{"nrhp_refnum":"09000982","name":"Petroleum Building","other_names":["Life of America Building","Schick Building","Finevest Building","Executive Plaza Building"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"210 W. 6th. St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fort Worth","county":"Tarrant County","state":"TX","lat":32.754637126000034,"lon":-97.33204165199999,"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":"A 14-story brick-over-steel office skyscraper at 210 West Sixth Street, at the corner of Throckmorton and Sixth streets in downtown Fort Worth, Texas, built in 1927 and designed by Wyatt C. Hedrick.","why_significant":"It is nominated for local significance in Commerce and Architecture. It housed oil-related businesses during Fort Worth's early twentieth-century oil-driven commercial expansion. It is also an early example of Hedrick's Commercial Gothic skyscraper style, with stone owl carvings and vertical pilaster strips.","narrative":"Rising 14 stories at the northeast corner of Throckmorton and Sixth streets in downtown Fort Worth, this 1927 office tower was designed by architect Wyatt C. Hedrick and financed by the Dulaney-Johnston Investment Company to house oil-industry tenants. Its brick walls over a steel frame carry Gothic-inspired stone ornamentation on the two street-facing sides, including narrow pilaster strips, shield-and-banner panels and carved owls at the pier bases. The north and east sides are plain brick. Over the decades the building was home to oil companies such as Gulf Oil, along with lawyers, retailers and a lobby cigar stand, and it was renamed several times. A 1969 modernization removed the crockets, replaced the windows and swapped the stone base for concrete panels. Restoration begun in 2006 reversed much of that work with granite veneer, replica gratings and wood double-hung windows. It is recognized for its role in Fort Worth's oil-era commerce and as an early example of Hedrick's Commercial Gothic style.","period_of_significance":"1927-1959","architect_builder":"Wyatt C. Hedrick","architectural_style":"Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Movements: Skyscraper (Commercial Gothic)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Currently operates as an office building; restored from 2006 to return it to its original appearance after 1969 modernization.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:23.684866-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/8/9735/40973508/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/09000982.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000982/7d5e9b283c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000982/7d5e9b283c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Petroleum_Building_(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:Petroleum_Building_(1_of_1).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973508","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110002692"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/tarrant-county/petroleum-building-09000982/"}