Fort Worth Westside
Discreetly tucked into a wooded one half acre lot, it is in the still strongly popular mid-century modern idiom.
Last week I rifled through so many pages (over 100) on a real estate site, in search of a Fort Worth Friday worthy of our audience, that a prompt intervened to make me prove I wasn’t a bot! This week, it seems, I’m spoiled for choice.
I’ve written about the charmed streets of Clover Lane and Clarke before. Many things mark the area as special. For me, personally, it’s the street where my father grew up. Several of my friends started their lives and careers in Fort Worth on these tree-lined streets. Neighborhood camaraderie is quite strong. Its location is…
Tucked into a quiet Westside location, only blocks from Rivercrest Country Club, Museums, and 7th Street shops and restaurants, 4051 Modlin Avenue sports classic Colonial style and a generous 4,700 square feet of living space. The façade is pleasingly symmetrical capped at the center by a broken pediment surmounting a graceful arched window.
“You’d be so nice to come home to.” So said Cole Porter, but famously remembered by the snazzy cover of Frank Sinatra in his heyday. That heyday was in the 1950s, which was when this honey of a house was built. The 1950 build is located only a few blocks from the bustling Westside corridor…
