Posts from ‘June, 2007’

We have a winner in this past Monday’s Mystery Building post - user dredgemortle correctly guessed that the image above was a portion of the historic Fort Worth Club building in downtown. Congrats!

It’s official, folks - the historic Knights of Pythias Hall in eastern downtown in the Hillside neighborhood has been saved from the wrecking ball! The building now has a contract on it by the TownSite Company, who are also behind the Depot Lofts just down the street. I’ll let Mr. Phillip Poole of [...]

The Fort Worth chapter of the American Institute of Architects has released a list of their 25 favorite buildings in Fort Worth. On the whole, it’s a great list, and I’d love to hear the community’s comments. The buildings are:

The Kimbell Art Museum
Marty Leonard Chapel
Tarrant County Courthouse
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Texas & [...]

Exciting news on the Knights of Pythias building on the east side of downtown! The historic structure, built as the home of an African-American Knights of Pythias lodge in the ’20s and in a state of severe neglect, was to be demolished at some point in the not-too-distant future. However, after efforts by [...]

The Scat Jazz Lounge, which was originally supposed to open in the basement of the Burk Burnett Building, will now be opening in the basement of the Woolworth Building next door. This will put the jazz lounge under the Joseph A. Bank store and the Milan Gallery. Lounge singer Ricki Derek has said [...]

Time for another Mystery Building! We’re quizzing you, the readers, on your knowledge of Fort Worth’s built environment by showing a small detail shot of a particular building in urban Fort Worth, and asking you all out there to try and figure out its identity. Winners receive a good dose of positive self worth (we [...]

XTO Energy continues its amazing track record of historic building preservation. The company, which began by restoring the W. T. Waggoner building for its corporate headquarters and continued with amazing restorations of the Simpson Building next door and the Swift & Co. building in the Stockyards has now turned its attention to the Petroleum [...]

An update on the Knights of Pythias Hall on the east side of downtown that was marked for demolition. From Janna at the Hillside Apartments:
I hear from a very reliable source that the Knights of Phythias WILL NOT BE TORN DOWN after all. I’ll keep you posted!!!
This is fantastic news, and we really hope [...]

Two City Place, the Class-A office space redevelopment of one of the old Tandy Center towers, is coming along very well, and above you can find a shot of the tower’s new look. There doesn’t appear to be much work left to do on the exterior of the tower - basically completing the new [...]

Work proceeds on the new landmark Tarrant County College campus in downtown. Above, you can see a view into the large pit dug into the Trinity Bluffs for the downtown side of the campus. Parts of the structure are at last starting to rise from the pit. The college extends back into [...]

The Caceria Building, the new 7-story mixed-use office/retail building in Sundance Square, is inching its way upwards. The building, being built by Wagner Oil, is at the corner of 5th & Commerce across from the Bass Hall and the new Embassy Suites Hotel. It was designed by Fort Worth’s own Gideon Toal. [...]

The Carnegie, the new mixed-use office/retail tower in Sundance Square, is proceeding nicely, and we thought we’d bring you some updated construction shots. Crews are passing the third floor of this 16-story, 236 ft. building designed by David Schwarz. A finished rendering is below.

Cantey-Hangar Plaza, the new four story mixed-use office/retail building going up on 6th Street across from 500 West 7th and Burnett Plaza, has gotten underway. Crews have already demolished the old bank drive-through on the site and have scraped it level. Looks like they’re not wasting time on this one. A rendering [...]

Just an FYI - don’t forget to check Fort Worthology throughout the day, because we’ve got about five or six updates coming your way!

Fort Worthology previously reported on West 7th, the upcoming development by Cypress Equities on the old Acme Brick site on 7th Street. We have now learned that the project is much larger than we had originally thought.
West 7th will be bounded by 7th on the north, Morton on the south, Foch on the east, [...]

According to lounge singer Ricki Derek, the Scat Jazz Lounge going in to the basement of the Burk Burnett Building in downtown is back on track after a few delays. The lounge is now scheduled for an October opening. This promises to be a nice venue that, hopefully, will bring back some of [...]

As an aside to our previous post about the TCC Campus, there’s been one thing bugging us - what are we going to name all the stuff the TRV will be bringing us?
Think about it - the TRV will be giving us a new bypass channel, a new lake where the Clear Fork and West [...]

We’ve been hearing some rumblings lately about how the new TCC downtown campus currently under construction is a mistake, that it’s too expensive, that TCC should be a simple place to educate students and not concern itself with important landmark structures, etc. etc. etc. Most of this is likely spurred by the recent cost [...]

EDIT: Congrats to Joel - it is indeed the Jubilee Theater on Main in downtown! This building’s original name is the Jarvis Building. It was built in the late 1800s, making it one of the oldest buildings in downtown. At some point one half the building was stucco’d over, but that [...]

So, I can’t help but notice that Fort Worthology’s friend Steve-O has finally visited the fine folks at Spiral Diner. Steve, what took ya so long? Folks, listen to your old pal Kevin here when he says that if you’re not eating at Spiral Diner, you should be. I don’t care if [...]

Time for another Mystery Building! We’re quizzing you, the readers, on your knowledge of Fort Worth’s built environment by showing a small detail shot of a particular building in urban Fort Worth, and asking you all out there to try and figure out its identity. Winners receive a good dose of positive self worth [...]

Been noticing something in the night skyline lately? Or, rather, not noticing something? In what strikes us as very disappointing news, Pier One Imports has officially turned off the stunning night lighting on their world headquarters Pier One Place tower to save money. No more giant lit up crown or shaft of [...]

We’re starting a new feature here at Fort Worthology, and this one’s for fun and educational value. We’re going to be quizzing you, the readers, on your knowledge of Fort Worth’s built environment by showing a small detail shot of a particular building in urban Fort Worth, and asking you all out there to [...]

No rendering yet, but at the corner of Magnolia & Henderson PD Development is planning a new mixed-use development that will have ground floor retail and upper floor office space and luxury apartments. Not a lot of info on this one yet, but we’ll bring you more as we hear it. This development [...]

If you’ve been near the big University/7th/Camp Bowie/Bailey intersection in the Cultural District lately, you’ve probably noticed the huge amount of work now going on there. That’s right - the first building of the Museum Place mixed-use development is underway! This first building will be a retail, office, and residential building. A [...]