Mudgett aka Holmes aka Lyman aka Pratt, the builder of the Murder Castle in Fort Worth, was executed by hanging in 1896.

Top o' Hill Terrace was one the biggest gambling halls, bordellos, and speakeasies in the Southwest.

Most of the buildings that lie inside Fair Park in Dallas today are landmarks built purposefully for the 1936 Centennial Exposition.

Architecture was coded and uniform to be efficient in their builds, even the places that we now view as one-of-a-kind quaintness.

Fort Griffin marked the boundary line ("the frontier") between Native American lands and white settlement ("civilization").

US 80, formerly known as the Dixie Overland Highway, merges with the Bankhead Highway and is the mother road of the Red River Valley.

The old Boston Jail in New Boston, not to be confused with the original (Texas) Boston.

The home of Charles DeMorse, publisher of the Northern Standard of the 1840s-1850, in Clarksville, Texas.

The toll bridge at Sowell's Bluff at the Red River, between Fannin County, Texas and Bryan County, Oklahoma collapsed in 1934.

In 1887 W.B. Wise of Paris, Lamar County, Texas decided to show off his wealth by building a Queen Anne style home.

The Index Bridge over the Red River between Texas and Arkansas was once a beautiful structure.

n 1940, photographer Marion Wolcott of the Works Progress Administration visited Natchitoches, Louisiana along the Cane River.

The Resettlement Administration was defunded when sharecroppers tenant farms were added to the program.

The former MKT freight depot behind the School Book Depository in downtown Dallas.

Let me bore you to sleep by telling you about the history of pavement on early Dallas roads!

To prevent shifty salesmen, the city of Shreveport erected an orderly Farmers Market.

Due to work related activities, I've been nosing around Gainesville (Cooke County, Texas) lately. The city was founded as a settlement in...

Since 1880s at least, and most likely at least two decades prior, the corner of State/ East Fourth/ Sam Rayburn and North Chestnut...

Sometime in the 1990s, the federal program called Historic Buildings Survey (HABS) documented the Coincoin- Prudhomme home along the Cane...

In the 1820s, the Blevins family built a primitive, two story cabin without the use of nails in today's Hempstead County, Arkansas.