F. W. Woolworth Building (Fort Worth, Texas)

F.W. Woolworth Building
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Woolworth Building in 2011
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Location	501 Houston St., Fort Worth, Texas
Coordinates	32°45′12″N 97°19′52″W / 32.75333°N 97.33111°W / 32.75333; -97.33111
Area	less than one acre
Built	1925 (1925)
Architect	Wiley G. Clarkson, James T. Taylor
Architectural style	Classical Revival
NRHP reference No.	94001359[1]
Added to NRHP	November 25, 1994

The F.W. Woolworth Building is a historic department store building located in Sundance Square section of downtown Fort Worth, Texas. The building served as a retail location for the F. W. Woolworth Company from 1926 to 1990. It now houses other tenants including a JoS. A. Bank Clothiers store.

Designed by Wiley G. Clarkson and James T. Taylor to be ten stories tall, the limestone and concrete structure was only built as a three-story building. The Classical Revival building includes an elaborate frieze. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

See also

• List of Woolworth buildings
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Tarrant County, Texas

References

• National Register of Historic Places TEXAS  - Tarrant County
• National Register of Historic Places Research Page
• Architecture in Fort Worth: Woolworth Building
• "F. W. Woolworth Building". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved March 7, 2009.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to F. W. Woolworth Building.

• Architecture in Fort Worth: Woolworth Building
• Waymarking Photos
• Woolworth Museum

This page was last edited on 1 May 2021, at 13:29