{"nrhp_refnum":"83003812","name":"First Christian Church","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"612 Throckorton St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fort Worth","county":"Tarrant County","state":"TX","lat":32.75253958300004,"lon":-97.33233691599997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1983-10-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Religion"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story, steel-framed church with limestone walls and a copper dome at 612 Throckmorton Street in downtown Fort Worth, Texas, built in 1914-1915, with a connected seven-story annex added in 1928-1929.","why_significant":"The church is described as the finest surviving work of local architects Van Slyke and Woodruff, who also designed the annex. It was built for what the form calls the third-largest congregation of the Disciples of Christ in the world. Its many community activities led to the annex, which has a swimming pool and meeting hall.","narrative":"Occupying half a city block in downtown Fort Worth, this church is a temple-like building in a classical Beaux Arts manner, topped by a copper dome on a high drum. Two hexastyle Corinthian porticoes dominate the exterior, which is clad in limestone from Lueders, Texas. Inside, a stained-glass dome about 22 feet across, amber like the church's windows, covers the sanctuary, and a movable wall opens an adjoining space with 250 more seats. Fort Worth architects Van Slyke and Woodruff designed the church, built in 1914-1915, and a seven-story annex added in 1928-1929 with classrooms, a gymnasium and a swimming pool. The congregation was founded in 1855, and this is its fourth building. Funding came with support from banker K.M. Van Zandt and cattleman Samuel Burk Burnett. Its significance rests on its architecture, as the firm's finest surviving work, and on its role as a large Disciples of Christ congregation. Alterations have been minimal.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":"Van Slyke and Woodruff","architectural_style":"Beaux Arts classical (church); Renaissance Revival (annex)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and in religious and educational use; described as carefully maintained and minimally altered.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:19.343263-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/80/9734/40973480/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/83003812.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83003812/c2d9383008-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/83003812/c2d9383008-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:First_Christian_Church2.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:First_Christian_Church2.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973480","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Christian_Church_(Fort_Worth,_Texas)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5452631"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/tarrant-county/first-christian-church-83003812/"}