Can You Believe We Demolished This for our City Hall?
#1
Posted 26 May 2007 - 10:45 AM
The two photographs above show the 1896 U.S. Post Office and Courthouse. It was demolished to build the current City Hall. It was constructed out of sandstone and is a shame that we tore it down to build the city building now in its place. What do you think?
#2
Posted 26 May 2007 - 01:13 PM
The two photographs above show the 1896 U.S. Post Office and Courthouse. It was demolished to build the current City Hall. It was constructed out of sandstone and is a shame that we tore it down to build the city building now in its place. What do you think?
I'm already on record in this thread lamenting this loss of this beauty. If I were to pick five demolitions that hurt DTFW the most, they would be
1. Medical Arts
2. Old Post Office / Federal building
3. Aviation Building
4. Continental National Bank rotating clock (don't care much about the building underneath, the clock made the building important)
5. Worth Hotel
Otherwise, I think that losing the M&O Subway was unbelievably tragic. When we lose the confluence of the West and Clear Forks of the Trinity below the bluff, that will pretty much cement our municipal disrespect for our own history, won't it? Does it get any more fundamental than that?
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#3
Posted 26 May 2007 - 01:53 PM
#4
Posted 13 August 2007 - 08:22 AM
The two photographs above show the 1896 U.S. Post Office and Courthouse. It was demolished to build the current City Hall. It was constructed out of sandstone and is a shame that we tore it down to build the city building now in its place. What do you think?
In the 1920s this building not only housed the post office and the Federal court but all of the U.S. Government offices in Fort Worth. When my father went to work for the U.S. Public Roads Administration (now the Federal Highway Authority) in 1925 his office was in this building - I recall his showing it to me when we moved back to Fort Worth in 1956. It says something about the growth of the Federal government since then, doesn't it?
Lonn Taylor
#5
Posted 13 August 2007 - 12:04 PM
Time to listen to a Roy Orbison song on MySpace.
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#6
Posted 13 August 2007 - 12:33 PM
#7
Posted 13 August 2007 - 01:45 PM
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Kara B.
#9
Posted 10 September 2007 - 10:52 AM
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#10
Posted 06 April 2009 - 01:13 PM
#11
Posted 10 August 2009 - 07:46 AM
Fort Worth Texas
#12
Posted 26 October 2011 - 06:33 AM
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#13
Posted 27 October 2011 - 08:50 PM
...may have to just make something up, would make a good ghost story if nothing else.
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Posted 31 May 2012 - 06:38 AM
#15
Posted 17 December 2012 - 10:26 PM
#16
Posted 18 December 2012 - 02:16 AM
On old Fort Worth demolished building, does anyone know where I can find some pictures of the Aviation building? It's history interests me greatly. I've only seen the ones on it's page here.
#17
Posted 18 December 2012 - 03:04 PM
#18
Posted 18 December 2012 - 03:41 PM
#19
Posted 21 January 2013 - 07:17 PM
I was a young man when this building was pulled down. I remember feeling nothing in particular about the building. It never made much of an impression on me for some reason. Obviously it was pretty grand. I do remember feeling almost outraged when they pulled down all of the old buildings on Main St. to build the convention center. I felt that a big part of Fort Worth's history was being ignored and dismissed. I still feel that way. I kind of liked the new City Hall. Maybe that is because I have never used the building or even been inside. I just thought it looked pleasant from the outside. I did not have very refined tastes in those days, but I am the guy who thinks the giant building that replaced the Medical Arts building is not all that bad. The Medical Arts building could not have survived as an office building. It was completely obsolete, lovely to look at but obsolete and mostly devoid of tenants. It would have made a great apartment or condo conversion, but FW was not ready for that kind of thing at the time.
#20
Posted 23 January 2013 - 10:20 PM
Austlar1, I agree with you in that the Medical Arts Building would have made a great residential conversion. I doubt that it would have ever happened before the building would have been torn down. The reason why I say this is that downtown was dying in the 1970's. It was nearly 30 years later before any new residential projects were open; therefore, if First National Bank and their investors had not purchased the building and demolished it to build Burnett Plaza, someone else probably would have torn it down in the latter years of the 1970's or during the 1980's.
#21
Posted 03 March 2013 - 08:11 AM
As a child in 1950s while traveling with my parents, we would drive by this building and it always reminded me of an European castle.
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#22
Posted 12 February 2014 - 01:45 PM
A beautiful old building yet I'm sure it was scorned as most Victorian architecture was by the 1930's. I doubt that it was the same architect as Old Red in Dallas, but a possibility. This style was Romanesque Revival; one of the many revival styles in Victorian architecture. It was made popular by architect, H.H. Richardson, who used it first on his Trinity Church in Boston in 1872. The style is nicknamed Richardsonian Romanesque after him and it was a very popular in the 1880's and 1890's. Many of Texas' courthouses and and commercial structures were done in this style. Fort Worth's old Board of Trade Building and the Original T & P station were also done in this style.
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