Fort Worth · 76116
Living in Ridglea North, Fort Worth
About 1,000 houses just north of Camp Bowie Boulevard, and nine in ten were built in the 1940s or 1950s.
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Where it is
Ridglea North in Fort Worth is a neighborhood of about 1,000 houses on the west side, just north of Camp Bowie Boulevard.
The city registers Ridglea North as a neighborhood association, and its line takes in about 400 acres. Inside it are 996 houses, every one with a 76116 address and inside the City of Fort Worth. Ridglea Hills lies to the south across Camp Bowie, and Como to the east. Morris Berney Park, a city neighborhood park of about four acres, sits near the middle.
Ridglea North is one of five neighborhoods the city registers with Ridglea in the name. If you are comparing listings across them, our Ridglea Hills guide sets all five side by side.
Road miles from Morris Berney Park
- 3mi
- The Shops at Clearfork
- 3.5mi
- The Kimbell Art Museum
- 4mi
- Dickies Arena
- 5.5mi
- TCU
- 6mi
- Downtown Fort Worth
The houses
Most of Ridglea North’s houses were built in the 1940s and early 1950s, and about a third carry the same build year: 1942.
Of the 996 houses, 896 carry a build year from 1940 to 1959 in the appraisal district’s records. The biggest single year is 1942, with 318 houses, and 315 of them are in the Ridglea North Addition. Only 38 houses carry a build year of 2000 or later.
Ridglea North’s 996 houses by their recorded build year
1942: 318 houses. 1943: 93.
The subdivisions filled at different times. The Ridglea North Addition, the largest, holds 552 of the 996, most recorded in 1942 or 1943. The Chamberlain Arlington Heights lots filled in around 1948. The Z. Boaz Country Place Addition followed in the early 1950s, and the Myrtle B. Andrews Subdivision in 1953 and 1954. The Ridglea Addition’s houses have the widest spread, from the late 1930s to the 1950s and a few since.
The subdivisions inside the line
A listing’s legal description names the subdivision a house was recorded in.
| Subdivision | Houses | Median year built | Median lot |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Ridglea North Addition | Houses552 | Median year built1942 | Median lotabout 8,600 sq ft |
| The Z. Boaz Country Place Addition | Houses201 | Median year built1953 | Median lotabout 10,000 sq ft |
| The Ridglea Addition | Houses127 | Median year built1950 | Median lotabout 14,900 sq ft |
| The Myrtle B. Andrews Subdivision | Houses77 | Median year built1954 | Median lotabout 8,200 sq ft |
| Chamberlain Arlington Heights | Houses34 | Median year built1948 | Median lotabout 6,200 sq ft |
| Two small subdivisions | Houses5 | Median year built— | Median lot— |
The lots run about 9,000 square feet at the median. The Ridglea Addition’s are the largest, about 14,900 square feet at the median, and the Chamberlain Arlington Heights lots the smallest, about 6,200.
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The schools
Ridglea North’s houses are zoned to M. L. Phillips Elementary, Monnig Middle and Arlington Heights High.
Ridglea North is in Fort Worth ISD, and the district’s own School Finder gave the same three schools for every house we asked about. We asked at 416 of the 996 houses, every third one and every house near the edge of the line, using the district’s 2026–27 boundaries. The elementary and middle schools both sit inside the neighborhood.
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
M. L. Phillips Elementary
PK–5 · 81/100
Monnig Middle
6–8 · 61/100
Arlington Heights High
9–12 · 83/100
Remodel or add on
If you own a 1940s or 1950s house in Ridglea North, you can remodel it, add on, or build a second small building in the backyard.
If your house feels short on room, there are three ways to go.
Remodel what you have, opening up the plan inside the walls you already own.
Add on, with a primary suite at the back or a second story.
Or build a small separate building in the backyard, a guest house or a backyard office, and leave the house as it is.
Our real estate agents can tell you what each choice would do to the house’s value, and our design and construction teams can price all three. You decide with both numbers in front of you.
What you can build depends on the lot. Ridglea North’s houses sit in five different residential zoning districts, and each one sets its own rules for how close a house can come to the property line and how much of the lot it can cover. One house sits in the Camp Bowie district along the boulevard, which has its own design review. The city’s zoning map shows the district for any lot.
