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M. A. Benton House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district Contributing property
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark
Benton House in 2022
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Location	1730 6th Ave., Fort Worth, Texas
Coordinates	32°43′31″N 97°20′24″W / 32.72528°N 97.34000°W / 32.72528; -97.34000
Area	0.5 acres (0.20 ha)
Built	1898 (1898)
Architectural style	Late Victorian
Part of	Fairmount-Southside Historic District (ID90000490)
NRHP reference No.	78002982
RTHL No.	374
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	May 22, 1978
Designated CP	April 5, 1990
Designated RTHL	1971

The M. A. Benton House is an historic landmark in Fort Worth, Texas (USA), located on a four-lot corner at 1730 Sixth Avenue. This Victorian-style house, still owned by Benton descendants, was built in 1898 and is one of the oldest homes in Fort Worth. The descendants have preserved the cottage's architecture features, including the one-and-a-half-story structure and the fence that has surrounded the cottage since it was first built. As a family home, it is not open to the public. The Benton House is individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places for its architectural qualities. In 1971, the Benton House was designated a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark.

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

1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
2. National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: M. A. Benton House. NARA. Retrieved February 28, 2023.
3. Nieke, William (April 22, 2009). "Benton House". Texas Historical Marker. Archived from the original on July 7, 2011.
4. 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

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