{"nrhp_refnum":"84001963","name":"Bryce Building","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"909 Throckmorton St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fort Worth","county":"Tarrant County","state":"TX","lat":32.75116146900007,"lon":-97.33044143799998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-02-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A five-sided, two-story masonry office building at 909 Throckmorton Street in downtown Fort Worth, Texas, completed in 1910 by builder William J. Bryce and designed in a simplified Renaissance Revival manner.","why_significant":"The building is closely tied to the career of William J. Bryce, a prominent Fort Worth contractor, business leader and mayor from 1927 to 1933. He ran his business from the ground floor and leased the upper floor to local organizations. It is also an unusual, little-altered example of Renaissance Revival design shaped to an irregular lot.","narrative":"Located at 909 Throckmorton Street in downtown Fort Worth, this two-story masonry office building was completed in 1910 and takes an unusual five-sided shape from the small lot it occupies. Its simplified Renaissance Revival design includes brick piers, cast-stone capitals and cornice, a wrought-iron balcony and a carved frieze bearing the name Bryce Building. A metal exterior staircase serves the second floor. The building was built by William J. Bryce, a Scottish-born contractor who settled in Fort Worth in 1883. His firm constructed major local buildings, including the Armour Packing Plant and the Texas Brewery, and he later served on the commission that drafted the city charter, on the first city council under it, and as mayor from 1927 to 1933. He kept his offices on the ground floor and leased the upper floor to groups such as the Order of Aztecs and the Tarrant County Democratic Party. A fire in late 1982 damaged the interior, and restoration was beginning when the property was nominated.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":"William J. Bryce, Builder","architectural_style":"Renaissance Revival (simplified)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Interior damaged by fire in late 1982; the last tenant, a restaurant, vacated and restoration had begun at the time of nomination.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:19.116441-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/50/9734/40973450/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/84001963.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84001963/65ba22752b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84001963/65ba22752b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brycebuilding3.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:Brycebuilding3.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973450","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryce_Building","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4980662"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/tarrant-county/bryce-building-84001963/"}