Part one of a random assortment of pics from my home of downtown Fort Worth.

The Electric Building (1929) and the Neil P. Anderson Building (1921), now apartments and condos, respectively.

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The First Christian Church from 1914.

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Looking up over the top of the W. T. Grant Building from 1939.

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The Blackstone Hotel (1929, now a Courtyard by Marriott) on Main, with the Shamrock Building from 1900 and the Virtuoso Building from 1996 next to it to the left. The tower on the left is one of the Paul Rudolph-designed City Center towers from 1984.

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Details of the Blackstone.

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714 Main (1920) and Carter + Burgess Plaza (1982).

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Looking down the sidewalk in front of the Blackstone.

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Street scene at the base of the Burk Burnett Building (1914).

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The Sinclair Building (1930), one of Fort Worth's Art Deco treasures, with The Tower (1974, redesigned 2005) and the STS Building (1925) to the left and the Shamrock Building (1900) to the right.

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Details of the Sinclair Building. Even Subway gets into the Art Deco act.

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The old Plaza Hotel (1908), now office space with ground-level retail (Mercury Chop House and La Madeleine).

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Looking up through the Plaza Hotel's light well from La Madeleine.

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The Sanger Building (1929), once the first air-conditioned department store west of the Mississippi, now the Sanger Lofts with 59 lofts and ground-level retail. This is my place.

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The Sanguinet Building (2002), office space with ground-level retail.

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Some more beautifully restored historic buildings, including the old City National Bank Building on the right (built 1884).

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Street scene on Main.

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More historic buildings, with the Sundance Theater (1991) in between.

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More Main Street scenes. The red brick building there is the Jett Building (1902).

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3rd Street. Red brick tower on left is 2002's Sanguinet Building.

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The Palace Theater and Barnes & Noble, from 1996.

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The Nancy Lee & Perry R. Bass Performance Hall. Built entirely with private funds, Bass Performance Hall is the permanent home of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, Texas Ballet Theater, Fort Worth Opera, and the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and Cliburn Concerts. It also hosts special productions of Casa Mañana Musicals, and presents Performing Arts Fort Worth's "Hall Series", a popular array of eclectic entertainment. It was built in 1998.

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Street scene in front of the Embassy Suites as the Sinclair Building looks on.

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Shopping along Houston Street.

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At the end of Main sits the Tarrant County Courthouse, one of Fort Worth's architectural masterpieces. It was built in 1895.

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The Sinclair Building shares this scene with the Kress Building, built in 1936 and now loft apartments with ground-floor retail.

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Another Main Street scene.

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The W. T. Waggoner Building from 1919, now restored and home to XTO Energy.

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Some of the historic smaller structures in south downtown. All are in use.

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The Houston Street Lofts (1905), Hotel Texas (now Fort Worth Hilton, 1921), and the Flatiron Building (1907).

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St. Patrick's Cathedral, built in 1888 and still in amazing condition, and still used by the church.

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Wow some great old buildings, like the art deco buildings. Dallas and Houston have demolished a lot of their historic buildings glad to see Fort Worth hasn't! nearly as historic as San Antonio!

Part Two.

One of the Paul Rudolph-designed City Center towers from 1984 alongside its neighbor, the old Plaza Hotel Building from 1908.

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The Aerated Water Pool at the Phillip Johnson-designed Fort Worth Water Gardens, in front of the Fort Worth Convention Center.

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Active Pool - Fort Worth Water Gardens. The recently restored and reopened Water Gardens are one of my favorite places to relax in downtown.

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Quiet Pool - Fort Worth Water Gardens.

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Aerated Water Pool.

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Corner of 3rd & Throckmorton. The three historic buildings in this shot, left to right, are the old City National Bank Building (1884), the Western Union Building (1930), and the Knights of Pythias Castle Hall (1901).

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The Sanguinet Building (2002) and The Tower (1974, redesigned/redeveloped 2005).

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2nd Street. The large structure at the end of the street (the old Tandy Center mall) will soon be demolished, and 2nd Street reopened to break up the Tandy Center superblock as it redeveloped into the mixed-use City Place.

