Winfield Garage

The garage was named for a hotel that changed its name. Fort Worth Architecture, a local building guide, says Sanguinet and Staats designed it to serve the new Winfield Hotel, which was renamed the Hotel Texas before it opened, yet the garage kept the Winfield name. The Handbook of Texas says almost every tall building put up in Fort Worth before 1930 came from that firm's office, which Marshall Sanguinet and Carl Staats founded in 1903. In 1981 Jackson and Ayers converted the garage to offices, and the city later named it a landmark.

What the plaque says

Winfield Garage By 1919 Fort Worth had become a booming commercial center because of the oil and cattle markets. To accommodate this growth, the Winfield Garage was opened in April 1920 and operated a livery service with 25 touring cars and limousines. Designed by the architectural firm of Sanguinet & Staats to park 325 vehicles, it was called the largest and most modern in the state. The garage hosted the city's first annual auto show, which attracted about 50,000 visitors. Later the facility housed other businesses related to the auto industry. (1983)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tarrant County Courthouse — 0.5 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.
• Kimbell Art Museum — 2.2 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 — 2.5 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.
• 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.

More markers nearby

• Site of Majestic Theatre — steps away
• General William Jenkins Worth (1794-1849) — steps away
• Ephraim Merrill Daggett — steps away
• Shelton Building — steps away