Next door to the Eddleman-McFarland House, at 1320 Penn Street, the Pollock–Capps House rises on its bluff in front of you. This Queen Anne Victorian sits atop a bluff overlooking the Trinity River, its red brick and limestone walls capped by a slate roof. You can imagine the hand of Howard Messer, the architect of the neighboring Eddleman-McFarland House, who may have designed this home as well. The house was named for Joseph Robert Pollock, a physician who moved to Fort Worth in 1887; Pollock and his wife Phoebe sold it to William and Sallie Capps in 1910.
William Capps established himself as a distinguished lawyer. Sallie Capps carried a civic mantle as president of the Fort Worth Kindergarten Association and served as a Regent at the College of Industrial Arts in Denton. Later caretakers include Historic Fort Worth Inc., which purchased the house in 1971 and, three years later, sold it to architect Robert W. Chambers.
Notice the octagonal tower rising on the northeast corner, a hallmark of the house’s Queen Anne character. Below that octagonal tower the bluff falls away to the Trinity River, a view that has watched Fort Worth change.