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Dee Ashley
Location: DFW, Texas Gender: Female Total Likes: 1378 likes
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| | | | Re: Latest Urbex News < Reply # 169 on 12/5/2019 3:17 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | A 180 day freeze was put into place for the demolition of one of the largest and last still-standing Ku Klux Klan meeting halls at the request of several historic societies and the like. That time is almost up. I predict the building will be quickly razed once the time limit has passed with the least amount of fanfare and/or publicity possible ( if that's possible). Even the building's owners want to see it demolished, which makes my prediction a fairly good one, imo. Here is the most recent article I've found of late on the location: https://www.csmoni...a-place-of-healing Lastly, here's a snippet and photo from one of my Flickr albums I did on the place a few years ago: In the 1920's, the Ku Klux Klan was still a major influence in America, particularly in the Southern U.S. This was the largest of their meeting halls in the area at the time, housing more than 4,000 members in its massive auditorium. I don't typically comment much on a lot of the locations I photograph for various reasons, but I do want to make an exception for this particular one. This is a building that I have wanted to learn more about for a while now due to its immense (albeit, at first, very dark) historical value. It is evident that the bulk of the structure was used as an auditorium, complete with the remnants of a stage. This is not a proud part of Fort Worth's history, but it is a very important part, in my humble opinion. The proceeding is an excerpt from the Fort Worth Star Telegram for those interested in more of the story behind the location: "The building, designed by Earl Glasgow with a 4,000-seat auditorium, was built in 1924 as the local headquarters of the Ku Klux Klan after the firebombing of an almost identical building on the site that was built in 1920, Historic Fort Worth said. In 1931, Leonard Brothers Department Store bought the building for a warehouse. It was later converted for use as the Fox and Fox Boxing Arena. Ellis Pecan bought it in 1946 and ceased its operation in 1999. A local engineering firm owned the property for a short time and had plans to renovate the structure for its offices."
| The Klavern by Dee Ashley, on Flickr I think it's incredibly interesting that such a dark and influential piece of our history has sat in the same spot (more or less - it did get burned down/bombed a couple times) for an entire century, yet most people around here drive by it every day without even knowing it exists, let alone what went on inside.
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