Farrington Field, Multi-purpose stadium in Fort Worth, United States
Farrington Field is a multipurpose stadium in Fort Worth, Texas, built in an Art Deco style with fluted columns and star-decorated capitals. The concrete structure holds around 18,500 spectators and serves several Fort Worth schools for football and track events.
Farrington Field was completed in 1939, designed by Preston M. Geren and paid for with federal WPA funds plus a local contribution from the school district. It was named in memory of E.S. Farrington, a long-serving superintendent of the Fort Worth Independent School District. In 1986 local preservationists succeeded in saving the stadium.
The stadium's name honors E.S. Farrington, a long-serving superintendent of the Fort Worth Independent School District. Local preservationists succeeded in saving the building in 1986. In February 2021 the parking lots served as a drive-through COVID-19 vaccination site, and the field was returfed in 2022 along with other FWISD stadiums.
Since the stadium is used mainly for school events, it is worth checking schedules in advance as the calendar follows the academic year. Access to the building is straightforward, and the Art Deco facade can be appreciated from the outside even when no event is on.
In 1944, around 24,800 people packed in for a high school football game between North Side and Paschal, far exceeding the normal capacity. That single game still holds a place in local memory as a sign of how much the sport meant to the city.
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