Fort Worth Dirt
Why, I can practically hear Aunt Pitty Pat gettin’ the lemonade ready for company. Yes, the most gracious front porch at 4001 Bunting Ave. in Foat Wuth is just welcomin’ the neighbors over for a cold beverage and a nice long chat. The likes you’d see in the deep South, sugah, this front porch. I’m wonderin’…
So sexy and this 4,800 square foot speaks with a French accent as well. These Mansart-roofed houses were criticized when they were built as deviating from classical French architecture. And in truth, the giant arched two-story window units that break through the roof line have no antique precedent but through the lens of time the…
The Fort Worth City Council agreed last month to allow the construction of a 121-acre data center project at Rock Creek Ranch straddling a portion of the Chisholm Trail Parkway just west of Crowley. Supporters tout the project as a potential economic boon for the City of Fort Worth and Tarleton State University. But opponents…
“A million dollars isn’t what it used to be,” legendary oilman H.L. Hunt is reputed to have said. I’m afraid that is the painful reality for buyers in today’s real estate market. Not to take anything away from this undeniably winsome four-bedroom, three-bath house, with over 2,600 square feet after additions. The charmer also sits…
Alright. I am happy in my hundred-year-old Texas Mediterranean house chock-a-block with period antiques. And yet. When confronted with the simplicity and elegance of an outstanding exemplar of the modern idiom, it’s not difficult to lose myself in the reverie of imagining a very different life. Winston Churchill once observed, “We shape our dwellings, and…
