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Architecture The
Flat Iron Building, Fort Worth Texas and NYC1907
Architects : Sanguinet and Staats
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Worth's Flat Iron Building
Photo courtesy Barclay
Gibson, May 2005 |
Carl Staats had
worked with J. Riley Gordon
in the 1890s.1891 to 1898 to be exact. Staats joined forces with Marshall R.
Sanguinet right around the turn of the century in Fort
Worth and they opened a branch office in Houston in 1903.
The building was commissioned by Dr. Bacon Saunders to be a professional
building. It was doubtlessly influenced by the 20 story, 1902 New
York City Flat Iron which Dr. Bacon had seen while visiting there. What else
are you going to do with a triangular piece of land? The cost of the building
was $70,000. Saunders was a Surgeon and a Dean of the Fort Worth Medical College.
He had a laboratory built on the top floor, with a pharmacy on the ground floor.
Beautifully detailed panther heads are incorporated into the design
above the second floor. The building had been vacant for over 20 years before
its recent restoration. It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places
and is also a Texas Historic Landmark.
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John Troesser | TE photo,
1999 | | Postcard courtesy
www.rootsweb.com/ %7Etxpstcrd/ |
| | | Fort
Worth's Flat Iron Building detail
Photo courtesy Barclay
Gibson, May 2005 | |
| | | Two
of the Flat Iron's decorative panthers
TE photo, May 2004 | |
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