Feb 8, 2010
Massad House Moved
By: Kevin Buchanan
The Massad House, a large home-turned-office-space that had lived on W. 7th Street for years, has been relocated to its new home on Montgomery Street near the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History and the Fort Worth Community Arts Center. The home was moved this past Saturday, transported in one piece. These photos of the move come to us courtesy of Phillip Poole of local development firm TownSite Company.
The move of the Massad House clears a major obstacle in the path of the next phases of the Museum Place mixed-use development. With the historic home now out of the way, the only buildings left standing on the site of what will be a new mixed-use building featuring apartments over ground-floor retail are the former JJ’s Hideaway and Norma Baker Antiques buildings (the old Post Office, floral shop, and strip mall previously located on the site have of course already been demolished). Two more sites for Museum Place development adjacent to this site are already cleared.
Glad it the house made it to its new home safe and sound.
you got any timeframe on the rest of the demo Kevin as well as a possible date to break ground?
The only thing that’s been mentioned is the two new retail tenants (Social House and Cafe San Miguel). Both of these announced tenants will be going into new buildings that haven’t been built yet. I figure that since they do have some tenants lined up, they’re looking at kicking off the new phase at last.
what about the hotel that was rumored (W?) to be at the old 7-11? Sorry, just very curious, we live on 5th (and office on Magnolia) and our looking forward to more development…
appreciate your site and work bro…
I’m so glad to see that they moved this house instead of tearing it down. I just wish that Fort Worth had had more of a preservation mentality decades ago so that the city wouldn’t have lost so many fine houses. (Summit Avenue from Thistle Hill on down springs to mind.)
Is it on the east side or west side of Montgomery?
I must go see the new location.
Connie, it’s on the west side of Montgomery.
Thanks for posting this. We had seen the house on the beams last week and wondered what was going on. Mystery solved. Keep up the good work.
Great photos! I think I figured out where they put it. That house probably now has the best foundation of any house of that age in the entire city!
It looks like they did this in broad daylight- kinda surprising with traffic and all. I can’t imagine the wrath of the drivers- they go insane at stoplights when traffic is disrupted for events like the upcoming Cowtown marathon.
watched part of the move.great photos