Gunhild Weber House
Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas
Marker Inscription
This was the first home built in a 1907 subdivision opened by D.T. Bomar and John W. Broad. It shows influences from the West Coast, where Broad lived from 1896 to 1906. Charles K. Lee, later a State Bar Association, President, bought the house in 1914. He added a room and porte cochere. The Lees lived here 15 years. Mrs. Gunhild Weber, a native of Norway and a Fort Worth business executive, has owned the house since buying it from the Lucie C. Lee estate, 1944. Recorded Texas Historical Landmark-1978.
Erected by Texas Historical Commission
The Story
This was the first house built in a 1907 Fort Worth subdivision, its design carrying West Coast influences absorbed by developer John W. Broad during a decade in California. Attorney Charles K. Lee, later a State Bar president, bought and enlarged it in 1914. Since 1944 it has belonged to Gunhild Weber, a Norwegian-born Fort Worth business executive whose long ownership gave the house its name.
Why it matters
The house links two threads of the American story — the westward flow of architectural taste and the rise of an immigrant woman as a city business leader.
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Related people
- · Gunhild Weber
- · Charles K. Lee
- · John W. Broad
- · D. T. Bomar
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