Fort Worth Dirt
When Fort Worth began to make the transition from an abandoned military outpost to a proper town, its first wave of wealthy citizens made their homes to the northeast of downtown on a bend in the Trinity River. This was Samuels Avenue. The area was once part of a plantation that, after several sales, became…
In a recent move, Dallas-based PMB Capital Investments bought the 3,790-acre historic Veale Ranch west of Fort Worth for a planned development that could total $5 billion in value.
You know a property is special when you don’t even have to say the address to people. Just tell them the name and people know what you’re talking about. It’s sort of like famous people with one name — Madonna, Pelé, Jordan, Beyoncé, Bono, Cher, Prince — you don’t even have to say their last…
Texas gained its independence more than 175 years ago, but the influence of its Spanish roots still captures our romantic imagination and inspires architectural tributes to that past. I have, from childhood, been enamored of the idiom and after many years have finally fetched a Texas Spanish style abode of my own. Come on in!…
Remember the phrase your seventh-grade football coach would repeat over and over as he was sitting in the shade while you’re doing rolls up and down the football field because John Ridd thought it would be funny to “moon” someone (who turned out was the coach’s wife) while on the school bus coming home from…