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The Flatiron Building, the Federal Building, and the Houston Place Lofts.

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The Texas & Pacific Terminal/Texas & Pacific Lofts through the trees of the Water Gardens.

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The Convention Center.

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The Fort Worth Hilton (1921) in front of Carter + Burgess Plaza. The Hilton was originally the Hotel Texas, the place where John F. Kennedy stayed the night before his fateful trip to Dallas.

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Nice nice nice nice... too beautiful the downtown of Fort Worth Texas, I hope to be there on next december... I have so much wishes to know this city and all Metroplex. But Fort Worth in this pics really have me liked.

Excellent pics!! congratulations

Part Three.

Burnett Plaza & Man With Briefcase.

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Panther City Fountain, Hyde Park, next to Flatiron Building.

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Views of Burnett Park. Burnett Plaza looms in the background.

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Burnett Park, 500 West 7th, the Electric Building, and the Neil P. 500 West 7th is, of all things, a "sequel" to Lever House in New York City. It was designed in 1961 by the same architects, SOM, and uses the same basic shape as Lever House, but in contrast expresses its concrete structure and features a set-back glass curtain wall. Most people don't know that SOM did a follow-up to one of their most famous buildings in Fort Worth.

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500 West 7th, The Tower, the Electric Building.
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The Flatiron, from 1907. Not as tall as the New York original, but still absolutely beautiful. Fully restored, and now home to posh apartments.

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The Texas & Pacific Lofts rise behind the Mountain in the Water Gardens. The T&P is a gorgeous Art Deco train station from the early '30s that has been brought back to life. Its upper floors are now loft condos, and the beautifully restored lobby serves as a station for the Trinity Railway Express commuter train.

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thanks for the pics! i love fort worth! downtown is the place to go on the weekends!

Beautiful City! Whats the population??

fort worth has a population of 653,320. it's neighboring Dallas so people just say Dallas-Fort Worth or DFW. it's catching up to dallas tho! right now it's half the size but it's jumped from 534,000 to 653,320 people in the past 5 years

Yeah, the city where I live!!!

Great tour, looks wonderful, downtown is so nice. Thanks for the tour.

I live just north of Ft. Worth in Keller, TX. It's a great city and is growing VERY fast.

Part Four - Friday night in downtown.

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The Flatiron may be even prettier at night:
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Looking up at the Hotel Texas (now the Fort Worth Hilton) with Carter + Burgess Plaza in the background:
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Main Street:
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Work is underway restoring and redeveloping the Transport Life Building:
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6th & Main - Ashton Hotel/Cafe Ashton, Fox & Hound Pub in the Kress Building, Sinclair Building:
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Looking across the Reata's rooftop dining & dome to the Sundance West apartments:
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Crowds enjoying drinks & live music at the Flying Saucer's deck:
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Lots of people passed by - you can see images of them near the clock, blurred by the slow shutter speed:
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Loved the color blurs:
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More ghost people in the crosswalk, and a conversation going on there on the 2nd floor of Barnes & Noble. Big crowds at the Palace, as usual:
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Big crowd assembled for live music at 8.0's courtyard:
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The Flying Saucer in the Land Title Block, built in 1889.
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Paul Rudolph's City Center Towers rise behind the Jett Building and its mural:
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Crowds at the Sundance, as well:
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Excelent pics on a Friday night in FTW, the Flatiron building looks awesome.

Dallas could use some pointers from Fort Worth. It just shows that sheer city size means nothing.

Downtown looks very nice from the street level, but when you look at a picture or view it from a distance, the skyline is unimpressive. I just wish it could look as good in the sky as it does on the ground.

Looks great the last time I was in FW was probly a few years back it's a great city! very nice shot

Beautiful architecture in Ft. Worth.

At first I thought that you had gotten some of the dates wrong on the buildings the Sanguinet Building/Bank One building is amazing as is The Nancy Lee & Perry R. Bass Performance Hall, a lot of detail that you dont get anymore. The Sundance Theater and the Barnes & Noble are great Art Deco buildings, I dont even want to use the word replica as they have everything that Art deco has. I'm glad to see the thought that was put into all these buildings when designing them, it has paid off so well.