National Register Listing

Grand Avenue Historic District

Roughly Grand Ave. from Northside to Park, Fort Worth, TX

The Grand Avenue Historic District is a remnant of the 19th-century design for the planned suburb of North Fort Worth, and a product of the early 20th-century growth of the city around its burgeoning north-side stockyards and meatpacking industry. Although platted as a township in 1888, the grand plan for North Fort Worth was never fully realized. Grand Avenue, which curves along the crest of the bluff, reflects Nathan Barrett's romantic design for the area, and, as such, is significant in the area of Community Planning and Development. Annexed by Fort Worth in 1909, North Fort Worth proved an attractive area for the growing middle class to build their homes during the city's prosperous years in the early 20th century. Due to its proximity to the Stockyards district (N.R. 1975) and its beautiful vistas, Grand Avenue attracted the newly affluent middle management connected with the meatpacking industry. The opening of a streetcar route in 1889 from downtown Fort Worth along Main Street about a nile cast of Grand Avenue, made North Fort Worth an accessible residential neighborhood for workers and professionals in the city as well. Built between 1906 and 1925, the houses in the district offer a good representation of the popular styles of the period, most predominantly the Bungalow. The historic integrity of the collection makes the district significant in the area of Architecture. The Grand Avenue Historic District meets National Register Criterion A for the period of affluence and growth which it represents in the history of Fort Worth, and Criterion C for its planning aspects and the collective quality of its architecture.

Local significance of the district:
Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 1990.