{"nrhp_refnum":"02001512","name":"Hogg, Alexander, School","other_names":["District 11 School No. 11","Homes of Parker Commons"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"900 St. Louis Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fort Worth","county":"Tarrant County","state":"TX","lat":32.736982230000024,"lon":-97.32899851799999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-12-12","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Education","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story, I-shaped Beaux Arts-inspired former elementary school at 900 St. Louis Avenue on the Near South Side of Fort Worth, Texas, built in 1909 to designs by architect M. L. Waller and now used as apartments.","why_significant":"The school is argued to be locally significant under Criterion A for its role in educating Fort Worth's youth on the Near South Side, and under Criterion C for its Beaux Arts-inspired architecture as an early 20th-century Fort Worth school. Its exterior retains a high degree of integrity despite significant interior changes.","narrative":"Built in 1909 on Fort Worth's Near South Side, this two-story school served elementary children of the city's Eleventh District and, for a time, upper seventh and lower eighth graders. Architect M. L. Waller designed the I-shaped building, and the Innis-Graham Construction Company built it. It rests on a rusticated concrete basement, with yellow brick walls, brown brick quoins and pilasters, a denticulated metal cornice, and a name block with egg-and-dart molding. It was named for Alexander Hogg, the district's first superintendent of schools. Contemporary accounts called it the biggest grammar school building in Texas, with sixteen rooms. Because Fort Worth schools were segregated, it served white students for most of its history. The school closed in 1968, sat vacant for years after a 1984 sale, and was rehabilitated into 24 apartments by 2001. The interior was heavily altered, but the exterior remains largely intact, which supports its recognition for education and architecture at the local level.","period_of_significance":"1909-1952","architect_builder":"Waller, M.L., architect; Innis-Graham Construction Company, builder","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Beaux-Arts","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Converted to 24 apartments in 1999-2001 as part of the Homes of Parker Commons complex; the building had stood vacant after being sold in 1984 until it was purchased in 1999.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:23.341367-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/30/9735/40973530/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/02001512.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02001512/1841c51132-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02001512/1841c51132-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hoggschool1.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Renelibrary</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hoggschool1.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973530","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110002291"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/tarrant-county/hogg-alexander-school-02001512/"}