No part of Ridglea North lies in any of the city’s designated historic districts, and no house here carries a historic designation of its own. No FEMA flood zone touches the neighborhood, and neither does any of the city’s mapped flood risk areas.
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
Our work nearby
Two projects we finished near Ridglea North: a bath and kitchen to the south, and a backyard casita to the east.
Ridglea Hills Addition · Bath and kitchen remodel
Two baths and a kitchen, remodeled together
One bath has brass oval mirrors over a double vanity and an aqua tile tub; the other has a white-oak vanity and a walk-in shower.
Brokerage, design and construction
Arlington Heights · Backyard casita
A casita in the backyard of a bungalow
A detached board-and-batten building with a sleeping loft, a wet bar and built-in storage. Every square foot has a job.
Design and construction
The bath and kitchen are in the Ridglea Hills Addition, to the south, and the casita is in Arlington Heights, to the east. Neither is inside Ridglea North’s line. On the first, the owners used our brokerage for the home sale or purchase and our design and construction teams for the work. One call can cover buying a Ridglea North house, changing it and selling it, or any one of the three.
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
Ridglea North, Fort Worth, in nine questions.
Where is Ridglea North in Fort Worth?
Just north of Camp Bowie Boulevard on Fort Worth’s west side, in ZIP code 76116. The city’s line for the Ridglea North neighborhood association takes in about 400 acres, with Ridglea Hills to the south across Camp Bowie and Como to the east. Morris Berney Park is about 3 road miles from the Shops at Clearfork and about 6 from downtown.
Is Ridglea North the same as Ridglea Hills?
No. They are two of the five neighborhoods the city registers with Ridglea in the name, and Camp Bowie Boulevard runs between them: Ridglea North on the north side, Ridglea Hills on the south. Our Ridglea Hills guide compares all five.
When were the houses in Ridglea North built?
Mostly in the 1940s and early 1950s: 896 of the 996 houses carry a build year from 1940 to 1959, and 318 carry 1942 alone. Only 38 were built in 2000 or later.
Which schools are Ridglea North houses zoned to?
M. L. Phillips Elementary, Monnig Middle and Arlington Heights High, and the first two sit inside the neighborhood. We asked Fort Worth ISD’s School Finder about 416 houses here, using its 2026–27 boundaries, and every one came back with those three. Look up the exact address before you make an offer.
Is Ridglea North a historic district?
No. None of the city’s designated historic districts reaches it, and no house inside the line carries its own historic designation. Three sites inside it do, and none of them is a house.
Is Ridglea North in a flood zone?
No FEMA flood zone touches it, and neither do the city’s own mapped flood risk areas. Before you buy, still read the seller’s disclosure for anything about water or drainage.
Is there an HOA in Ridglea North?
Not one the city lists. The city registers Ridglea North as a neighborhood association, and none of the homeowners associations on the city’s map touches its line. Deed restrictions are a separate question: a lot’s title commitment lists them.
Is there a park in Ridglea North?
Yes. Morris Berney Park, a city neighborhood park of about four acres, sits near the middle of the neighborhood. The city’s parks records date it to 1926.
Can I add on to a house in Ridglea North?
The lot’s zoning sets how much you can add, and Ridglea North’s houses sit in five different residential districts. No historic district or individual designation covers a house here, so most additions need a standard city permit.
More on Ridglea North
Ridglea Hills
The neighborhood across Camp Bowie, and how the five Ridglea neighborhoods differ.
Go →Whole-home remodels in Fort Worth
How we open up an older house’s plan, and what a whole-home remodel 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 Ridglea North house, two numbers: what it would sell for, and what remodeling, adding on or building out back 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 subdivision, its zoning district 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 add on, check the lot’s zoning district before your option period closes. It sets how close to the property line you can build and 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 28, 2026. The neighborhood: the City of Fort Worth’s Neighborhood Organizations map layer, read on October 28, 2026. Houses, build years, lots and subdivisions: 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, with condominiums and townhomes left out, 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. Schools: Fort Worth ISD’s School Finder (2026–27 boundaries), asked at 416 houses; ratings from the Texas Education Agency’s 2026 accountability reports, read October 6 and October 28, 2026. The park: the city’s parks map layer. Distances: road miles along the shortest route OpenStreetMap’s routing service found from Morris Berney Park on October 28, 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 Ridglea North 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.