- City:
- Fort Worth, TX
- Site Type:
- Parks and Recreation, Stadiums
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Artist:
- Evaline Sellors
- Designers:
- Arthur George King, Everett L. Frazier
Description
Farrington Field is a large multi-use stadium in Fort Worth, Texas. It was constructed in 1938-1939 by the WPA and designed by Arthur George King and Everett L. Frazier from the architecture firm of Preston M. Geren. Evaline Sellors did the bas relief sculptures of the football player and the track and field athlete.
Source notes
October 30, 1938. Dallas Morning News.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farrington_Field
Site originally submitted by Susan Kline on March 31, 2013.
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Richard Upton
Unbelievable
Susan Allen Kline
The wife of the person (Mr. Farrington) the stadium was named for was my spelling teacher in the 5th grade (1955) at George Clarke Elementary school in Fort Worth, Texas. I remember her as a very nice elderly lady and a very good teacher.
Check out pages 110-114 regarding Farrington Field in the book Unbelievable by Stella Brooks
Farrington Field (along with the neighboring Public Schools Gymnasium/Billingsley Field House) was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on February 2, 2022.