{"nrhp_refnum":"01001472","name":"Central Handley Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by E. Lancaster Ave., Forest Ave., Kerr St., and Handley Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fort Worth","county":"Tarrant County","state":"TX","lat":32.73303474000005,"lon":-97.21912545922928,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-01-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Community Planning and Development","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small commercial historic district in the former community of Handley, now far east Fort Worth, Texas, centered on the north side of the 6500 block of East Lancaster Avenue. It has 12 resources, mostly 1-story Commercial Style brick buildings built between about 1910 and 1933.","why_significant":"The district is the best surviving ensemble of early 20th-century commercial buildings in East Fort Worth, from the heyday of the Interurban, and it was the commercial core of a railroad town platted in 1885. It holds businesses such as a feed store, dry goods store, drug stores and post offices, and it includes an unusual sandstone and petrified wood building. The form says most contributing buildings keep their historic integrity.","narrative":"Handley was platted by the Texas and Pacific Railway in 1885, and this district preserves its commercial core, about seven miles east of downtown Fort Worth. Most of the 12 resources are 1-story Commercial Style brick storefronts built between about 1910 and 1933 along the north side of East Lancaster Avenue, originally Front Street. Their widths follow the original 25-foot lots, and the buildings sit close to the street on two-tiered curbs. The district also includes a 1924 metal-sided feed store, a Folk Victorian house and a 1930s drug store built of sandstone and petrified wood. Businesses here included groceries, drug stores, a bank, a theater, dry cleaners and post offices. Ten buildings contribute to the district's character, while two are counted as noncontributing because of stucco and replaced windows. A 1989 survey called it the finest ensemble of commercial buildings in East Fort Worth from the heyday of the Interurban, and that assessment supports its listing.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"George Steven Carmack, contractor (attributed); V.L. Purselley, contractor; B.B. Adams, contractor","architectural_style":"Late 19th-Early 20th Century American Movements: Commercial Style; Later Victorian: Folk Victorian","criteria":[],"status_note":"Current uses include specialty stores, businesses and restaurants; at least one building is listed as vacant. A feed store has operated continuously in the 1924 Howell building.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:23.329556-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/10/9735/40973510/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/01001472.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01001472/f777f9a2b5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01001472/f777f9a2b5-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Handley1_(1_of_1).jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Renelibrary</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Handley1_(1_of_1).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973510","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Handley_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5061154"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/tarrant-county/central-handley-historic-district-01001472/"}