiti portrait of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo on a boxcar in the 8th Avenue rail yard.
Stone-faced guardian on the 714 Main Building (originally the Farmers and Mechanics National Bank Building) on Main Street. Designed by Sanguinet and Staats and built in 1921, at twenty-four stories this building briefly was the tallest in Texas. The cost? A scootch under $2 million. The building has had several owners. The latest is XTO Energy.
Bas-relief over entry of Farmers and Mechanics National Bank Building.
The Clark brothers, Addison and Randolph, at TCU.
Major Ripley Allen Arnold.
Cameos of the Evans Roma clan on tombstones at Rose Hill Cemetery.
Face on the Trinity Trails bike path, Heritage Park.
Horse fountain at the courthouse.
Jennings Avenue underpass
Dormer of a building on Hemphill Street.
Also on Hemphill Street at Star’s Muffler Shop, this guy looks exhausted.
Mural on Southwest Community Center.
Atop the Bicocchi Building (1909) on South Jennings Street. Louis Bicocchi was a grocer in the late nineteenth century. He and fellow Italian immigrant and grocer Giovanni Battista (John B.) Laneri founded the Fort Worth Macaroni Company in 1899. It became O.B. Macaroni. This face is said to be a likeness of Bicocchi’s daughter Clotilda.
Al Hayne Memorial.
Fort Worth Club Building (1925, Sanguinet and Staats).
Door of the Masonic Temple (1932, Clarkson).
Sign outside Peters Bros. hat shop on Houston Street.
Finally, on a door of the long-vacant Texas & Pacific freight terminal (1931, Hedrick), a face that only a can of Rustoleum could love.
