Architecture in Cowtown is a marriage of classic and modern. Here are some classic structures juxtaposed against big blue boxes.
Courthouse (1895, Gunn and Curtiss).
Knights of Pythias lodge hall (1901, Sanguinet and Staats).
Plaza Hotel (1908). The hotel, built by Winfield Scott, opened as the Inman Hotel. Scott spent $300,000 ($8.1 million today) on his Fort Worth buildings in 1908, including building the Inman and Terminal hotels and expanding the Metropolitan Hotel. That year Scott also built a two-story commercial building on the courthouse square, tearing down the two oldest buildings in town, built in 1859, one of brick, one of adobe.
Central post office (1933, Hedrick).
Clock tower of the Intermodal Transportation Center.
Henderson Street bridge (1930).
Tombstone at Pioneers Rest Cemetery (1850).
Western Union Building (1931, James B. Davies Sr.).
Texas Electric Service Company Building (1930, Hedrick) and St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church (1912, Sanguinet and Staats).
Waggoner Building (1920, Sanguinet and Staats).
Woolworth Building (1926, Clarkson).
Blackstone Hotel (1929, Withers and Mauran, Russell & Crowell).
Bicocchi Building (1909) on Jennings Avenue.
Burk Burnett Building (1914, Sanguinet and Staats).
Meacham Building (foreground) (built for Sanger Brothers) (1925, Clarkson) and Burk Burnett Building.
Texas & Pacific passenger terminal (1931, Hedrick).
City National Bank (1885, Haggart and Sanguinet).
Farmers and Mechanics National Bank (1921, Sanguinet and Staats).
Greater St. James Baptist Church (1918).
The Knights of Pythias building was torn down. This is a copy by Bobby Bass and friends.
Thanks, Earl. As I commented in Cowtown Yoostabes, Fraternal Edition: Welcome to the Hall, Y’all, Fort Worth Forum calls the building a “restoration.” Tarrant County Historical Resources Survey calls the building a “rehabilitation.” Both sources give the building the dates of the 1901 construction and the 1981-1982 restoration/rehabilitation. The 1901 cornerstone is in the south wall.