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Byrne was founded in Fort Worth in 1923 by Thomas Sneed Byrne, a native Texan and a 1913 graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Byrne completed its first major contract, the Montgomery Ward's Building in Fort Worth, in 1928. [1]
The building is also Fort Worth's largest office tower with over one million square feet of commercial office and retail space. The building was purchased for $137,500,000 in 2021. It was sold in 2023 at a foreclosure auction for $12.3 million. [2]
1904 saw the beginning of the tradition of Fort Worth Fire Department apparatus being painted white. That year, Station #5 had been selected to represent Fort Worth at the annual Texas State Pump race at the State Fair of Texas in Dallas. The members of Company #5 were unable to take their regular apparatus and instead had to use a reserve pumper.
1856 – Fort Worth became seat of Tarrant County. [4] 1873 Fort Worth incorporated. [5] Fort Worth Fire Department established. [6] 1874 – Dallas-Fort Worth telegraph began operating. [7] 1876 – Texas and Pacific Railway began operating. [7] 1882 – Public school established. [4] 1883 – First National Bank of Fort Worth established. [8]
A fireplace or hearth is a structure made of brick, stone or metal designed to contain a fire. Fireplaces are used for the relaxing ambiance they create and for ...
A general contractor is a construction manager employed by a client, usually upon the advice of the project's architect or engineer. [7] General Contractors are mainly responsible for the overall coordination of a project and may also act as building designer and construction foreman (a tradesman in charge of a crew).
Wolf Steel Ltd., better known as Napoleon, is the largest privately-owned manufacturer of fireplaces, grills, and gas furnaces in North America. [2] Based in Barrie, Ontario, Napoleon began in 1976 as a steel fabrication business under the name Wolf Steel Ltd. In 1995, Napoleon was founded after the company diversified its production to include ...
Famed Fort Worth resident Amon G. Carter was the first guest of the new Blackstone Hotel. Sid Richardson had a penthouse in the Blackstone for $750 a month from 1929–1932. The Blackstone was the first skyscraper in Fort Worth to embrace Art Deco architectural elements.