Fort Worth · 76109
Living in Park Hill, Fort Worth
134 houses on high ground beside the Fort Worth Zoo and Forest Park, and a third of them were built from 1926 to 1929.
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Where it is
Park Hill in Fort Worth is a neighborhood of 134 houses in 76109, beside the Fort Worth Zoo and half a road mile from TCU.
The city’s neighborhood map draws Park Hill’s line around about 67 acres. Inside it are 134 houses, every one with a 76109 address and inside the City of Fort Worth. The Fort Worth Zoo and Forest Park meet the line on its north and east, and University Place, University West and Frisco Heights border it on the other sides. The houses sit on high ground: at the median, a Park Hill lot is about 70 feet above the Zoo and Forest Park land just outside the line.
Park Hill Place, the homeowners association next door, is a separate area: none of Park Hill’s 134 houses is inside it.
Road miles from the middle of Park Hill
- 0.5mi
- TCU
- 1mi
- The Fort Worth Zoo’s entrance
- 2.5mi
- Dickies Arena
- 3mi
- The Kimbell Art Museum
- 4mi
- Downtown Fort Worth
The houses
Park Hill’s oldest recorded house dates from 1926, and 64 of its 134 were built before 1940.
In the appraisal district’s records, 44 of the 134 carry a build year from 1926 to 1929, and twelve carry one of 2000 or later.
Park Hill’s 134 houses, one square each, by the decade of their recorded build year
44 houses recorded from 1926 to 1929.
After the late 1920s, the rest filled in slowly. Twenty more carry a build year in the 1930s, 25 in the 1940s and 17 in the 1950s. Only 16 carry a year from 1960 to 1999.
Every one of the 134 is on the same recorded plat, the Parkhill Addition, so a listing’s legal description should name it. If a listing calls itself Park Hill and names another addition, it isn’t one of the 134 houses inside the city’s line.
Lot sizes inside the line
- Under 10,000 sq ft 36 lots
- 10,000 to 14,999 sq ft 61 lots
- 15,000 sq ft to under half an acre 24 lots
- Half an acre or more 13 lots
The lots run about 12,500 square feet at the median, and eight in ten fall between about 8,300 and 21,700. Thirteen are half an acre or more, and the smallest is about 7,100.
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The schools
Park Hill’s houses are zoned to Lily B. Clayton Elementary, McLean 6th Grade, McLean Middle and Paschal High.
Park Hill is in Fort Worth ISD. The district’s School Finder, on its 2026–27 boundaries, returned the same four schools for each of the 134 houses. Sixth grade is a campus of its own, ahead of McLean Middle’s seventh and eighth grades.
Before you sign a contract, enter the address in the district’s School Finder yourself. Boundaries can change from one school year to the next, and the school district also sets part of the property tax bill.
Texas Education Agency ratings, 2026
Lily B. Clayton Elementary
PK–5 · 86/100
McLean 6th Grade
6 · 76/100
McLean Middle
7–8 · 88/100
Paschal High
9–12 · 87/100
Remodel or build new
If you own a house in Park Hill, you can remodel it, add on, or build new on the lot.
When the house no longer fits the way you live, there are three ways to go.
Remodel what you have, keeping the house and changing how it works inside.
Add on, with a primary suite at the back or a second story.
Or build new on the lot: twelve of the 134 houses carry a build year of 2000 or later.
Our real estate agents can tell you what each path would do to the house’s value, and our design and construction teams can price each one. You see both numbers before you choose.
What you can build depends on the lot. All but one of the 134 houses sit in the same residential zoning district, so the same rules for how close a house can come to the property line and how much of the lot it can cover apply to nearly every house. How those rules land on one lot still depends on its shape and the houses beside it. The remaining house sits in a commercial district. The city’s zoning map shows the district for any lot.
No historic district reaches Park Hill, but eleven houses carry a city designation of their own. Four are city landmarks, where changes to the outside go through the city’s historic review before a permit. Seven have a demolition delay, which adds a review only if someone wants to take the house down or move it. Look up a parcel on the city’s zoning map before you plan a rebuild.
Neither FEMA’s mapped flood zones nor the city’s flood risk areas touch Park Hill’s line.
Home additions in Fort Worth
$60,000–$420,000
a bump-out at the low end, a full second story at the top.
Ranges for a home addition 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
- Which kind of addition. A bump-out borrows the roof and structure you already have; a second story needs engineering, a staircase, a new roofline and every system re-integrated.
- Whether a bathroom is in it. Plumbing into new square footage is $15,000–$35,000 on its own, and how far it sits from existing lines decides where in that band you land.
- What the existing house can carry. Whether the foundation extends, whether a bearing wall is in the way, and whether the framing can take a floor above it are answers that come from opening things up, not from the curb.
- Per square foot
- $175–$400
- How long it takes
- 3–9 months
- Fort Worth permit fees
- $1,200–$3,500
- Set aside a contingency
- 15–20% of budgetfor what the existing house turns out to be hiding
Our work nearby
Two projects we finished near Park Hill: a second story in University Place and a Spanish Revival remodel in Berkeley Place.
