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Established in 1969 and admitted into the Local Partner program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation in 2001, Historic Fort Worth, Inc. is a non-profit, charitable organization that is dedicated to preserving Fort Worth’s unique historic identity through stewardship, education and leadership. Administrative headquarters, house museum and the Preservation Resource Center are located in the organization’s 1899 Ball-Eddleman-McFarland House at 1110 Penn Street. Historic Fort Worth also owns Thistle Hill (1903) at 1509 Pennsylvania, and the mid-century modern Yates-Ottmann office building (1953) at 1020 Summit Avenue. McFarland House and Thistle Hill, centers of heritage education for children and adults, are available to the public for tours and private events.
Other programs include surveying historic neighborhoods, education on citywide preservation agendas, façade easements, restoration and property management, developer training on economic incentives to rehab historic resources, preservation awards, lists of endangered resources and gifts-of-property. Membership programs include Historic Detectives for children and Tour Today for “grown-ups.” Members explore interesting private and public buildings and receive invitations to all of the organization’s events.
Fort Worth has enviable historic resources that include modest neighborhoods of charming bungalows, grand cattle baron mansions, cherished public schools, signature civic buildings, magnificent religious institutions and elegant bridges. Many of these resources are over 50 years old and have no designation protection from demolition. For information on designations at the local, state and national level please visit our Helpful Links page. Collectively, these historic resources shape Fort Worth’s unique historic identity. It will take all of us working together in order for our children, and their children, and their children to experience Fort Worth’s architectural treasures of the past. Join Historic Fort Worth in that work now.