Established in 1969 and selected in 2001 as a Local Partner of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Historic Fort Worth, Inc. is a non-profit, membership organization. Historic Fort Worth recognizes that preservation is an important gift one generation makes to the next, and is dedicated to preserving Fort Worth’s unique historic identity through education and leadership. Programs at Historic Fort Worth include the Preservation Resource Center for historic property research, updating the organization’s Tarrant County Historic Resources Survey ©, History Detectives Children’s Program, Tour Today adult educational program, emergency education, façade easements, restoration, property management, awards and gifts-of-property. Historic Fort Worth, Inc. owns, operates and restores the Ball-Eddleman-McFarland House and Thistle Hill, and makes them available to the public for events and tours.
Members of Historic Fort Worth receive invitations to all events, as well as subscriptions to the newsletter, Preservation Perspectives. They are invited to tour important buildings through HFW's Tour Today program, and have the satisfaction of knowing that their membership influences city-wide preservation issues. Through its children's educational program called History Detectives, HFW's youngest members (ages 6-13) are invited to explore landmark buildings and search for identifying architectural treasures.
Fort Worth has enviable built resources in all sectors of the city -from modest neighborhoods of 1920s and 1930s era bungalows, to grand cattle barons' mansions, from cherished historic schools and other public buildings, to magnificent religious institutions and transportation buildings. Many of these buildings are over 50 years old. Collectively, they create a virtual art museum of historic architecture in our city that gives Fort Worth its unique identity.
Search Historic Fort Worth’s 2007 Survey of the South Side of Fort Worth