Fort Worth's Legendary Landmarks - Hardcover

Roark, Carol

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0875652115 ISBN 13: 9780875652115

Publisher: Texas Christian University Press, 2000

Synopsis

Working with a large-format view camera, Byrd Williams photographed Fort Worth over a thirty-year period. Carol Roark's text highlights photos of eighty buildings whose background and design embody periods in the city's history but whose stories are not well known today.

About this title

From the Publisher

This book captures the visual appeal of a historical city.
"This highly satisfying collection should find equally receptive audiences among nostalgia buffs, architectural historians, and historic preservationists."--Books of the Southwest

From the Back Cover

Although Fort Worth has the trappings of any major metropolitan city - shopping malls, suburbs, and office towers - it is enriched by the many buildings that reflect a colorful and diverse heritage shaped by the frontier, the railroad and other major industries, cattle drives and ranching, oil, and both the poverty of the Depression and the largesse of various benefactors. Presenting the city's most architecturally significant buildings, this volume focuses on historical buildings whose design and background reflect periods of the city's history, but whose stories are not always well known today. Fort Worth's legendary landmarks demonstrate the brick-and-mortar responses the community made to the forces that shaped its history.

Edition details

• Publisher: Texas Christian University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0875652115
• ISBN 13: 9780875652115
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 36