{"nrhp_refnum":"84001981","name":"Fort Worth Public Market","other_names":["Cadillac Plastics"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1400 Henderson St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fort Worth","county":"Tarrant County","state":"TX","lat":32.74431772200006,"lon":-97.33803975699999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1984-01-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Spanish Colonial Revival public market complex at 1400 Henderson Street on the southern edge of downtown Fort Worth, Texas, built in 1930. It has a main market building with a tower and an L-shaped produce stall shed.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the market is an unusual commercial example of Spanish Colonial Revival architecture in Fort Worth, with a vertical tower that hints at Art Moderne. It also matters to the city's commercial history as a major privately funded construction project undertaken during the Great Depression.","narrative":"Opened on June 20, 1930, this public market at 1400 Henderson Street combined a tan brick main building with an L-shaped shed of individual produce stalls. Architect B. Gaylord Noftsger designed it for developer John J. Harden in the Spanish Colonial Revival style, with glazed terra-cotta ornament, colored glass, red tile roofs and a tall northeast entrance tower topped by an open belvedere. Together the two buildings held 145 farmer or vendor stalls and 30 permanent shops. Despite a large opening-day crowd of over 20,000, poor management, weak security and the Depression drove tenants away, and the market venture failed in 1940. Later owners leased the property to other businesses. The interior has been largely removed, and the north end was shortened in the 1950s for freeway frontage road expansion, yet the main exterior details remain. It is valued as a rare commercial example of its style in Fort Worth and as a Depression-era private project.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":"B. Gaylord Noftsger, architect; Quisle and Andrews, contracting engineers","architectural_style":"Spanish Colonial Revival","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied; the main building was most recently used by a plastics company as a storefront and warehouse. The interior is heavily altered, but most exterior details survive.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:19.590045-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/52/9734/40973452/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/84001981.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84001981/d5dededd6c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/84001981/d5dededd6c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Mark Fisher","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:0011Public_Market_Full_NE_Fort_Worth_Texas.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Mark Fisher</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:0011Public_Market_Full_NE_Fort_Worth_Texas.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973452","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Worth_Public_Market","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5472401"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/tarrant-county/fort-worth-public-market-84001981/"}