Knights of Pythias Building, Medieval-style fraternal clubhouse in Main Street, Fort Worth, United States.
The Knights of Pythias Building is a three-story red brick structure with medieval architectural elements located on Main Street in Fort Worth. The structure features narrow pointed arches, decorative brickwork details, and turret-like corners that give it a castle-like appearance.
A fire in 1901 destroyed the original building on this site, prompting the local Knights of Pythias chapter to commission a replacement that same year. Architects Sanguinet and Staats designed the new structure to echo the medieval style of its predecessor.
The Knights of Pythias, a fraternal order, built this hall in 1901 on the site of the first Pythian Castle Hall ever constructed, an 1881 structure that burned that year. The building's name and castle-like styling recall the order's lodge use. Today Haltom's Jewelers is the lead tenant at 315 Main Street.
The building stands at 315 Main Street, within the Sundance Square area of downtown Fort Worth, and is best reached on foot while walking the historic core. Haltom's Jewelers occupies the ground floor as lead tenant, so the storefront is the part a passerby sees up close; the upper floors are not open as a visitor attraction.
The upper floors once housed Fort Worth's first offset printing press, a significant innovation in print technology of that era. Later a coin-operated laundry occupied part of the building before a major restoration effort brought it back to condition in 1981.
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