| Serial Number |
NRS82-14021 |
| County |
Tarrant |
| City/Rural |
Fort Worth |
| Name |
North Side Junior High School - J.P. Elder Middle School |
| Address |
709 NW 21st Street |
| Owner |
Ft. Worth Independent School District |
| Owner Address |
3210 W. Lancaster Avenue, Fort Worth, TX |
| Block/Lot |
N. Ft. Worth Addn., Block A-2 |
| USGS Quad Number |
3297-431 |
| Site Number |
NN-10 |
| UTM |
653-3628 310 42 |
| Date: Factual |
1927 |
| Date: Estimated |
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| Architect/Builder |
W.G. Clarkson |
| Contractor |
Butcher & Sweeney |
| Style/Type |
Eclectic/Jacobean |
| Original Use |
School |
| Present Use |
Same |
| Description |
A very large two-and-one-half-story school, with raised basement and two full stories. U-rectangular plan, paired windows separated by buttress piers, projecting end-bays and central entrance bay with Tudoresque arch, massive cast-stone surround with pediment surmounted by turret-like piers flanking central cont. of arches. Walls clad in polychromed brick, cast-stone belt-courses and coping. |
| Present Condition |
Good; >> cont . |
| Significance |
J.P. Elder Middle School, originally called North Side Junior High School, was built in 1927. Renamed for John Peyton Elder, a retired Swift & Co. executive and Board of Education member, the two and a half story structure was designed by Wiley G. Clarkson, an architect known for his school designs in period revival styles. Construction of the building was completed by Butcher and Sweeney. Polychrome brick and cast-stone trim clad the two stories over a high basement. The U-plan features a central entry bay with a cast stone Tudor arch framed by turret-like piers. A Tudor Revival parapet with battlements of >> cont . |
| Relationship to Site: Moved |
No |
| Relationship to Site: Moving Date |
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| Relationship to Site: Original Location |
Yes |
| Relationship to Site: Describe |
Part of three-school complex >> cont . |
| Bibliography |
Fed. Writer's Project, Clarkson Monograph, School Archives, Park Dept. Notes, Leon >> cont . |
| Informant |
|
| Recorder |
Woody Minor |
| Date |
9 September 1985 |
| Designations: TNRIS No. |
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| Designations: THC Code Number |
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| Designations: RTHL |
No |
| Designations: HABS |
No |
| Designations: HABS Number |
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| Designations: NR Individual |
No |
| Designations: NR Historic District |
No |
| Designations: NR Thematic |
No |
| Designations: NR Multiple Resource |
No |
| Designations: NR Filename |
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| Designations: Other |
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| Photo Data: B&W 4x5's |
1 |
| Photo Data: Slides |
Yes |
| Photo Data: 35mm Negatives |
No |
| Continuation |
>>PRESCOND>> ceilings inside lowered for air conditioning-windows partially enclosed.
>>SIGNIFICNS>> cast stone caps the front elevation. Complementing the earlier North Side High School (NN-9) across the street, the school is one of a three-school complex in Circle Park. Though its ceilings have been lowered, enclosing the upper two-thirds of the windows, the building has survived otherwise intact.
>>RELATDESCR>> in park-like hilltop setting.
>>BIBLIOGRAF>> Mitchell, Jr. letter. |
