Fort Worth Dirt
This year’s Candlelight Christmas in Ryan Place Home Tour is one fans won’t want to miss. In addition to the usual intriguing mix of five unique houses, there will be live music in tour homes and throughout the neighborhood from the likes of the Texas Wesleyan Choir as well as bands including Music Junkie, Basement…
A few weeks ago we featured the home at 408 E. Oak Street in the popular town (don’t call it a suburb of Fort Worth!) of Aledo. We were impressed because it was a beautiful, functional, and well-located home in Aledo for less than $350,000 — something that we rarely see in real estate these…
“Too expensive to farm and too far out for development.” That’s how Mistletoe Heights was described around 1892 when the Mistletoe Heights Land Company bought the 640 acres of land on the bluffs overlooking the Clear Fork of the Trinity River. The neighborhood is, in fact, a mere two miles south of downtown Fort Worth.…
Today’s Tarrant County Tuesday takes us West to an enchanted stretch of S. FM 4 called Lone Camp in Palo Pinto County. This might be the most challenging article I’ve written in the eight years with CandysDirt.com. (Yeah, Candy, where’s my anniversary gift?) This is a story of a property that doesn’t fit cleanly in…
Reduced by $20,000, listed at 20 percent below the median square foot price for the neighborhood, marvelously move-in ready, and inexplicably 76 days on the market … What’s up with that? Technically, 2600 Lipscomb Street is in Ryan Place but the house was not part of the original, first-ever planned development in Fort Worth orchestrated…
