Fort Worth, TX Photos

Downtown Fort Worth has a heritage core, some modern highrises & a notable Bass Performance Hall for concerts. It is noted for the Fort Worth Stockyards National Historic District which was a terminus on the Chisholm Trail where steers were driven north to be put on rail cars for transport to feed the Eastern USA. Today, a bit of the old frontier & rodeos are preserved here. The Amon Carter Museum holds a significant collection of early art of Western America. Fort Worth is the twin city of Dallas.

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Angels with trumpets on Bass Performance Hall. Fort Worth, TX	Alexander Calder Stabile at base of old Bank One Tower (1974) damaged by tornado in 2000. Fort Worth, TX	D.R. Horton Tower (1984) (301 Commerce Street) 38 floors. Fort Worth, TX Architect: Paul Rudolph.	Chase Texas Tower (1982) (201 Main Street) 33 floors. Fort Worth, TX Architect: Paul Rudolph.

Looking down 3rd Street. Fort Worth, TX	R. H.& R. building at Commerce & 4th. Fort Worth, TX	Haltom's Diamonds street clock & store. Fort Worth, TX	Knights of Pythias Castle Hall (1901). TX

Buildings on Sundance Square. Fort Worth, TX	Western Union & Conn buildings with eagle (c1906) (310 Main). Fort Worth, TX	Western Union Building (1930-1) (314 Main). Fort Worth, TX. Style: Art Deco. Architect: James B. Davies, Sr.	Buildings on Sundance Square. Fort Worth, TX

Sundance West Apartments (1991) (333 Throckmorton Street) 12 floors. Fort Worth, TX Architect: David M. Schwarz Architectural Services.	Sundance Theater. Fort Worth, TX Style: Art Deco.	Building with classical carvings. Fort Worth, TX	First Christian Church (1914) (612 Throckmorton). Fort Worth, TX. Architect: Van Slyke & Woodruff. On National Register.

Tarrant County Courthouse (1895) (100 East Weatherford Street). Fort Worth, TX Architect: Gunn & Curtiss.	Topiary cut like cowboy on horse. Fort Worth, TX	Neon sign for cowboy had store. Fort Worth, TX	Mural monument to Chisholm Trail cattle drives (1867-75) by Richard Haas on Jett building (c1902). Fort Worth, TX

Kimbell Art Museum (1967-72). Fort Worth, TX. Architect: Louis Kahn.	Fort Worth Stockyards National Historic District. Fort Worth, TX	Stockyards Hotel bar with saddles for stools. Fort Worth, TX	Statue of cowboy wrestling a steer in front of Cowtown Coliseum. Fort Worth, TX

Rodeo riders at Cowtown Coliseum. Fort Worth, TX	Sculpture group of cowboy driving steers in Stockyards National Historic District. Fort Worth, TX	Cowboy driving steers sculpture in Stockyards National Historic District. Fort Worth, TX	Western boot shop in Stockyards National Historic District. Fort Worth, TX

Lighted neon signs in Billy Bob's Texas Bar in Stockyards National Historic District. Fort Worth, TX	Trophy head in Billy Bob's Texas Bar in Stockyards National Historic District. Fort Worth, TX	Long horned steer at Stockyards National Historic District. Fort Worth, TX	Cowboy riding long horned steer at Stockyards National Historic District. Fort Worth, TX

Live Stock Exchange at Stockyards National Historic District. Fort Worth, TX	Converted pens once used to hold steers at Stockyards Rail Station now holds shops. Fort Worth, TX	Water tower & steer pen structure at Stockyards Rail Station. Fort Worth, TX	Sculptures on lawn of Amon Carter Museum with Will Rogers Pioneer Tower. Fort Worth, TX

Amon Carter Museum (1964). Fort Worth, TX. Architect: Philip Johnson.	A Dash for Timber (1889) painted by Frederic Remington at Amon Carter Museum. Fort Worth, TX	Cavalryman's Breakfast on the Plains (1890) painted by Frederic Remington at Amon Carter Museum. Fort Worth, TX	Lost in a Snowstorm We are Friends (1888) painted by Charles M. Russell at Amon Carter Museum. Fort Worth, TX

The Silk Robe (1892) painted by Charles M. Russell at Amon Carter Museum. Fort Worth, TX	Indians Crossing the Upper Missouri (1859-60) painted by Carl Wimar at Amon Carter Museum. Fort Worth, TX