{"nrhp_refnum":"08000317","name":"American Airways Hangar and Administration Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"201 Aviation Wy.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fort Worth","county":"Tarrant County","state":"TX","lat":32.82369878900005,"lon":-97.35605708799994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-04-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 1933 hangar and two-story administration building at Meacham Field (Meacham Airport) in north Fort Worth, Texas, built for American Airways in an Art Moderne style, with a large clear-span hangar attached to an office and passenger building.","why_significant":"It is the oldest surviving building on Meacham Field and was the first permanent company-owned facility for American Airways' Southern Division. It is also argued to be one of few, or perhaps the only, surviving examples of the \"lean-to\" form combining hangar and administration space. It is nominated at the statewide level for transportation and architecture.","narrative":"Built in 1933 at Meacham Field in north Fort Worth, this building joins a large steel-trussed aircraft hangar to a two-story brick administration block that once held offices, a ticket counter and a passenger waiting room. Its Art Moderne styling shows in buff brick veneer, fluted cast stone pilasters, corrugated aluminum spandrels and bas-relief eagles carrying the American Airways emblem. A. Epstein of Chicago designed it and Thomas S. Byrne, Inc., of Fort Worth built it. It was dedicated on October 18, 1933, after the airline moved its Southern Division from Dallas to Fort Worth. It served as the division's headquarters until 1953. Several American Airlines firsts are linked to this location, including its first stewardesses and first transcontinental airplane in 1933. It is the oldest surviving building at the airfield and a rare example of the combined hangar and office \"lean-to\" form. It remains in aviation use with few alterations.","period_of_significance":"1933-1953","architect_builder":"Epstein, A. (architect/engineer, Chicago); Byrne, Thomas S., Inc. (builder, Fort Worth)","architectural_style":"Modern Movement: Moderne","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still in air-related use; owned by the City of Fort Worth and leased to a tenant. Repairs and interior updates were made in 2005, and the building is described as largely intact with high integrity.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:24.13908-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/66/9735/40973566/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/08000317.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000317/9ef36678d1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000317/9ef36678d1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:American_Airlines_Hangar_Fort_Worth.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:American_Airlines_Hangar_Fort_Worth.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973566","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airways_Hangar_and_Administration_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4742968"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/tarrant-county/american-airways-hangar-and-administration-building-08000317/"}