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J. P. Elder Middle School Annex (North Fort Worth High School)

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1918, Sanguinet and Staats. 600 Park St.

The establishment of the Swift and the Armour meat-processing plants on Fort Worth’s North Side at the turn of the twentieth century resulted in the need for new schools for the children of the workers. North Fort Worth High School was built by the Fort Worth Independent School District to address this growth. The Sullivanesque and Wrightian influences of Sanguinet and Staat’s design are evident in both massing and detailing of this red brick building. Focus is on the building’s taller central volume, which lacks a typical portico, and instead the entrances are suppressed into the flanking side wings. The building’s placement at the summit of its sloping site adds to its monumentality. Landscaping and site work improvements were completed in 1937 as a Works Progress Administration project.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Gerald Moorhead et al.
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Citation

Gerald Moorhead et al., "J. P. Elder Middle School Annex (North Fort Worth High School)", [Fort Worth, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-FW50.

Print Source

Buildings of Texas

Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 223-223.

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