{"nrhp_refnum":"91002022","name":"Masonic Widows and Orphans Home Historic District","other_names":["Masonic Home and School of Texas"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by E. Berry St., Mitchell Blvd., Vaughn St., Wichita St. and Glen Garden Dr.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fort Worth","county":"Tarrant County","state":"TX","lat":35.18561655350007,"lon":-101.85237513694999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-01-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 206-acre campus in southeast Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, built for the Masonic Widows and Orphans Home (later the Masonic Home and School of Texas). It has 13 contributing and 13 noncontributing resources, with the historic buildings dating from 1910 to 1941.","why_significant":"The district is a largely intact example of a charitable home of the Progressive Era, built and run by a fraternal organization to care for the orphans and widows of its members. It is also significant for its collection of Late Gothic Revival institutional buildings from two phases of development, 1899-1920 and 1920-1941. These buildings were largely planned by architect Wiley G. Clarkson.","narrative":"Set in southeast Fort Worth, this 206-acre campus served as the Masonic Widows and Orphans Home, later known as the Masonic Home and School of Texas. The historic buildings stand on the eastern half of the property, arranged around a large quadrangle with a great lawn. Most are red brick with limestone trim in the Late Gothic Revival style, and each displays the Masonic emblem prominently. The 1920s campus plan was laid out by Wiley G. Clarkson, who designed the Administration Building, dining hall, superintendent's house and senior boys dormitory. Herbert M. Greene designed the girls' dormitories. Two earlier buildings, a laundry from 1910 and a dairy and industrial arts building from 1915, survive from the first phase of development. The district represents the way fraternal organizations cared for the widows and orphans of their members, a type of facility that spread during the Progressive Era. It also holds a largely unaltered group of institutional buildings from 1910 to 1941. Later buildings from after 1941 are modern in design and are not counted among the historic resources.","period_of_significance":"1910-1941","architect_builder":"Wiley G. Clarkson; Herbert M. Greene; James T. Taylor (builder of the Administration Building)","architectural_style":"Late Gothic Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The campus is still in use as a home and school. The power plant from the early campus was demolished in 1989, and several buildings had their windows replaced in the 1970s and 1980s.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:21.414365-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/62/9735/40973562/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/91002022.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"92000581","name":"Wolflin Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/texas/wolflin-historic-district-92000581/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973562","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109999757"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/tarrant-county/masonic-widows-and-orphans-home-historic-district-91002022/"}