Historic Fort Worth, Inc. 1110 Penn Street
Historic Fort Worth, Inc. is dedicated to preserving Fort Worth's unique historic identity through stewardship, education and leadership. | |
We're Celebrating National Preservation Month all May-Long
Proudly Wear a Preservation Pin
Historic Fort Worth, Inc. has released the second in a collectors series of cloisonné lapel pins to commemorate National Preservation Month. The release of the new enameled pin coincided with the May 7th announcement of Fort Worth's Most Endangered Places 2009. The 2008 pin design was of the Will Rogers Coliseum and Pioneer Tower. This year's pin features the Lawrence Halprin-designed Heritage Park Plaza in downtown Fort Worth. The $10 pins will be sold at Historic Fort Worth events, the Ball Eddleman McFarland House, 1110 Penn Street, and at www.historicfortworth.org.
'Heritage Park Matters' T-Shirts & Yard Signs
To raise awareness of the endangered status of Heritage Plaza, Historic Fort Worth is pleased to feature $15 T-shirts with an image depicting Heritage Plaza in happier days when the fountains flowed.
Yellow yard signs with the message: "Heritage Park. It's an Original. Let's keep it that way" are also available for $10.
Heritage Plaza was included on Historic Fort Worth's 2008 and 2009 lists. It's also been named to Preservation Texas' 2009 Texas' Most Endangered Historic Places and the Cultural Landscape Foundation's Marvels of Moderism Landslide list. Located downtown on the bluff overlooking the Trinity River, Heritage Park was closed two years ago by the city of Fort Worth over safety concerns.
Your purchase benefits Historic Fort Worth's dedication to preserve our city's unique historic identity through education, stewardship and leadership and supports the preservation of a most unique historic resource. Please call Historic Fort Worth at 817-336-2344, x111.
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Fort Worth's Most Endangered Places 2009 Announced
Each year, Historic Fort Worth recognizes community historic resources that are threatened by a variety of circumstances including deterioration, neglect, vandalism, encroaching development, or lack of financial resources. Owners of properties named as Most Endangered can receive assistance from Historic Fort Worth to develop tactics to address these issues.
Several of our previously listed sites have experienced remarkable preservation success. The Swift & Company Office Building has been saved and rehabilitated by XTO. In 2006 a thoughtful board of directors gave Thistle Hill to HFW to complete its restoration and coordinate heritage programming with McFarland House. Since then approximately $1,000,000 of $4,000,000 in restoration projects have been completed. To donate to the Thistle Hill Restoration Fund, click here.
Last year, we named Heritage Plaza to our 2008 Most Endangered List. Preservation Texas, included Heritage Plaza on its 2009 Texas' Most Endangered List. The Cultural Landscape Foundation featured Heritage Plaza on its Landslide 2008: Marvels of Modernism. We have experienced first hand the power of the endangered places initiative.
It is our hope that our Fort Worth's Most Endangered Places List will continue to draw public attention to the condition of our city's historic resources and enhance grassroots preservation efforts which often are instrumental in securing the resources to save the sites.
The places on our list represent a unique diversity of sites and each has a compelling reason for endangerment.
Owners of properties named as Most Endangered can receive assistance from Historic Fort Worth to develop tactics to address these issues.
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Sold! On Historic Neighborhoods
Saturday, May 23
9am - 3pm
Thistle Hill,
1509 Pennsylvania Ave.
If you live in - or dream of living in - a home that is at least 50 years old, don't miss the second annual celebration of
Fort Worth's historic homes and neighborhoods!
- Meet experts in buying, selling, restoring, & maintaining historic
homes.
- Learn about Fort Worth's established neighborhoods from those
who know them best, neighborhood residents.
- Listen to the speaker series and see craftsman demonstrations.
- Watch the kids play games and follow the scavenger hunt.
3 - 6pm:
Tour Historic Homes for sale across Fort Worth
$5 per person, Children under 5 Free
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Hidden Gardens of Fort Worth
Tour six charming, very private gardens in Ridglea
Saturday, June 13
9 am - 3 pm
Sunday, June 14
12 pm - 4 pm
$15 per person in advance, $20 per person on tour days
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Thistle Hill Celebrates Restored Pergola
Thistle Hill's pergola has been restored, which completes a priority restoration project of the HFW board. Leading from the main house and continuing west towards the tea house, the passage of latticework and columns was a favorite feature of the gardens until being destroyed by fire in the late 1990s. |
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Tour Today - Sinclair Building
 The Tour Today at the Sinclair Building on February 19 was a huge success, with attendance of 85. Judith Singer Cohen was present to speak about the Zigzag Moderne style and the building's history. Building Manager Bonnie Davidson and her staff then escorted the group to several floors and pointed out the many original details, even peeking "behind the scenes" into the basement. The group then reconvened in the spectacular lobby to sample four amazing wines supplied by Tobacco Lane, a wine shop located in the building. Photo curtesy of John Roberts.
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Charity Antiques Show
 The fourth annual Charity Antiques Show was held February 28 and March 1 in the elegant 1930 Masonic Center, one of Fort Worth's finest Classical Moderne landmarks. The honorees, Virginia and Jenkins Garrett, amassed an impressive collection of antiquarian maps, books, manuscripts and other historical materials, which they generously donated to U.T.A. These collections are available to students and scholars for research. Proceeds from this charitable event benefitted preservation programs of Historic Fort Worth, Inc. including its two historic properties, Thistle Hill and the Ball-Eddleman-McFarland House. Pictured: Virginia Garrett, Marty Leonard, Jenkins Garrett
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