Oakhurst Historic District

Oakhurst is a residential neighborhood of roughly 28 blocks on a wooded hill above the Trinity River, about two and a half miles northeast of the Tarrant County Courthouse in Fort Worth. The Oakhurst Land Company began selling lots in 1924, promoting country living only minutes from Main Street, and restricted both additions to residential use. Later sections, called West Oakhurst, were laid out by the Kansas City landscape architects Hare and Hare, with curving streets and large irregular lots that follow the rolling terrain. The housing runs from 1920s and 1930s Tudor Revival and Bungalow houses to postwar Ranch and Colonial Revival homes. Tudor Revival is the most common style at 22 percent, followed by Ranch at 18 percent. Stone retaining walls, small parks, entrance columns and mature oaks, elms and pecans add to the character. The district is significant for its role in the city's suburban growth and for its architecture and landscape design between 1924 and 1959.