Land Title Building - Fort Worth, TX - Victorian Style Architecture on Waymarking.com

"A two-story red brick commercial building with flat roof and rectangular plan. This richly-textured and picturesquely composed Victorian building with rough limestone red sandstone trim has wooden framed storefronts on ground level, with arched window on second story with turreted, parapeted and towered corners. Simple parapet terra cotta panels.

The Land Title Block building is perhaps the finest Victorian commercial building remaining in Fort Worth. An eclectic building with touches of the Romanesque (Romanesque Revival), it displays a rich use of materials: fine pressed red brick walls, red sandstone trim, cast-iron columns, red terra cotta decorative panels, and original stained glass windows. Decoration is equally rich, as in the terra cotta panel depicting a mockingbird and an owl in a tree. The building is the oldest surviving work of the architect M.R. Sanguinet (Haggart & Sanguinet), the oldest structure with decorative stone carving, and the oldest continuously occupied office building in Fort Worth. In addition to a land title company, from which the building took its name, the original occupants included the legal firm of Ross, Head, and Ross, whose initials appear in a terra cotta panel above the second story of the front of the building."