| Serial Number |
NRS79-13191 |
| Property Name |
Land Title Block/"Daddio's" |
| Property Address |
111 East Fourth Street |
| Architect/Builder |
ARC.: Haggart & Sanguinet |
| Owner |
Ernest Closuit |
| County |
Tarrant |
| City/Rural |
Fort Worth |
| Block |
656 |
| Lot |
3625-13 |
| UTM Coordinates |
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| USGS Map |
3297-431 |
| Construction Date |
1889 |
| Period |
VT |
| Style |
Romanesque Revival |
| Theme |
AARR, ADA, ICCE |
| Description |
A two-story red brick commercial building with flat roof and rectangular plan. This richly-textured and picturesquely composed Victorian building with rough limestone red sandstone trim has wooden framed storefronts on ground level, with arched window on second story with turreted, parapeted and towered corners. Simple parapet terra cotta panels. |
| Building Material: Wall |
Limestone and brick |
| Building Material: Roof |
Gravel composition |
| Physical Condition |
Fair |
| Site: Original |
Yes |
| Site: Moved |
No |
| Site: Date Moved |
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| Alterations |
Minor, poly chrome glazed brick added >> cont . |
| Significance |
The Land Title Block building is perhaps the finest Victorian commercial building remaining in Fort Worth. An eclectic building with touches of the Romanesque, it displays a rich use of materials: fine pressed red brick walls, red sandstone trim, cast-iron columns, red terra cotta decorative panels, and original stained glass windows. Decoration is equally rich, as in the terra cotta panel depicting a mockingbird and an owl in a tree. The building is the oldest surviving work of the >> cont . |
| Area of Significance |
Architecture, Art, Commerce |
| Level of Significance |
Local |
| Designate |
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, 1977 |
| Original Use |
Office building |
| Present Use |
Night club |
| Relationship to Surroundings |
One of two older buildings on vacant land. |
| Acreage/Boundary Description: |
Less than one acre. Lot 9-10, Block 52, City Addition, M. Bauch Survey. |
| Bibliographic Data |
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| See Info/Correspondence Files |
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| Recorded By |
Woody Minor/CHP |
| Informant |
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| Date |
10/10/81 |
| Photo Data |
2 35mm B&W, 1 color slide. CBD 13 |
| Continuation |
>>ALTERATION>> to ground floor pilasters.
>>SIGNIFICNS>> architect M.R. Sanguinet (Haggart & Sanguinet), the oldest structure with decorative stone carving, and the oldest continuously occupied office building in Fort Worth. In addition to a land title company, from which the building in Fort Worth. In addition to a land title company, from which the building took its name, the original occupants included the legal firm of Ross, Head, and Ross, whose initials appear in a terra cotta panel above the second story of the front of the building. In 1971 the Land Title Block Building was listed as a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, and it appears for the National Register. |
