Fort Worth’s 1895 courthouse came in under budget—and still cost the county judge and commissioners their jobs. Explore the landmark’s history, restoration and enduring place in the city.
Swift & Company helped build Fort Worth. Explore the workers, packinghouses, and surviving fragments behind the Stockyards story.
Ten years after a roadside interview near Cool, Texas, I returned to Glen and Vicki Zell’s rebuilt home to ask what happened after the tornado. After the Wind follows the recovery that continued long after the cameras left.
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.
The surviving Swift & Company employee staircase and Victorian-era wall in the Fort Worth Stockyards have been named among the city’s most endangered historic places. See the photographs, watch the film and vote in the preservation poll.
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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- Fort Worth’s Courthouse Outlasted the Officials Who Built It
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- Beyond the Cattle Drive: Inside Fort Worth’s Stockyards Museum
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- Beneath Texas: Inside the Atlas Missile Museum and the People Who Saved It
