{"nrhp_refnum":"02001515","name":"Fort Worth High School","other_names":["Central No.19, Junior High","Jennings Avenue No. 40","Parker, Ernest Middle No. 150","Homes of Parker Commons"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1015 S. Jennings Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fort Worth","county":"Tarrant County","state":"TX","lat":32.73573124100005,"lon":-97.32987557299998,"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 three-story Classical Revival school building at 1015 S. Jennings Avenue on the Near South Side of Fort Worth, Texas, built in 1909-1911 to designs by Waller and Field and constructed by Innis-Graham.","why_significant":"The building is considered significant for its role in educating Fort Worth's white high school and then junior high students from 1911 until it closed in 1977. It is also an excellent example of Classical Revival design applied to an early 20th-century school. Its monumental presence recalls an era when school districts built substantial schools to show the community's regard for education.","narrative":"Built in 1909-1911 at 1015 S. Jennings Avenue, this three-story Classical Revival school sits on a raised concrete basement on Fort Worth's Near South Side. Designed by the local firm Waller and Field and built by Innis-Graham, it has yellow brick walls with granite insets and pink-tinted cast stone, engaged Tuscan columns beneath a large pediment, and a denticulated metal cornice. It opened as Fort Worth High School in 1911, became the city's first junior high school in 1918, and later carried the names Jennings Avenue Junior High and Ernest Parker Middle School before closing in 1977. For most of those years it served white students only. A 1935 gymnasium was added with Public Works Administration help. After years of vacancy and the loss of its historic interior, the building was rehabilitated in 2001 as apartments. It is recognized for its role in local education and as a well-preserved example of Classical Revival school design.","period_of_significance":"1911-1952","architect_builder":"Waller and Field, architects; Innis-Graham Construction Company, builder; Gideon Toal, architects (1999-2001 rehabilitation); M. Myers Development, Inc., general contractor (1999-2001 rehabilitation)","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Classical Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Rehabilitated 1999-2001 as 86 mixed-income apartments (Homes of Parker Commons); the interior was largely gutted in the 1980s, but the exterior retains a high degree of integrity.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:24.099583-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/32/9735/40973532/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/02001515.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02001515/89d534843e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02001515/89d534843e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fort_Worth_High_School.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:Fort_Worth_High_School.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973532","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._L._Paschal_High_School","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7273801"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/tarrant-county/fort-worth-high-school-02001515/"}