Fort Worth · 76110
Living in Berkeley Place, Fort Worth
About 500 houses between Forest Park and the railroad, more than 300 of them built in the 1920s.
Rather talk it through? Call or text (817) 631-9803
About 500 houses between Forest Park and the railroad, more than 300 of them built in the 1920s.
Rather talk it through? Call or text (817) 631-9803
Where it is
Berkeley Place is a Fort Worth neighborhood on the east side of Forest Park.
- 1Forest Park Gates
- 2Lily B. Clayton Elementary
On the City of Fort Worth’s map, Berkeley Place runs from Forest Park on the west to the railroad on the east, with Mistletoe Heights to the north and Ward Parkway at about its south edge. It is in ZIP code 76110. Inside the city’s line are about 240 acres and 508 houses.
The neighborhood association puts its south edge at Ward Parkway. The city’s line runs a little past it and takes in ten more houses.
Inside Berkeley Place
The Cheltenham streetlights. Slender fluted metal poles, put up in the Cheltenham blocks between about 1926 and 1928, by Historic Fort Worth’s account.
The Forest Park Apartments. A twelve-story apartment building from 1927–28, on the bluff by the park entrance, now condominiums and a city landmark since 1991.
On the west edge
Forest Park and its gates. Two thirty-foot limestone towers from 1917–18 mark the park entrance at the neighborhood’s northwest corner. The city says they were restored in 1980 with help from Berkeley neighborhood funding, and again in 2009–10.
The Fort Worth Zoo. On its Forest Park site since 1909; the zoo calls it the oldest continuous zoo site in Texas.
Forest Park Pool. Opened in June 1922 below the bluff. The city calls it the oldest aquatics facility in Fort Worth.
Across the north edge
Lily B. Clayton Elementary. Opened in 1922. Its grounds sit just across the north edge, inside Mistletoe Heights’ line.
Road miles, measured from the middle of Berkeley Place
- The Fort Worth Zoo 1.0 mi
- TCU 1.5 mi
- The Kimbell Art Museum 3.5 mi
- Downtown Fort Worth 3.5 mi
- The Shops at Clearfork 4.5 mi
Which neighborhood
Berkeley Place’s two neighbors have historic districts. Berkeley Place has none.
Some real estate sites sell Berkeley Place together with Mistletoe Heights, across its north edge, or with Ryan Place, across the railroad to the east. On the city’s map they are three neighborhoods, and only two of them have a historic district. Most of Mistletoe Heights is a local historic district, and exterior changes inside the district go through the city’s historic review. In Ryan Place, one street, Elizabeth Boulevard, is a historic district, and the rest is not. Berkeley Place is in no historic district at all.
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Mistletoe Heights
341 of 409
houses inside the Mistletoe Heights historic district
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Ryan Place
41 of 803
houses inside the Elizabeth Boulevard historic district
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Berkeley Place
0 of 508
houses inside a historic district, though the city’s map marks ten as landmarks on their own
It’s an easy mix-up to make. So before you count a house as Berkeley Place, look up its lot on the city’s map. Whether it carries a historic designation there, not the name on the listing, decides which rules apply.
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The houses
Most of Berkeley Place was built in one decade, the 1920s.
Of the 507 houses with a recorded build year, 316 date from the 1920s, and 77 from 1928 alone. In all, 394 carry a build year of 1940 or earlier. Only 24 carry one from 2000 on.
Berkeley Place houses by recorded build year, 1919 to 1945
By the neighborhood association’s account, William Joseph Rogers bought about 137 acres here in 1901 for a grain and dairy farm, the city annexed the area in 1922, and in 1924 the farm was sold and divided into house lots. Historic Fort Worth records that the new deed restrictions forbade wood exteriors, so the Rogers farmhouse, still standing as the Rogers-O’Daniel House, was re‑clad in brick. The northern blocks, recorded on the Cheltenham plat, filled first: half of their 151 houses carry a build year of 1924 or earlier. The southern blocks are on the Berkeley plat, where the median build year is 1928.
So a house you buy here is most likely from the 1920s or 1930s: 383 of the 507 are. If it needs a bigger kitchen, another bath or a plan that fits how you live, our design and construction teams remodel houses like it. Our real estate agents can price it as it stands and as it would be finished.
Whole-home remodels in Fort Worth
$150,000–$750,000
a smaller house with mostly surface work at the low end, a large house taken down to the studs at the top.
Ranges for a whole-home remodel in Fort Worth, not a quote. Before there are drawings, a range is the only honest number anyone can give you — the spread between a high and a low bid on the same job is routinely 20% or more. We bill Cost Plus, so when there is a plan you see the actual materials, labor and subcontractor costs, plus our overhead and profit, rather than a single figure with the unknowns padded into it.
