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The Hilton Fort Worth is a historic hotel in downtown Fort Worth, Texas. 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. A two-story addition was constructed to the North in 1963, featuring a bank on the ground floor and a new 25,000 sq ft ballroom on the second level. On November 21, 1963, United States President John F. Kennedy and Mrs. Kennedy stayed at the hotel in Room 850. The next morning, Kennedy gave what would be his last address in the Crystal Ballroom, just hours before he was assassinated in Dallas. The hotel became the Sheraton-Fort Worth Hotel in 1968. A major renovation, completed in 1970, coincided with the opening of the Fort Worth Convention Center, making the hotel a "headquarters hotel" for the center. In the main building, the work involved splitting the original two-story lobby into two floors, with additional meeting rooms on the upper level, and the renovation of the guest rooms, reducing their number to 289. It also included the addition of a new 49 m (161 ft) 230-room, 8-floor hotel annex atop a 5-story parking garage built in 1928, across Commerce Street from the hotel and linked to the main building by a skybridge.The Sheraton closed in 1979. The hotel was gutted and renovated at a cost of $33 million by architects Jarvis, Putty, Jarvis. The lobby was returned to its original two-story configuration, the interior was entirely redone, an atrium was created between the rear wings of the "U" shaped tower, and new lighting was installed on the upper levels to resemble the original lighting of the hotel. The hotel reopened in January 1981 as the Hyatt Regency Fort Worth. The hotel was renamed the Radisson Fort Worth in 1995. Under Radisson, the lights on the upper floors were turned off. From 2005 to 2006, the hotel's interiors were renovated, and it was renamed the Hilton Fort Worth on April 1, 2006. The 1970 annex tower was not renovated. Instead, it was sold off and left vacant. The Hilton Fort Worth currently contains 294 guest rooms. Part of the new work for the conversion included relighting the top of the building. The Hotel Texas was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 3, 1979. A boundary increase was approved in November 2014 to include the annex as part of the listing.In 2015, plans were announced to convert the 1970 annex, empty since 2006, to an apartment building with 140 units. Hilton Fort Worth was also inducted into Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, in 2016. In 2020, plans were announced to reopen the annex as a hotel, operated by the Le Méridien brand of Marriott International.Jim Thompson, the American author and screenwriter, known for his hardboiled crime fiction (The Getaway, The Grifters, After Dark, My Sweet), worked as a bellboy at the Hotel Texas for two years during Prohibition while attending high school during the day.

Hell's Half Acre was a precinct of Fort Worth, Texas designated as a red-light district beginning in the early to mid 1870s in the Old Wild West. It came to be called the town's "Bloody Third ward" because of the violence and lawlessness in the area.

The Santa Fe Freight Building is a former freight depot in Fort Worth, Texas. Designed in the style of Art Deco known as PWA Moderne, it was built on the site of an older freight depot in 1938. Upon construction, it was jointly owned by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway and the Southern Pacific Company. Its first floor was a freight warehouse that also provided cold-storage capabilities while its second floor housed office space for the Santa Fe. In the 1990s, the building had fallen into vacancy and was named one of 15 historic "highly significant endangered properties" in Fort Worth by its Historic and Cultural Landmarks Commission. The building was restored by local developers in 2002 and reopened as the Fort Worth Rail Market, an open market space that was ultimately transformed into restaurant and office space before the project was abandoned by 2005. In 2006, the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) signed a lease to use the Santa Fe Freight Building as its Fort Worth satellite campus, spending approximately $1.2 million to redesign and renovate the building. It continues to serve as UTA Fort Worth, which has awarded over 3,500 total degrees and has expanded to include ten different degree programs since its establishment in 2007.

777 Main Street is a skyscraper located in Fort Worth, Texas. At 525 feet (160 meters), it is the third tallest building in Fort Worth. It has 40 stories, and was completed in 1983. Its address is 777 Main Street, and it takes up the block bounded by Commerce Street, East 7th Street, Main Street, and Northeast 6th Street. The building stands at the site where the demolished Aviation Building existed between 1930 and 1978. Typical floorplates for this building are 23,000 square feet (2,100 m2). The building was significantly damaged by an F3 tornado on March 28, 2000, about 1,300 of the 5,000 buildings windows were blown out and repairs were done in 2001. The building has been known under a series of names in the past as its main tenants have changed. Before 1998 it was known as the Continental Plaza; from 1998 to 2000 as the UPR Plaza; and from 2000 to 2012 as the Carter Burgess Plaza.

For the similarly named building in Miami, see Aviation Building The Aviation Building was a Zigzag Moderne skyscraper located at the heart of downtown Fort Worth from 1930 to 1978. Designed by Herman P. Koeppe of the Wyatt C. Hedrick Architectural Firm, the 16 floor, 275 foot tower served the growing aviation concerns of Fort Worth before providing office space for several insurance groups. In 1978 the Aviation Building was demolished to make way for the construction of the Transwestern Building (now Carter Burgess Plaza).

The Blackstone Hotel is the tallest hotel in downtown Fort Worth, Texas, at 268 ft (82 m) tall. Located on the corner of Fifth and Main Streets, it is noted for its Art Deco design with terracotta ornamentation and setbacks on the top floors. The hotel was constructed in 1929 and operated for over 50 years before it sat vacant for nearly 20 years. The Blackstone Hotel guest list is full of notable people including Presidents of the United States: Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Richard M. Nixon. The hotel was also host for a few movie stars such as Bob Hope, Clark Gable, and Elvis Presley. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places (Building #84001961) on February 2, 1984. The building was restored in the late 1990s and is still in use today as the Courtyard Fort Worth Downtown/Blackstone, although it is still known as the "Blackstone Hotel" to those who live in or have ties to Fort Worth.

The Farmers and Mechanics National Bank is located at 714 Main Street in Fort Worth, Texas, at the corner of Main and Seventh streets. The building is the future home to the Kimpton Harper Hotel, which is scheduled to open in spring 2021. Designed in the Chicago Style the building was constructed in 1921. It was designed by the prominent architectural firm Sanguinet and Staats. The building was constructed during a time when Fort Worth was experiencing tremendous growth as a result of the oil and cattle industry. It remained the tallest building in Fort Worth until 1957. The building was vacant from 1997 until 2007 when XTO purchased the building and started renovations. It has also been known as Fort Worth National Bank; Continental Life; Transport Life; A. Davis Men's, and 714 Main.It is a three-part vertical block building.

The Flatiron Building is located in downtown Fort Worth, Texas, at the corner of Houston and West 9th streets. At the time of its completion in 1907 it was one of the city's first steel frame buildings and the tallest building in north Texas.

Anime Frontier is an annual three-day anime convention held during December at the Fort Worth Convention Center in Fort Worth, Texas.

The Fort Worth Convention Center (formerly known as the Tarrant County Convention Center) is a convention center and indoor arena located in Sundance Square in Fort Worth, Texas. The complex opened on September 30, 1968, and was expanded in 1983, 2002 and 2003.

The W. T. Waggoner Building is a historical skyscraper in Fort Worth, Texas.

Texas A&M University School of Law is the law school of Texas A&M University located in downtown Fort Worth, Texas. Established in 1989 as the Texas Wesleyan University School of Law, it was formerly the law school of Texas Wesleyan University until it was acquired by Texas A&M University on August 12, 2013. On August 13, 2013, fully accredited by the American Bar Association, it began operations at the same location. The law school is a member of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) and offers the Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree through its full-time and part-time programs. Students may also pursue a Master of Laws (LL.M.) or Master of Legal Studies (M.L.S.) degree either online or in-residence.