Fort Worth Audio Walking Tour

Highlights

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  Fort Worth Water Gardens

  Your first view takes in three distinct pools across the Fort Worth Water Gardens, an urban park on the south end of downtown Fort Worth. This 4.3-acre (1.7-hectare) site sits between Houston and Commerce Streets next to the Fort Worth Convention Center.

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  Hotel Texas

  Today's Hilton Fort Worth began life as the Hotel Texas, a historic hotel in downtown Fort Worth. Constructed from 1920 to 1921 as the Hotel Texas, it was designed by Sanguinet & Staats and Mauran, Russell, & Crowell, with Westlake Construction Co. as the contractor.

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  Bass Performance Hall

  Picture pianist Van Cliburn's suggestion leading to the Bass Performance Hall, a performing arts venue here in Fort Worth, Texas. It began with a suggestion from pianist Van Cliburn to philanthropist Nancy Lee Bass and her husband, Perry Richardson Bass, and was designed by David M. Schwarz of Architectural Services, Inc. Built in 1998 of limestone, the hall feels like a carved treasure: an 80-foot-diameter dome painted by Scott and Stuart Gentling crowns the Founders Concert Theater, while the façade is watched over by two 48-foot-tall angels sculpted by Marton Varo from Texas limestone.

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  St. Patrick Cathedral in Fort Worth

  St. Patrick Cathedral, the cathedral of the Catholic Church in Fort Worth, Texas, greets you with its stone façade. This parish of the Diocese of Fort Worth is the seat of its bishop.

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  Sundance Square

  Sundance Square spreads across 35 blocks of downtown Fort Worth, Texas, a commercial, residential, entertainment and retail district where you now walk. Named after the Sundance Kid in western folklore, it has become a lively hub, popular for nightlife and entertainment in Fort Worth and for tourists visiting the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex.

All 18 stops

• Flatiron Building (Downtown Fort Worth)

  At the corner of Houston and West 9th streets in downtown Fort Worth, the Flatiron Building comes to a point in front of you.

• Fort Worth Water Gardens (Downtown Fort Worth)

  Your first view takes in three distinct pools across the Fort Worth Water Gardens, an urban park on the south end of downtown Fort Worth.

• Bass Performance Hall (Fort Worth)

  Picture pianist Van Cliburn's suggestion leading to the Bass Performance Hall, a performing arts venue here in Fort Worth, Texas.

• Sid Richardson Museum (Sundance Square)

  Historic Sundance Square in Fort Worth holds the Sid Richardson Museum, which you now face.

• Sundance Square (downtown Fort Worth)

  Sundance Square spreads across 35 blocks of downtown Fort Worth, Texas, a commercial, residential, entertainment and retail district where you now walk.

• F. W. Woolworth Building (Sundance Square)

  Shoppers once streamed through the F.W. Woolworth Building entrance you face, here in the Sundance Square section of downtown Fort Worth, Texas.

• Kress Building (Downtown Fort Worth)

  Five stories of Classical Moderne Art Deco rise in front of you: the Kress Building, also known as the S.H. Kress and Co. Building, in…

• Sinclair Building (downtown Fort Worth)

  Sixteen stories of Zigzag Moderne rise above you here at the Sinclair Building, originally the Dulaney Building, anchoring the west corner of Fifth and Main…

• Electric Building (Downtown Fort Worth)

  Picture December 1927, when architect Wyatt C. Hedrick began planning the Electric Building, an 18-story Art Deco and Spanish Renaissance styled building in downtown Fort…

• Blackstone Hotel (Downtown Fort Worth)

  Rising 268 ft (82 m) above the corner of Fifth and Main Streets, the Blackstone Hotel towers as the tallest hotel in downtown Fort Worth…

• St. Patrick Cathedral in Fort Worth (Fort Worth)

  St. Patrick Cathedral, the cathedral of the Catholic Church in Fort Worth, Texas, greets you with its stone façade.

• Hotel Texas (Downtown Fort Worth)

  Today's Hilton Fort Worth began life as the Hotel Texas, a historic hotel in downtown Fort Worth.

• First National Bank Building (Fort Worth)

  Eleven stories of the First National Bank Building rise at 711 Houston St. in Fort Worth.

• Paddock Viaduct (Downtown Fort Worth)

  Ferries and low-water crossings once did the work of the Paddock Viaduct, also known as the Main Street Viaduct, the reinforced concrete bridge spanning the…

• Pollock-Capps House (Fort Worth)

  Next door to the Eddleman-McFarland House, at 1320 Penn Street, the Pollock-Capps House rises on its bluff in front of you.

• Eddleman-McFarland House (Quality Hill)

  Built in 1899 on a bluff above the Trinity River, the Eddleman-McFarland House anchors the Quality Hill section of Fort Worth, right in front of…

• Wharton-Scott House (Quality Hill)

  Thistle Hill is the other name for Wharton-Scott House, the historic mansion at 1509 Pennsylvania Avenue in Quality Hill, Fort Worth, which you now face.

• Phyllis J. Tilley Memorial Bridge (Trinity Park)

  Your walk across the Trinity River follows the Phyllis J. Tilley Memorial Bridge, a pedestrian bridge in Fort Worth, Texas named for Phyllis Tilley, an…

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