The second story is next door in University Place, and the Spanish Revival house is in Berkeley Place, to the east. Neither is inside Park Hill. One call can cover buying a Park Hill house, changing it and selling it, or any one of the three.
University Place · Second-story addition
A second story a few blocks from TCU
A full second story on a one-story house. Three bedrooms became five.
Design and construction
Berkeley Place · Whole-home remodel
The house they rented, then bought and rebuilt
Then one day, this family decided: This house wasn’t a stepping stone. It was home.
Design and construction
Best Home Builder & Remodeler
Fort Worth MagazineFort Worth Chamber Small Business of the Year4.7 stars from 91 Google reviews as of September 2026
Questions
Park Hill, Fort Worth, in nine questions.
Where is Park Hill in Fort Worth?
In ZIP code 76109, beside the Fort Worth Zoo and Forest Park and about half a road mile from TCU. The city’s map draws its line around about 67 acres, with University Place, University West and Frisco Heights on the sides away from the parks.
Is Park Hill next to the Fort Worth Zoo?
Yes. The Zoo’s grounds and Forest Park both meet the neighborhood’s line, and at the median the houses sit about 70 feet above that parkland. By road, the Zoo’s public entrance is about a mile from the middle of Park Hill.
When were the houses in Park Hill built?
Across nearly a century. The oldest recorded build year is 1926, 44 of the 134 houses carry a year from 1926 to 1929, and 64 date from before 1940. Twelve carry 2000 or later.
How big are the lots in Park Hill?
About 12,500 square feet at the median, going by the recorded lot area. Thirteen lots are half an acre or more, and the smallest is about 7,100 square feet.
Which schools are Park Hill houses zoned to?
Lily B. Clayton Elementary, McLean 6th Grade, McLean Middle and Paschal High. Fort Worth ISD’s School Finder named those four for all 134 houses on its 2026–27 boundaries. Boundaries move, so run the exact address yourself before you make an offer.
Is Park Hill a historic district?
No, none of the city’s designated districts reaches it. Eleven houses are designated one at a time: four as city landmarks and seven with a demolition delay. The city’s zoning map shows which, parcel by parcel.
Is Park Hill in a flood zone?
No. FEMA’s mapped flood zones and the city’s own flood risk areas both stay clear of the line. A seller’s disclosure is still the place to read about water or drainage on a lot.
Is there an HOA in Park Hill?
The city’s map shows no homeowners association over Park Hill’s houses. The one it shows beside the line, Park Hill Place, holds none of the 134. The city’s record for the Park Hill neighborhood association lists it as inactive. A lot’s title commitment lists any deed restrictions or association.
Can I build a new house on a lot in Park Hill?
Yes, on most lots: 123 of the 134 houses carry no city designation, and twelve carry a build year of 2000 or later. Check the parcel before you buy to rebuild. A city landmark or a demolition delay adds a review before a house comes down, and the zoning sets what can go back up.
More on Park Hill
Berkeley Place
The neighborhood just to the east, about 400 feet from Park Hill’s line, with houses of its own from the 1920s.
Go →Home additions in Fort Worth
How we add a primary suite or a second story, and what an addition costs here.
Go →All Fort Worth neighborhood guides
The other guides, plus house and lot sizes for more Fort Worth neighborhoods.
Go →Your next step
One Park Hill house, two numbers: what it would sell for, and what remodeling, adding on or building new would cost.
- 1 Start with one house: a listing you’ve found, or your own.
- 2 We look it up in the public records: its lot, its zoning, any city designation and its school zone.
- 3 You get both answers: what our real estate agents think it would sell for, and a price range from our designers and builders for the work.
If you’re buying to rebuild or add on, look up the parcel’s designation and zoning before your option period closes. A landmark or a demolition delay adds a city review, and the zoning sets how much of the lot you can cover. Until it closes, you can still back out of the contract for any reason.
Then the choice is yours. If you ask, we’ll tell you what we would do.
Sources
Verified October 29, 2026. The neighborhood: the City of Fort Worth’s Neighborhood Organizations map layer, read on October 29, 2026; the city lists the Park Hill association as inactive, and its line is still the one on the map. Houses, build years, lots and the plat: Tarrant Appraisal District parcels as the city’s GIS publishes them, read the same day. “Houses” are the parcels the appraisal district classes as single-family, and a house counts when its whole lot is inside the line, so lots the line crosses are left out. Build years are assessment records, not permit dates. Zoning, designations and flood areas: the city’s map layers and FEMA’s mapped flood zone; what a designation means: the city’s historic preservation office. Schools: Fort Worth ISD’s School Finder (2026–27 boundaries), asked at all 134 houses; ratings from the Texas Education Agency’s 2026 accountability reports, read October 18, 2026. The Zoo and Forest Park: the city’s parks map layer. Elevation: the U.S. Geological Survey’s elevation service, read on October 29, 2026, at every house’s lot center and at points inside the Zoo and Forest Park within 300 feet of the line; the 70 feet compares the two medians, rounded to the nearest 10 feet. Distances: road miles along the shortest route OpenStreetMap’s routing service found from the middle of the line on October 29, 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 sites update prices constantly and draw Park Hill their own way, an assessed value is set for property tax, and the house-size field in the city’s parcel map changed in fall 2026.