Built to Outlast Them — editorial cover featuring the ornate dome of the Tarrant County Courthouse in Fort Worth.
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.
The Last Cut: editorial cover combining a historic Swift & Company packinghouse photograph with a modern view of the surviving Fort Worth staircase.
Swift & Company helped build Fort Worth. Explore the workers, packinghouses, and surviving fragments behind the Stockyards story.
Jonny Goodday featured/Facebook cover about the Atlas Missile Museum of Texas at Site 5 in Oplin, using original location imagery
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.
Fort Worth Convention Center Arena with the headline One Last Gathering Under the Dome
Fort Worth gathered beneath its flying saucer arena one last time on September 20th, 2026. A look at 58 years of history, the farewell celebration, and what comes next.
Historic Woodmen Circle Home in Sherman with the title The Home the Woodmen Left Behind
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.
Fort Worth Central Post Office columns and ornate lobby interior
Opened in 1933, Fort Worth’s monumental central post office turned an everyday public service into an architectural promise of order, beauty, and connection.
Who Will Fund Dallas’s Thanks-Giving Square? featured image showing the spiral Chapel of Thanks-Giving
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.
Texas and Pacific Warehouse in Fort Worth with preservation and change headline
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.
Editorial featured image of the surviving Swift & Company staircase in Fort Worth with the words Swift Legacy at Risk.
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.

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