{"nrhp_refnum":"79003012","name":"Waggoner, W. T. Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"810 Houston St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fort Worth","county":"Tarrant County","state":"TX","lat":32.75161515900004,"lon":-97.33064643599994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-07-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Industry","Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 20-story steel-frame office building at 810 Houston Street in downtown Fort Worth, Texas, completed in 1920 for oilman W. T. Waggoner. It was designed by Sanguinet and Staats and built by C. S. Lambie.","why_significant":"The building represents Fort Worth's role in the national oil boom, when the city's economy grew beyond cattle into oil refining and trade. At 210 feet it was the tallest building in the Southwest when built, and it was one of the first Chicago School-type skyscrapers in Fort Worth. It also reflects the work of the prominent architectural firm Sanguinet and Staats.","narrative":"Rising twenty stories and 210 feet above Houston Street in downtown Fort Worth, this office tower was built between March 1919 and 1920 for cattleman-turned-oil millionaire W. T. Waggoner. Sanguinet and Staats designed it, and C. S. Lambie of Denver handled the riveted steel frame. Originally planned at sixteen floors, it became the tallest building in the Southwest until taller towers followed in Dallas and Fort Worth. Its design shows moderate Chicago School influence, with a strong vertical emphasis, a green granite base, buff brick pilasters and cream terra cotta at the top. Modern features at the time included Otis elevators and a built-in vacuum cleaning system. Tenants have long been oil exploration and refining companies, railroads and a bank. The building matters because it embodies Fort Worth's rise as a center of the oil industry in the early twentieth century, and because it is an early local example of skyscraper design.","period_of_significance":"1920","architect_builder":"C. S. Lambie, Builder; Sanguinet and Staats, Architects","architectural_style":"Chicago School influence (local interpretation of Chicago School skyscraper design)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied commercial office building; the owners plan to restore its original window frames and return it to an historically accurate 'Class A' office building. The 1960s aluminum window frames are the major exterior alteration.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:18.572942-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/58/9734/40973458/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/79003012.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003012/40ed4136be-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79003012/40ed4136be-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WaggonerBuilding1.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:WaggonerBuilding1.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973458","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._T._Waggoner_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19866241"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/tarrant-county/waggoner-w-t-building-79003012/"}