Amon Carter Riverside High School and Riverside ISD

The building on Yucca Drive is from 1936, when Riverside High School opened as one of five Fort Worth high schools paid for with Works Progress Administration money. Architect Wyatt C. Hedrick gave it a Spanish Baroque look: an H-shaped plan, three stories of yellow brick, a red clay tile roof and a projecting stone entry. It first housed junior and senior high students together. After the 1941 renaming for Amon Carter, Hedrick's office designed a sympathetic rear addition in 1954, and later wings followed in 1957, 1979, 1988 and 2003.

What the plaque says

Amon Carter Riverside High School and Riverside ISD A community school system known as Trinity Bend existed as early as 1876 in what is now the Riverside neighborhood of Fort Worth. Classes were held in a one-room schoolhouse built by Dr. Eagle, a retired physician. The Pendleton District was created for this area in 1884, and the name Riverside was adopted fifteen years later. After the City of Fort Worth annexed the Riverside Community in 1922, the school became part of the Fort Worth educational system. In 1941 the school at this site was named for Fort Worth businessman and philanthropist Amon G. Carter. (1983)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tarrant County Courthouse — 2.5 mi
  A pink-granite courthouse of 1895 on the bluff where the Army set up Fort Worth in 1849, in a county named for the man who led the 1841 attack on the Native villages of Village Creek.
• Fort Worth Stockyards — 2.8 mi
  The brick-street cattle market where Armour and Swift built packing plants in 1902, now a National Register district with a Coliseum, a museum and a longhorn drive twice a day.
• Kimbell Art Museum — 4.4 mi
  Louis Kahn's cycloid-vaulted museum of 1972, built from Kay Kimbell's bequest and joined in 2013 by Renzo Piano's pavilion for the exhibitions the Kahn galleries could not hold.
• National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame — 4.8 mi
  A hall of fame begun in Hereford in 1975 to honor rodeo women, widened in 1977 to Western heritage, and housed in Fort Worth's Cultural District since 2002.

More markers nearby

• Mount Olivet Cemetery — 0.9 mi
• Dr. Riley Andrew Ransom — 1.1 mi
• General Edward H. Tarrant — 2.0 mi
• Pioneer's Rest Cemetery — 2.0 mi