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First National Bank Building, at 711 Houston St. in Fort Worth, Texas, was built in 1910. It was designed by Sanguinet & Staats with Wyatt C. Hedrick. It has also been known as Baker Building and as Bob R. Simpson Building. [1] It is an 11-story three-part vertical commercial block skyscraper building.
A historic downtown office tower that was one of Fort Worth’s first skyscrapers and most ... XTO Energy in Fort Worth, stands in front of the Baker Building after the company purchased the ...
At 477 feet (145 meters), it is Fort Worth's fifth tallest building. It has 33 floors. Its addresses are Commerce Street, East 1st street, East 2nd Street, and Main Street. It was completed in 1982. It was the tallest building in Fort Worth from 1982 until 1983 when the Burnett Plaza was completed. It is the shorter of the two towers in the ...
Bank of America Tower (until 2017: D. R. Horton Tower [2]) is a building in Fort Worth, Texas. At 547 feet (167 meters), it is the second tallest building in Fort Worth. It has 38 floors. It was completed in 1984. It is surrounded by Calhoun Street, East 2nd Street, Commerce Street, and East 3rd Street.
Fort Worth's history of skyscrapers began with the completion of the 7-story Flatiron Building in 1907. When built, it was the tallest building in North Texas. [3] The Flatiron Building stood as Fort Worth's tallest structure until 1910, with the construction of the 10-story Baker Building (since renamed the Bob R. Simpson Building). [4]
Fort Worth moved a highway about 1,000 feet to rejuvenate a part of downtown in the early 2000s. ... A consulting firm’s 2002 rendering of the proposed Lancaster street remodel. Fort Worth ...
Downtown Fort Worth is the central business district of the city, and is home to many commercial office buildings, including four office towers over 450 feet tall. [5] Radio Shack has its headquarters in Downtown Fort Worth. [6] In 2001 Radio Shack bought the former Ripley Arnold public housing complex in Downtown Fort Worth for $20 million.
Reby Cary, the first Black man elected to the Fort Worth school board and the first Black professor at UT Arlington, was a driving force behind projects to revitalize the East Rosedale area.