M. A. Benton House
History
The Benton House was owned by a tobacco seller, Meredith A. Benton, and his wife, Ella Belle. M. A. Benton's father, a Kansas City builder, erected the house for the couple in 1898. It was built originally with a barn and hayloft and a two-room servants’ house, but the servants’ quarters were redesigned into a garage building in 1937. Ella Belle Benton lived alone for most of the time because her husband was an active civic worker. She helped start the Rose Gardens, now part of the Fort Worth Botanic Garden, as well as a public kindergarten program.
Features
The Benton House is a Victorian gingerbread home. Made of cypress, it contains six rooms, a central hall, and tiled fireplaces. Some special features of this house are an asymmetrical floorplan, fine spindle work, cross gables over a hipped roof, and a cutaway window.
It is marked by a Texas Historical Marker.
It is subject of a painting by "Texas's Grandma Moses", Sweetie Ladd.
See also
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Tarrant County, Texas
- Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks in Tarrant County
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
- ^ National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: M. A. Benton House. NARA. Retrieved February 28, 2023.
- ^ Nieke, William (April 22, 2009). "Benton House". Texas Historical Marker. Archived from the original on July 7, 2011.
- ^ Cissy Stewart Lale; Sweetie Ladd (creator) (1999). "Benton House.". Sweetie Ladd's Historic Fort Worth. TCU Press. ISBN 9780875651965. Retrieved April 23, 2009.
Roark, Carol E. Fort Worth's Legendary Landmarks. Illus. Byrd Williams. Fort Worth: Texas Christian UP, 1995. Print.
External links
Media related to M. A. Benton House at Wikimedia Commons