Flatiron Building

Architect: Sanguinet and Staats
Year: 1907
Style: Chicago School
City: Fort Worth, TX
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The Flatiron Building, completed in 1907 in downtown Fort Worth, was designed by the firm Sanguinet and Staats in the Chicago School style. Its wedge-shaped footprint gives the building its name, and it is recognized as both a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark and a National Register of Historic Places listing.

the building

The flatiron form. The building takes its name from its distinctive flatiron-shaped plan, a memorable form within downtown Fort Worth's streetscape.

the style

Sanguinet and Staats designed the building in the Chicago School idiom, the same commercial architectural tradition applied to their other Fort Worth downtown buildings.

the architect

Sanguinet and Staats was a Fort Worth architecture firm also responsible for the W. T. Waggoner Building, Our Lady of Victory Academy, and, with Wyatt C. Hedrick, the First National Bank Building.

significance

The Flatiron Building is recognized as a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

nearby

Bryce Building 260 ft · Renaissance Revival
Fort Worth Public Safety and Courts Building 290 ft · Streamline Moderne · 1938
W. T. Waggoner Building 490 ft · Chicago School
St. Patrick Cathedral in Fort Worth 500 ft · Gothic Revival · 1962
Hotel Texas 0.1 mi · Chicago School · 1982
Neil P. Anderson Building 0.1 mi · Chicago School · 1921

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