Near Southside
If the name Wiley G. Clarkson rings a bell, it’s because it has come up frequently on these pages. I’ve written about this architectural founding father of Fort Worth beginning with my very first post nearly 10 years ago. Founding father may sound like a bit of hyperbole, but Clarkson’s extensive portfolio includes many fine…
Willing Avenue in my own beloved Ryan Place is another one of those streets like the recently featured Clover Lane that practically constitute neighborhoods within neighborhoods. Willing Avenue is the Near Southside cognate of the Westside’s Clover Lane. Both feature 1920s-era bungalows, many of which began their existence as two-bedroom, single-bath dwellings. These homes often…
Six months on the market? How did we miss this grand Berkley Place manor? Known as the Carroll house, after its first owner, it was reputedly the first house constructed on Ward Parkway in 1928. Built in the then popular Tudor Revival style, by the firm of Mobley & Delaney, who were the developers of…
“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.…
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…
