Beautiful Backsides

Here are views of the rear of four buildings that we usually see from the front.

First is the backside of Fort Worth High School (1911, also called “Central High School”) on Jennings Avenue. It is now the Homes of Parker Commons apartments.

Next is the rear of the Victorian Ball-Eddleman-McFarland house (1899) on Penn Street in the neighborhood once known as “Quality Hill.” Designed by the firm of Messer, Sanguinet, and Messer.

Third is a detail of the rear of the art deco T&P passenger station (1931) downtown, designed by the firm of Wyatt C. Hedrick.

Bringing up the . . . final entry is the seventy-foot siren tower (left) at the rear of the art deco central fire station downtown (1930). If the tower looks vaguely familiar but somehow shorter than you remember, that building, too, was designed by the firm of Wyatt C. Hedrick, who six years later designed the 208-foot Pioneer Tower (right) at the Will Rogers complex.

 

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