Fort Worth Flatiron Building

The wedge-shaped seven-story building at Houston and Ninth in Fort Worth is the only flatiron-style skyscraper in Texas, and one of five on the National Register of Historic Places. Architects Sanguinet and Staats designed it in nineteen oh seven as an office building for Bacon Saunders, the pioneering dean of Fort Worth Medical College. The triangular lot forced the unusual plan, just as it had for the famous Flatiron Building Daniel Burnham designed in New York in nineteen oh two.

The Fort Worth version is built of reinforced concrete and steel, the first of its kind in the city, and its ornamentation, including carved panther heads, echoes Louis Sullivan's Chicago school principles of base, shaft, and crown. The building became a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark in nineteen seventy.