National Register Listing

Oakhurst Historic District

Roughly bounded by Yucca Ave., Sylvania Ave., Watauga Ave., and Oakhurst Scenic Dr., Fort Worth, TX

The Oakhurst Historic District in Fort Worth, Texas is eligible for the National Register of Historic Places under Criterion he A in the area of Community Planning and Development as a suburban middle class neighborhood whose development between 1924 and through 1950s coincided with Fort Worth's growth as a regional industrial and transpiration hub in North Texas. In 1924, the Oakhurst Land Company began promoting the original Oakhurst Addition to the prospective home owners as a development that offered the healthy and wholesome benefits of country living while being just minutes away from Main Street. The Oakhurst Land Company not only sold the lots in the addition but in some cases also built the houses. The firm later engaged the services of the nationally renowned landscape architecture firm of Hare and Hare of Kansas City, Missouri to design blocks in the western portion of Oakhurst Addition as well as the entire West Oakhurst Addition. The layout of these later plats included curvilinear streets that took advantage of the area's undulating topography and wooded terrain. The Oakhurst Historic District provides an excellent collection of housing styles that reflect the changing tastes in residential design. Prior to World War II, the houses built in the district typically were modest Bungalow/Craftsman or Period Revival style homes. Of the latter, the Tudor Revival style predominated. World War II-era and postwar-era houses were derivatives of the Ranch style, contemporary interpretations of Colonial Revival style. Minimal Traditional and late examples of National Folk style houses. The elongated forms of many of these houses were well suited to the lot configurations found in the West Oakhurst section of the neighborhood. For its architectural significance and as an excellent local example of a residential subdivision designed by the landscape architecture firm of Hare and Hare of Kansas City, Missouri, the Oakhurst Historic District is also eligible for the National Register under Criterion C. The district's period of significance is from 1924, the year the first portion of the development was made available to the public, to 1959. The latter year corresponds with the National Register's fifty year criterion. Contextually, the Oakhurst Histeric District relates to the context "Historic Residential Suburbs in the United States, 1830-1960."

Local significance of the district:
Listed in National Register of Historic Places in 2010.