Swift & Company helped build Fort Worth. Explore the workers, packinghouses, and surviving fragments behind the Stockyards story.
At a former Atlas F site near Abilene, Bruce Townsley shares the unlikely chain of people and skills that helped turn a missile complex into a museum.
Sherman’s Woodmen Circle Home sheltered widows, orphans, and older members for decades. After abandonment, fire, folklore, and demolition, the people who lived there remain the truest history.
Opened in 1933, Fort Worth’s monumental central post office turned an everyday public service into an architectural promise of order, beauty, and connection.
In the middle of downtown Dallas, Philip Johnson’s spiral chapel and Gabriel Loire’s stained glass turn gratitude into a path, a place, and a field of color.
Fort Worth’s immense T&P Warehouse helped shape the railroad city. Now the Art Deco landmark faces a decisive question about preservation, reuse, and its future.
Sugar Land’s Central Unit grew from plantation agriculture, convict leasing, prison labor, and racial violence. Its history still shapes the land and the choices being made for its future.
Ridgmar Mall was once one of west Fort Worth's busiest gathering places. Now, as the fading mall faces a future as Ridgmar 30 Logistics Crossing, Jonny Goodday photographs the architecture, the emptiness, and the memories that remain.
Built in 1895 and closed for half a century, Chico’s First Christian Church is being asked to carry community memory into a new life.
Fort Worth is preparing a $6.5 million renewal of its landmark Water Gardens, beginning with the systems that keep the Active Pool, lighting, landscape, and moving water alive.
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- Beneath Texas: Inside the Atlas Missile Museum and the People Who Saved It
