Marshall Robert Sanguinet (1859–1936) moved to Fort Worth in 1883 after studying architecture at Washington University in St. Louis. His prolific partnerships, first with Howard and Arthur Messer (1892–1896), then with Carl G. Staats (1903–1926) and Wyatt C. Hedrick (1922–1926), produced buildings throughout Texas and beyond. This house is in the Chamberlain Arlington Heights development platted in 1890, which formed the western expansion of the city between the Trinity River to the north and the rail yards to the south. Sanguinet and Howard Messer designed most of the first twenty homes built before 1892, one of which was Sanguinet’s own house. Sanguinet’s first Shingle Style residence burned in 1893, and this second house was built the next year on the foundations of the first. The irregular massing, cross-gabled roof, and prominent dormers hint at Queen Anne style. Sanguinet added a dining room, porch, and a porte-cochere on the east side of the house in 1906. The Sanguinet family owned the house until 1948. Its red pressed brick volumes are articulated by jack arch lintels and corbeling at upper wall corners, in addition to a graceful, almost unseen, shoulder that supports the west side of the front porch.
A few blocks away at 5220 Locke Avenue is the house (c. 1893) Arthur A. Messer built for himself. Messer, a British architect and partner of Marshall Sanguinet, lived here until his return to England in 1905.