What changes the price
- What is behind the walls. Two houses with identical floor plans can carry very different budgets depending on the age and condition of the wiring, plumbing and ductwork — and none of that is readable from the curb, which is why we walk the whole house before we price anything.
- How much of the plan is actually structural. Some of the walls in the way are holding up the house and some are not, and that difference is often the biggest swing in the budget. The answer comes from the framing, not the floor plan, and an engineer confirms it before anything comes down.
- Square footage, straightforwardly. This is the one service where the range is mostly a size range.
- Whether you live in it. Phasing a remodel around an occupied house adds time and protection work that an empty one does not need.
- Per square foot
- $100–$300
- How long it takes
- 5–12 months
- Fort Worth permit fees
- $1,200–$4,000
- Set aside a contingency
- 15–20% of budgeton a down-to-studs remodel, we would not go lower
The lots
Most Berkeley Place lots are about 60 feet wide.
On the city’s parcel map, 293 of the 508 lots are between 55 and 65 feet wide. The median lot is about 62 feet wide and 145 feet deep. The most common recorded lot is about 8,400 square feet, the size of a 60-by-140-foot lot, and 119 lots have it. Another 61 are about 9,000 square feet, or 60 by 150.
The lots nearest the park run wider: within about 330 feet of Forest Park, the median is about 77 feet. About two thirds of the land is zoned A-5, which allows a lot as narrow as 50 feet. All but a handful of lots here are wider than that.
The 508 lots by width
- Under 55 ft · 7 lots
- 55 to 65 ft · 293 lots
- 65 to 80 ft · 84 lots
- 80 to 100 ft · 61 lots
- 100 ft or more · 63 lots
Measured from the city’s parcel map, not a survey.
The schools
Every Berkeley Place house we asked the district about is zoned to Lily B. Clayton Elementary and Paschal High.
Fort Worth ISD assigns schools by street address. We asked the district’s School Finder about 196 houses inside the line, using its 2026–27 boundaries. All 196 were zoned to Lily B. Clayton Elementary, McLean 6th Grade, McLean Middle and Paschal High. Lily B. Clayton is just across the north edge, inside Mistletoe Heights’ line, and none of the four sits inside Berkeley Place.
The district’s boundaries are set for each school year, so check the house’s own address in the School Finder.
Texas Education Agency ratings, 2026
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Lily B. Clayton Elementary
PreK–5
B86/100
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McLean 6th Grade
6
C76/100
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McLean Middle
7–8
B88/100
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Paschal High
9–12
B87/100
Each row is the campus’s overall 2026 letter and score.
Our work in Berkeley Place
An addition of more than 300 square feet and a primary bath, both in Berkeley Place.
Addition and whole-home remodel
A Spanish Revival house, gutted and added onto
We added over 300 square feet. Gutted it down to the studs. Redesigned the layout from scratch.
Design and construction
Primary bath
A leaking tub, then a new primary bath
A modern tub sits inside a large shower, behind frameless glass with brass clips.
Design
Both houses are inside the city’s line. Our design and construction teams built the addition and remodeled the rest of that house, and our design team planned the bath. Our real estate agents work under the same roof, so you can buy a Berkeley Place house and remodel it with us, sell one, or use just one of us.
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Questions
Berkeley Place, answered from the public record: Cheltenham, the neighbors, landmarks, flooding and schools.
Is Cheltenham part of Berkeley Place?
Yes. The city’s line takes in the Cheltenham plat, and the neighborhood association says the neighborhood commonly includes it. Of Berkeley Place’s 508 houses, 151 are recorded on Cheltenham and 309 on the Berkeley plat; the other 48 are on three smaller plats. The ornamental streetlights Historic Fort Worth dates to about 1926 to 1928 stand in the Cheltenham blocks.
Is Berkeley Place part of Mistletoe Heights or Ryan Place?
No. The city maps them as three separate neighborhoods. Mistletoe Heights is across the north edge, and Ryan Place is across the railroad to the east. Some listings pair them, so look up the lot itself on the city’s map: a historic designation there decides the rules for exterior work. In Mistletoe Heights, 341 of the 409 houses sit inside the historic district; none in Berkeley Place do, though the city’s map marks ten as landmarks on their own.
Is Berkeley Place a historic district?
