{"nrhp_refnum":"09000981","name":"First National Bank Building","other_names":["Baker Building","Bob R. Simpson Building"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"711 Houston St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fort Worth","county":"Tarrant County","state":"TX","lat":32.75445834100003,"lon":-97.33080685599998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-12-03","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"An 11-story steel-frame office building at 711 Houston Street, at Seventh and Houston in downtown Fort Worth, Texas. Sanguinet & Staats designed it in 1910, and Wyatt C. Hedrick designed a 1926 addition.","why_significant":"The nomination finds it locally significant under Criterion A for Commerce and Criterion C for Architecture as a Beaux-Arts commercial block. It is also eligible under Criterion B for its link to Captain Martin B. Loyd, who founded Fort Worth's first bank and then the First National Bank. The building housed the bank for decades and was restored in the early 2000s.","narrative":"Rising eleven stories at the corner of Seventh and Houston streets in downtown Fort Worth, this steel-frame office building began in 1910 to designs by Marshall Sanguinet and Carl Staats. Wyatt C. Hedrick designed a 1926 addition that doubled the Houston Street front to seven bays and carried the original Beaux-Arts ornamentation across it. The facades divide into a base, shaft and capital, marked by two cornices, with Ionic pilasters, garlands, keystones and large carved brackets. The First National Bank occupied the ground floor throughout the building's period of significance. The building is tied to Captain Martin B. Loyd, an early settler who opened Fort Worth's first bank in 1870 and incorporated the First National Bank in 1877. Later remodelings, including 1969 concrete panels over the lower floors, obscured the original look. A restoration begun after 2003 removed those panels, recreated lost details from historic photographs and returned the bank's brass clock to the corner. The building remains in office use.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Marshall Sanguinet and Carl Staats (Sanguinet & Staats), original 1910 structure; Wyatt C. Hedrick, 1926 addition","architectural_style":"Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Movements: Skyscraper (Beaux-Arts ornamentation)","criteria":["A","B","C"],"status_note":"Currently operates as an office building; recently restored to its original Beaux-Arts appearance after the early 2000s restoration effort.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:23.810193-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/6/9735/40973506/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/09000981.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000981/35df0af2f4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000981/35df0af2f4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FirstNationalBankBuilding1_(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:FirstNationalBankBuilding1_(1_of_1).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973506","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_National_Bank_Building_(Fort_Worth,_Texas)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q55611701"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/tarrant-county/first-national-bank-building-09000981/"}