The Müuse Atlas / United States / Texas / Fort Worth

Filming in Downtown Fort Worth, Fort Worth

A seven storey wedge shaped office building meets red brick storefronts and glass office towers around a pedestrian square.

Main Street paved in red brick running south from General Worth Square into Sundance Square, cream and brick office towers lining both sides, cars parked along the curbs under event banners.

What Downtown Fort Worth looks like

runs south from the through Sundance Square, paved in red brick between the curbs, with cars still parked along both sides under banners strung from the lampposts. Office towers rise close behind two- and three-storey storefronts, their ground floors fitted with restaurants and shops under the original cornices.

At Houston and West Ninth streets the comes to a narrow brick point, seven storeys with arched window bays and carved panther heads above the second floor, built in 1907. The holds a shopfront corner on West Eighth Street from about 1905, two storeys of grey brick dwarfed now by the parking garage beside it.

Taller buildings from the 1920s stand over these older blocks. The cream brick tapers to a narrow top on West Seventh Street, and the W.T. Waggoner Building on Houston Street has an iron fire escape down its long side. Glass office towers from the 1980s fill the gaps between them, including Burnett Plaza, forty storeys at its tallest point.

still occupies its black storefront on Throckmorton Street, a vertical sign reading Books above the door, a parking structure rising directly behind it. is a lawn framed by live oak trees at the courthouse end of Main Street. The backs of office towers show through the branches.

Shot in Downtown Fort Worth

Logan's Run used the Water Gardens' Active Pool as the route back into its domed city in 1975, the year after the park opened. Landman and Never Goin' Back have both filmed on downtown's own streets since, inside the Worthington Hotel and at the Central Station platform.

Logan's Run, 1976

Played the Active Pool's terraces, the domed city's return tunnels, the future

The Water Gardens' Active Pool, water cascading down concrete terraces toward a sunken pool, downtown office towers visible above the trees beyond the park wall.

The production filmed in the Active Pool in July 1975, a year after the Water Gardens opened, using its stepped terraces as the way back into the domed city. Logan and Jessica swim down through the pool to re-enter the city after meeting an old man outside it. Street View

Landman

The Renaissance Worthington Hotel entrance and its glass skybridge over the street, seen from a car at the corner of Main Street and West Second Street, a strip of dashboard visible at the bottom of the frame.

The Paramount+ series Landman filmed its second season at the Worthington Hotel, with West First Street closed between Main and Houston for the shoot. The hotel's entrance canopy and covered skybridge face the corner of Main and West Second streets. Street View

Never Goin' Back, 2018

A TRE commuter train at Fort Worth Central Station's covered platform, the downtown skyline including Frost Tower and the T&P Station clock tower visible beyond the tracks.

Never Goin' Back (2018) used a bus stop at Fort Worth Central Station for a scene. The transit hub shares one set of platforms between the TRE commuter line, Amtrak and city buses. The same production also used the Tarrant County Courthouse steps, a few blocks north. Street View

What Downtown Fort Worth can double for

Downtown Culver City in Culver City, California

The Culver Hotel and the Washington Building are wedge shaped Beaux Arts buildings facing each other across a corner intersection, the same shape the Flatiron Building makes at Houston and West Ninth streets. Both went up in the 1920s, close to downtown Fort Worth's own 1907 to 1930s core. Culver City's corner is wider and shows more lane markings in a full street shot. The Culver Hotel runs six storeys against Fort Worth's seven, but the Washington Building across the intersection is only two, so a wide shot has to favor the Culver Hotel's own corner to hold the match. Try searching wedge shaped corner building now.

Downtown Tulsa in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Tulsa's oil boom left a cluster of Art Deco office towers from the same stretch of years as Fort Worth's own 1920s skyline, the Philtower and the Philcade among them, linked by an underground tunnel the same way parts of downtown Fort Worth are. The terra cotta trim and narrow upper floors read close to the W.T. Waggoner Building. Tulsa's towers lean further into zigzag Art Deco ornament than Fort Worth's plainer limestone trim, so a wide shot of the skyline reads more decorated than this one does. Try searching art deco office tower now.

Downtown Seattle in Seattle, Washington

The Times Square Building sits on a triangular block between Fifth Avenue, Olive Way and Stewart Street, the same shape the Flatiron Building makes at its own triangular lot. Both are five to seven storey buildings in a Renaissance influenced style, Seattle's finished in 1916 and Fort Worth's in 1907. Seattle's building is five storeys against Fort Worth's seven, so a wider shot gives away the height difference. Its terracotta trim is also lighter in colour. Try searching triangular block flatiron building now.