No. Berkeley Place lies outside all fourteen of the historic districts the city has designated. For most houses here, exterior work needs no historic review, only whatever permit the work itself calls for. The city’s map marks ten houses as landmarks in their own right; for those, outside changes wait on a historic certificate from the city. One more house carries a demolition delay, a rule that matters only if the house would be torn down or moved. One house here, the Rogers‑O’Daniel House, is among the state’s Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks, which means 60 days’ written notice to the Texas Historical Commission before outside changes. Being in the county’s historic survey, or on the National Register by itself, adds no rule for a private owner.
What schools is a Berkeley Place house zoned to?
Using Fort Worth ISD’s 2026–27 boundaries, all 196 houses we asked about are zoned to Lily B. Clayton Elementary, McLean 6th Grade, McLean Middle and Paschal High. The district assigns schools by street address, so for one house, look it up in its School Finder.
Is Berkeley Place in a flood zone?
Mostly no. Of the 508 house lots inside the city’s line, 12 reach into the area FEMA maps for a 1 percent yearly flood risk, half of them south of Ward Parkway, and none reach the city’s own regulatory flood areas. The city also draws an advisory “potential high water” area along the Clear Fork, and 60 lots touch that one; it is a warning, not a rule. For one house, FEMA’s online flood map shows where its lot falls, and the seller’s disclosure asks about past flooding.
Does Berkeley Place have an HOA?
Not a mandatory one. Berkeley Place’s neighborhood group is the Berkeley Place Association, and the city records its membership as voluntary. In 2018 the city named it Neighborhood of the Year. An old deed restriction can still apply to a particular lot; the title commitment is where it shows up.
Is The Berkeley apartment complex in Berkeley Place?
No. The Berkeley is an apartment complex just south of the neighborhood, on land the city’s map places in the Paschal neighborhood, not in Berkeley Place. The two names are easy to mix up in a search.
How far is Berkeley Place from downtown Fort Worth and TCU?
About 3.5 road miles from the middle of Berkeley Place to Sundance Square. The Fort Worth Zoo’s entrance is about a mile away, TCU about a mile and a half, and the Kimbell Art Museum in the Cultural District about 3.5 miles.
More on Berkeley Place
Master bath remodels in Berkeley Place
Planning a primary bath in a 1920s Berkeley Place house: masonry walls, what is under the floor, and what it costs.
Go →Whole-home remodels in Berkeley Place
Reworking a 1920s floor plan inside the house you have, and what a whole‑home remodel costs.
Go →All Fort Worth neighborhood guides
The other guides, plus house and lot sizes for more Fort Worth neighborhoods.
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Your next step
Get the facts on one Berkeley Place house before you buy it or change it.
- 1 Tell us the address, or send us the listing.
- 2 We can check four things for it: which neighborhood it is in, any designation on its parcel, its lot width and its assigned schools.
- 3 Our real estate agents tell you what it would sell for, and our designers and builders give you a price range for the work you want.
If you are under contract on a house a listing calls Berkeley Place, find out during your option period whether its lot carries a historic designation on the city’s map. After it ends, a surprise historic review is no longer a reason you can cancel.
If you already own here, the same checks are where a remodel starts. Send us the address and we’ll tell you what we would do first.
Sources
Verified October 2026. Boundary: the City of Fort Worth’s registration for the Berkeley Place association and the association’s outline in the city’s GIS. Houses, build years, lot sizes, plats, zoning and designations: Tarrant Appraisal District parcels (tax year 2026) as the city’s GIS publishes them, read on October 18, 2026. “Houses” are the parcels the appraisal district classes as single-family, with condominiums left out, counted only where the whole parcel sits inside the line, so counts run slightly low. Lot widths are each parcel’s mapped short side, not a survey. Historic districts and designations: the city’s historic layers, read the same day; Mistletoe Heights and Ryan Place counted the same way inside their own association outlines. Floodplain: FEMA’s mapped flood zone and the city’s regulatory and advisory flood layers. Schools: Fort Worth ISD’s School Finder, 2026–27 boundaries, asked at 196 houses; ratings from the Texas Education Agency’s 2026 accountability reports. History: the Berkeley Place Association’s account; Historic Fort Worth (the Forest Park Apartments, the Cheltenham streetlights and the deed restrictions); the City of Fort Worth’s Forest Park page (the gates and the pool); the Fort Worth Zoo; the city’s Neighborhood of the Year list. Lily B. Clayton’s opening year: its National Register nomination. The state landmark rule: the Texas Historical Commission. National Register listing: the National Park Service. Distances: road miles along the shortest route OpenStreetMap’s routing service found from the middle of the neighborhood on October 18, 2026, rounded to the nearest half mile. You won’t find sale prices, asking prices, days on market, assessed values or house sizes here. Listing prices change constantly, and the city’s house-size field changed this fall.