Films
Go inside remarkable buildings, meet the people protecting their stories, and notice the details most of us pass every day.
Featured films
Longer stories and memorable places selected as an introduction to the Jonny Goodday film archive.
Beneath Texas
Descend into a decommissioned Atlas F missile silo and meet the people preserving its machinery and memory.
Watch on FacebookRise of the Silent Mill
A forgotten Gold Medal mill and the legacy held in one of North Texas’s oldest surviving industrial structures.
Watch on FacebookInside Museo Benini
Step into a vivid museum shaped by artist Benini and the remarkable creative life he built with Lorraine Benini.
Watch on FacebookThe House That Art Built
An unusual handmade home where curved roofs, towers, color, and imagination turn architecture into sculpture.
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Architecture and preservation
Historic structures are not frozen objects. These films show how people restore, reuse, and continue living with the places that shaped their communities.
The Old Mill and the Grainhouse
Brian Walker shares the deeper history of the Old Rhome Mill and the restoration that gave part of it a new life.
Watch on FacebookThe Stockyards Museum
Go beyond the familiar Stockyards and meet the people preserving the artifacts and stories inside the Livestock Exchange Building.
Watch on FacebookLiving Inside Montgomery Plaza
A resident explains how a former Montgomery Ward landmark became a home without losing the architecture that gives it character.
Watch on FacebookThe Public Market Returns
Walk through the restoration of Fort Worth’s 1930 Public Market and see how its next chapter is taking shape.
Watch on FacebookInside the Central Post Office
Marble floors, brass boxes, intricate ceilings, and nearly a century of civic architecture hidden in plain sight.
Watch on FacebookFrom Ranch Style Beans to Texas Whiskey
See how a familiar industrial building became Trinity River Distillery while keeping the history visible in its walls.
Watch on FacebookField discoveries
Short observations about architecture, public art, and overlooked history that reward a closer look.
Learning to See the City
Join a Downtown Fort Worth Walking Tour and discover the buildings, markers, and stories most people pass without noticing.
Watch on FacebookWhy Thanks-Giving Square Matters
A closer look at the uncertain future of a landmark built around architecture, public art, gratitude, and reflection.
Watch on FacebookJFK’s Final Morning in Fort Worth
The tribute in General Worth Square marks the city where President Kennedy began the final morning of his life.
Watch on FacebookThe Flatiron Building
Look closely at one of Fort Worth’s earliest steel frame buildings and the details hidden in its narrow wedge shaped design.
Watch on FacebookThe Panther Fountain
A small fountain beside the Flatiron Building carries the story behind Fort Worth’s Panther City identity.
Watch on FacebookCowtown in the Columns
Longhorn and shorthorn carvings give the grand Central Post Office an architectural detail that belongs unmistakably to Fort Worth.
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