{"nrhp_refnum":"84001965","name":"Bryce, William J., House","other_names":["Fairview"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"4900 Bryce Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fort Worth","county":"Tarrant County","state":"TX","lat":32.739897205000034,"lon":-97.39329541099994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-03-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story masonry residence named Fairview at 4900 Bryce Avenue in the Arlington Heights section of Fort Worth, Texas, built in 1893 for contractor William J. Bryce and designed by architect Marshall Sanguinet.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as an excellent example of a late 19th-century house by Fort Worth architect Marshall Sanguinet, inspired by French Renaissance sources. It reflects the quality of life in Arlington Heights around 1900. Its builder, William J. Bryce, was a successful contractor who later served as mayor of Fort Worth.","narrative":"Fairview is a two-story masonry house at 4900 Bryce Avenue in Fort Worth's Arlington Heights neighborhood, completed in 1893. Marshall Sanguinet's firm designed it in a simple French Renaissance manner, with a steeply pitched slate hipped roof, distinctive dormers, broad round arches, recessed porches and a semicircular entry piazza. Inside, the living and dining rooms have coved plaster ceilings with relief swags, and the dining room has an ornate wooden mantel. William J. Bryce, a Scottish-born brickmason, built the house and lived there until his death in 1944. He founded the Bryce Building Company, worked with Sanguinet on projects such as the Knights of Pythias Hall, and served as Fort Worth's mayor from 1927 to 1933. Some porches were enclosed and a sun porch added, mostly in the 1940s, but the original character and major interior features remain intact. The original carriage house, converted to an apartment in the 1940s, also survives on the lot.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Marshall Sanguinet, architect; William J. Bryce, builder","architectural_style":"French Renaissance","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied as a private residence and described as maintained in excellent condition; some alterations were made, largely in the 1940s.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:19.664807-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/5/9734/40973405/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/84001965.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84001965/25ce96304e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84001965/25ce96304e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BryceHouse1_(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:BryceHouse1_(1_of_1).jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973405","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Bryce_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14711409"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/tarrant-county/bryce-william-j-house-84001965/"}