Historic Designations:
National Register of Historic Places
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark
City of Fort Worth Historic & Cultural Landmark
The Woman's Club of Fort Worth fill an entire city block along the north side of the 1300 block of Pennsylvania Ave. The campus consists of four large historic houses constructed between c.1903 and 1911. They were acquired by the club between 1923 and 1954. The houses evolved over the years to meet the needs of the organization with the last renovation occurring in 1966. Three newer buildings were constructed between 1925 and 1949. They serve as links between the historic houses. In 1929, one of the carriage houses was converted into an art studio. All of the buildings, including the historic houses, have been painted white to unify the campus. The historic houses reflect aspects of the Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Italian Renaissance Revival, and Craftsman styles of architecture. The campus includes two historic gardens and numerous historic landscape features that complement the buildings. One of the gardens was designed by Hare & Hare from Kansas City, Missouri. The other garden was designed by Carter & Burgess of Fort Worth.
Below are the individual campus buildings with their physical addresses and descriptions as headed westbound on Pennsylvania Ave.:
Florence Shuman Hall - 1302 Pennsylvania Ave. - c.1910; 1915; 1936; 1991
William G. Newby Memorial Building - 1316 Pennsylvania Ave. - c.1910-11
Anna Shelton Hall (Addition to William G. Newby Memorial Building) - 1925-26
May R. Waples Hall (Addition to Anna Shelton Hall) - 1949
Bewley Hall and Gallery (Connection between Newby Memorial Building and Ida Saunders Hall) - 1929-30; 1966
Ida Saunders Hall - 1320 Pennsylvania Ave. - 1903; 1936
Art Department Studio (Carriage House to Ida Saunders Hall) - 1903; 1929
Margaret Meacham Hall - 1326 Pennsylvania Ave. - c.1904; 1929;
Friendly Gates and Schuman Fence - 1933; 1950; 1965; 1972
Benjamin Johnson Tillar Memorial Garden - 1933
Memorial Garden - 1962-67