{"nrhp_refnum":"11000514","name":"Butler Place Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by Luella St., I.M. Terrell Way Cir. M., 19th St. & I 35W,","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fort Worth","county":"Tarrant County","state":"TX","lat":32.751089920000055,"lon":-97.31801689058668,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2011-08-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History","Politics/Government","Black"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 20-acre district of twenty-two brick buildings and three brick structures just east of downtown Fort Worth, Texas, built in 1939-40 as a federally funded public housing project for African-American families.","why_significant":"The district is presented as a representative 1930s federal public housing development built with U.S. Housing Authority funding through the Fort Worth Housing Authority. Its stripped Colonial Revival design with Moderne touches reflects the economy and utility of the era. A group of prominent Texas architects and landscape architects worked on it, and it retains a high degree of integrity.","narrative":"Butler Place is a public housing complex on twenty acres east of downtown Fort Worth, framed by three major highways. Built in 1939-40 with federal funding through the U.S. Housing Authority, it replaced a blighted area of substandard private dwellings and was designed to house 250 African-American families, along with a library and administrative space. The district holds twenty-two brick buildings and three small utility structures. Most residential buildings are six-, eight- or ten-unit designs in a stripped Colonial Revival style, with Moderne touches such as cast-concrete porch supports and contrasting dark brick bands. The buildings are arranged in U-shaped groupings with live oak trees and green courtyards. Wiley G. Clarkson led a group of well-known Texas architects, and nationally recognized Hare and Hare contributed landscape plans. Alterations are mostly interior, and the layout is largely intact apart from buildings lost to Interstate 35W. The complex still provides affordable housing.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Wiley G. Clarkson, chief architect, with associate architects Wyatt C. Hedrick, Hubert Crane, Joseph Pelich, Preston Geren and Elmer G. Withers Architectural Company; C.O. Chromaster, supervising architect; J. E. Morgan & Sons, contractor; Morrison and Carter and Hare and Hare, landscape architects","architectural_style":"Late 19th and Early 20th-Century Revivals: Colonial Revival; Modern Movement: Moderne","criteria":[],"status_note":"Continues to function as affordable housing; the former administration building houses a library. Two buildings were demolished for Interstate 35W.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:23.533058-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/86/9734/40973486/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/11000514.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000514/40560a0d2c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/11000514/40560a0d2c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Butler_Place_Historic_District_in_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:Butler_Place_Historic_District_in_Fort_Worth.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973486","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butler_Place_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16849818"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/tarrant-county/butler-place-historic-district-11000514/"}