TCU rebuilt its 1930 landmark into college football's Camden Yards - and paid cash. Amon G. Carter Stadium at 2850 Stadium Drive in Fort Worth opened on 11 October 1930 with the Horned Frogs beating Arkansas 40-0, a 22,000-seat Depression-era bowl named for the Star-Telegram publisher and tireless Fort Worth booster. Expansions through the 1950s - including the 1956 upper deck and its 18-story press box - carried the stadium to 46,000 and through the program's golden eras. The modern chapter is.....

A distinctive landmark of Fort Worth, Casa Manana is a celebrated theatre housed beneath a gleaming geodesic dome on West Lancaster Avenue. The institution traces its origins to a grand outdoor musical revue staged in the 1930s, and in 1958 it took up residence in its striking aluminium dome, becoming one of the first theatres in the United States to present musicals in the round, a format that has shaped its identity ever since. The theatre seats around eighteen hundred people arranged around .....

Fort Worth voters approved three new taxes by seventy-percent margins to build it, a billionaire led the private donors who covered the rest, and the result is the finest rodeo arena ever constructed. Dickies Arena at 1911 Montgomery Street, beside the Will Rogers Memorial Center in the Cultural District, opened with a public ribbon-cutting on 26 October 2019 and its first event - a Twenty One Pilots concert - on 8 November. The 540-million-dollar building was a public-private partnership capped.....

Horned Frog basketball finally got a home worthy of the Big 12 on 20 December 2015, when TCU beat Abilene Christian in a rebuilt arena that had been gutted to its circular shell. The Ed and Rae Schollmaier Arena at 2900 Stadium Drive in Fort Worth began life as Daniel-Meyer Coliseum, opened on 14 December 1961 after a 1.45-million-dollar build by local architect Joseph Pelich, who modelled the fully circular hall on arenas at Wichita State and Maryland and gave TCU fans 27 rows of seats around t.....

Four thousand tons of Palo Pinto sandstone, laid by Depression-era relief workers dreaming of Versailles, built the rose garden that started it all. The Fort Worth Botanic Garden at 3220 Botanic Garden Boulevard, in the city's Cultural District, was established in 1934 around that 1933 Rose Garden - making it the oldest major botanic garden in Texas, now listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The 120-acre campus grew from Rock Springs Park, land first acquired in 1912, and today ho.....

A 40-acre outdoor event complex on the banks of the Trinity River in the heart of Fort Worth, Texas, Panther Island Pavilion features five permanent stages, a 10,300-square-foot indoor venue called The Shack, and the only waterfront stage in the state. The downtown Fort Worth skyline serves as a dramatic backdrop for concerts, festivals, sporting events, 5K runs, and community gatherings held across three rentable zones. The North Shore Main Stage zone requires a minimum expected attendance of .....

The room doubles as a rodeo training arena three weeks a year - gala floor the rest. The Simmons Bank Pavilion at 1911 Montgomery Street is the 10,000-square-foot multi-use event space within Fort Worth's Dickies Arena complex, sitting directly below the Simmons Bank Plaza on the Will Rogers Memorial Center campus. The parent building set the standard: Dickies Arena, the 540-million-dollar, David M. Schwarz-designed 14,000-seat arena that opened in November 2019 as a public-private partnership .....

Fort Worth built it in 340 days flat, racing the calendar to honor a Texas Centennial and a dead humorist at the same time. Will Rogers Auditorium, the 2,856-seat Art Deco theater at 3401 West Lancaster Avenue in the Cultural District, went up in 1936 as part of the Will Rogers Memorial Center and was dedicated on January 10, 1937. The complex - auditorium to the west, domed coliseum to the east, the 209-foot Pioneer Tower between them - was designed by Wyatt C. Hedrick with Elmer G. Withers an.....