F. W. Woolworth Building (Fort Worth, Texas)

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F.W. Woolworth Building
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Woolworth Building in 2011
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Location	501 Houston St., Fort Worth, Texas
Coordinates	32°45′12″N 97°19′52″W / 32.75333°N 97.33111°W / 32.75333; -97.33111
Area	less than one acre
Built	1925 (1925)
Architect	Wiley G. Clarkson, James T. Taylor
Architectural style	Classical Revival
NRHP reference No.	94001359^[1]
Added to NRHP	November 25, 1994

The F.W. Woolworth Building is a historic department store building located in Sundance Square section of downtown Fort Worth, Texas. The building served as a retail location for the F. W. Woolworth Company from 1926 to 1990. It now houses other tenants including a JoS. A. Bank Clothiers store.

Designed by Wiley G. Clarkson and James T. Taylor to be ten stories tall, the limestone and concrete structure was only built as a three-story building. The Classical Revival building includes an elaborate frieze. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1994.

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^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.

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