2232 WTW

 

Build date: 1928

Builder: Unknown

Architect: Joe R Pelich

Architectural Style: Tudor

Historical Deed Card:

Previous Owners:

  1. R. A. Westbrook

  2. Gladys Westbrook

  3. H S Stevenson

  4. N C Miller

  5. W P Clark

  6. Mary Clark

Interesting facts:

The Roy A. and Gladys Westbrook House is a 2½ story Tudor Revival style home constructed in 1928. The house sits on a 1.5 acre blufftop site in the Park Hill neighborhood that overlooks the Fort Worth Zoo and Forest Park. The Park Hill neighborhood was designed by the noted Kansas City, Missouri, landscape architecture firm of Hare and Hare. The home was designed by prominent Fort Worth architect Joseph L. Pelich, whose residential designs were mostly based on period revival styles. His work can be found throughout Fort Worth's oldest neighborhoods. Pelich also designed the original Casa Manana outdoor theater in Fort Worth.

The home has multiple gables and a steeply pitched, slate covered cross-gabled roof. Side gables are decorated with hand-hewn and pegged half-timbering. Other notable features include an arcaded recessed portico, brick battlements, tall brick chimneys with chimney pots, and multiple-light double-hung and diamond-pattern casement windows. The home's interior includes stained and leaded glass windows, ornate wrought iron work, three marble and plaster fireplaces, a tile fountain and plaster coffered ceilings.

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See the wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_A._and_Gladys_Westbrook_House