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[Stadtplan]

ramjet, those are some great photos...thanks for sharing!

[Stadtplan]

Here's a few photos from yesterday.  I won't have time to do any edits, this is straight off the camera:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[ramjet]

Great pics, Nitixope.  The ones of St. Andrews church are especially terrific.  John, thanks for leading our group.  I always learn something new on these tours.  Fort Worth, and Dallas too, both have some amazing church buildings from yesteryear that are still alive and functioning today.  The magnificence of the architecture and the architectural details tells me that faith was very important to the people who built our City, and apparently still is, which I'm glad.

 

BTW, the St. Andrew's organist gave the tour group a mini organ concert on their awe inspiring organ.  It made my Christmas this year.

[rriojas71]

When is the next walking tour taking place?

[John T Roberts]

The next walking tour should be on January 13th at 9 AM.  We meet at the patio of the T&P Tavern.

[rriojas71]

Excellent.  Thanks JTR

[John T Roberts]

For those who want to make a day of it tomorrow, immediately after the walking tour, the Fort Worth Stock Show All Western Parade starts in Downtown Fort Worth.  If those two events are not enough for you, Tarrant County is hosting tours of the Historic Tarrant County Courthouse from 12:30 until 3 PM. 

[John T Roberts]

I led the walking tour, attended the Stock Show Western Parade, went on the Courthouse Tour, and ate lunch at Riscky's.  It was a fun day. 

[John T Roberts]

If you missed the Tarrant County Courthouse Tour, there will be another one during the Main Street Arts Festival.

[Stadtplan]

Walking Tour 2/10/24 (one advantage of a smaller group was we got to go inside a couple buildings.)

T&P














(Some stools were holding up these mountings but I tried to get a shot of the bottom 3)






Post Office


















T&P Warehouse












Hollywood Theater Lobby


FW Club


Sandman Hotel

[John T Roberts]

Nice photos, as usual, Nitixope.  The tour was a lot of fun co-leading with Brian Ketcham.  The rain wasn't bad.  This also shows to the forum that the tours are very rarely cancelled and we go rain, shine, heat, or snow.

[John T Roberts]

The Downtown Walking Tour scheduled for March 9th covers the Banks That Built Fort Worth.  It will give us another chance to take a look at the Sandman Signature Hotel. 

[John T Roberts]

Austin just mentioned this in another thread.  The Downtown Fort Worth Walking Tour leaves Downtown in the month of April for a tour of the Near Southside.  We can't cover all of the area, but we do hit the far northern section that is accessible from the Texas & Pacific Railway Terminal.  The tour will be held at 9:00 AM on April 13.  To sign up, go to Tim Young's website at: https://www.timdyoung.com/tours/

[Stadtplan]

Austin just mentioned this in another thread.  The Downtown Fort Worth Walking Tour leaves Downtown in the month of April for a tour of the Near Southside.  We can't cover all of the area, but we do hit the far northern section that is accessible from the Texas & Pacific Railway Terminal.  The tour will be held at 9:00 AM on April 13.  To sign up, go to Tim Young's website at: https://www.timdyoung.com/tours/

 

Any word on getting inside of Broadway Baptist?

[John T Roberts]

Unfortunately, no. I'm going to try to reach out again this week.  However, I have a minor procedure for my dental implants, so I may be out of commission, some.

[TLA]

Thank you, John, for leading the walking tour of Near Southside. The weather was perfect. I learned a lot. Snapped these pictures:
 
104 S Main, built in 1930.

 

 
Miller Mfg. Co. Factory - 311 Bryan St. 1910

 
On Bryan, The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen (B of LF&E)

 
Fire Station No. 5, 503 Bryan St from 1911. New Nobleman Hotel

 

 

 
View of Willow & Wise from Broadway, looking North.

 
Broadway Baptist

 
Construction on the accessibility entrance of the new. Trinity Presbyterian Church. Originally Temple Beth-El, 1920.

 
Lovely St. Louis Ave between the two churches

 

 
Bicocchi Building - 213 S. Jennings Ave. - c.1909. Assuming this was built immediately after the fire.



 
Tarrant County's oldest standing school house. Golfer Ben Hogan and actress Ginger Rogers had classes here. Originally built in 1892. expanded in 1910 and functioned as a school until 1977

[John T Roberts]

The Bicocchi Building was built immediately after the fire.  However, he had owned the property since 1899 and actually built several commercial buildings on the site before the Southside Fire in 1909.  We talked a little bit about the Fort Worth High School across Jennings Ave. on the tour.  It actually survived the fire in 1909, but ironically was destroyed in 1910 by a fire.  The good news was that the FWISD had voted prior to the fire to replace the building with a newer and larger high school on South Jennings.  It was completed in 1911.