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HISTORY
The Bluebonnet Hills neighborhood
lies approximately four miles southwest of the Fort Worth Central
Business District. Referred to as Bluebonnet Place by the current
neighborhood association, it is part of the original grantee's,
Elijah Sutherland, 1864 Survey. The neighborhood surrounds Bluebonnet
Circle and extends north to Berry Street.
The 165.5 acres included in the
Sutherland Survey were platted in 1929. This acreage is divided
by University Drive, with development on the western side beginning
in 1930.
Stadium Drive, on the western
boundary of Bluebonnet Hills was originally platted as Edgevale
Street in early 1929. Further north, the same street was platted
as Archer Street. When the Texas Christian University football
stadium was built on that street later in 1929, the street name
was changed to Stadium Drive.
To the east of University Drive,
along Park Ridge, Cockrell and Greene, some homes were built
in 1928 and 1929, but most development took place when the Bluebonnet
Hills Development Company began work in 1932.
L. H. Wentz and John J. Harden
of Oklahoma owned another portion of this land, which they began
developing in 1945, and completed in the early 1950's.
Berry Street, the northern boundary
of Bluebonnet Hills, was not paved by 1929, and the city limits
only extended to mid block. The entire area was annexed by the
city in 1937.
Deed restrictions in Bluebonnet
Hills specified that homes must cost at least $3,500 at the time
of construction.
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