This three-story Art Deco commercial structure housed the operations of Western Union until 1983. Zigzag motifs and polychrome brick and terra-cotta courses, along with the stepped parapets, evidence Davies’s modernist design roots and enliven the streetscape in Sundance Square with its strong emphasis on visual engagement.
Gerald Moorhead et al., "Western Union Telegraph Building", [Fort Worth, Texas], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/TX-02-FW9.
Buildings of Texas: East, North Central, Panhandle and South Plains, and West, Gerald Moorhead and contributors. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2019, 204-204.
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