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[BlueMound]

Is there a reason that the owners of Water Gardens Place overpainted 3 sides of the building with darker brown colors but left the North side of the building with red coral color ?

[RD Milhollin]

Is that Paint? I always thought the "back side" of the building was sort of unfinished, and might have had another building butted up to it at one time, and that when the restoration was done many years back a new facade was created. I looked the building up on the parent website to this forum:

 

http://www.fortworth...om/watergar.htm

 

and sure enough it is paint. 

 

Old photo from 1942

 

http://www.fortworth...teinbusmain.jpg

[John T Roberts]

The north and south walls originally faced into other buildings.  The concrete structure was exposed with brick infill and small windows.  Since the old warehouse was converted into office space, and the buildings on both sides had been demolished, the conversion required larger windows.  Two new facades were built on those north and south walls out of brown brick.  The east and west walls that faced the street were out of buff brick.  Those two walls were painted a few months after the building reopened.

 

Here are some photos online of the building.

 

http://library.uta.e...250f4b52083.jpg

 

http://library.uta.e...00204432588.jpg

[Stadtplan]

Record DG-2023-017: 

Downtown Design Review Board

Record Status: Denied

https://aca-prod.acc...ShowInspection=

 

Work Location

100 E 15TH ST

 

Project Description:

100 East 15th Street

Requests a Certificate of Appropriateness for a waiver from the crown of building sign standards to allow signs with an area of 197.07 square feet instead of the maximum allowed sign area of 100 square feet for an 18 to 100 foot tall building.