Posts from ‘June, 2007’

We reported on this yesterday, and now the Star-Telegram has picked it up with some quotes from the owners. From Sandra Baker’s article:
The owners of the former Knights of Pythias Hall in the city’s Hillside neighborhood plan to tear down the historic building because they say it is too costly to renovate, raising concern [...]

(Photography for this feature by Kevin Buchanan and Stephen Kinch)
Today’s Urban Home Tour stop is the Texas & Pacific Lofts development on the southside of downtown. Texas & Pacific Lofts is the redevelopment of the historic Texas & Pacific train station, built in 1931. One of Fort Worth’s architectural crown jewels, the T&P [...]

Word has reached Fort Worthology from Janna, at the Hillside Apartments, that the owners of the historic Knights of Pythias building from 1925 in the Hillside neighborhood are planning to demolish the building.
Now, a Knights of Pythias hall is worthy enough of preservation, but what makes this building especially historic is that it was the [...]

(Photography for this feature by Kevin Buchanan and Stephen Kinch)
Today’s stop on the urban home tour is the Neil P. at Burnett Park, the condo redevelopment of the historic Neil P. Anderson cotton exchange building from 1921 in downtown.
The Neil P. at Burnett Park is a downtown Fort Worth luxury boutique condominium development. Built [...]

(Photography for this feature by Kevin Buchanan and Stephen Kinch)
Today’s urban home tour feature is about the Pecan Place Townhomes, in the new Uptown district adjacent to downtown.
Pecan Place Townhomes are three stories with rooftop decks, and feature attractive, brownstone-esque brick facades. The development is at the boundary between downtown and the new Uptown [...]

(Photography for this feature by Kevin Buchanan and Stephen Kinch)
Today, we present the second part of our urban home tour, focusing on the new Le Bijou townhomes on the east side of downtown.
Le Bijou is one of the newest urban living options in Fort Worth. Located on the east side of downtown, they have [...]

(Photography for this feature by Kevin Buchanan and Stephen Kinch)
One of the big parts of Fort Worthology is our Urban Living page, wherein we give you information about Fort Worth’s urban living options. Today, we’re kicking off a series of detailed looks at some urban Fort Worth properties, complete with extensive interior photos. [...]

Just a side note - IE7 users (and perhaps other IE versions as well) may be seeing the new forum without some of its formatting applied (no, the top isn’t supposed to be a big blue box). We will be looking into this problem. The functionality of the forum is not affected.

Finally, after development that took a little longer than we had initially planned, the Fort Worthology Forum has arrived! You can access it via the link in the navbar at top, or by going to fortworthology.com/forum. You must register to post. Check out the welcome message in the Miscellaneous forum for an [...]

It looks like a gorgeous historic downtown landmark may be getting some work soon that’s been a long time in the making. The Downtown Design Review Board is being presented with a plan to build the two huge bell towers originally intended for St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Throckmorton, but never actually completed. The [...]

To make up for our lack of updates this week (caused by some non-Fort Worthology distractions), here’s a Photopalooza from yours truly, Kevin Buchanan, your friendly neighborhood editor-in-chief. Enjoy!