Where I Live: Berkeley Place A Mix Of Modest And Grand Homes To Make Community

Arlington TX

07 November, 2021

5:21 PM

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By The FWR Staff, Fort Worth Report November 6, 2021 Berkeley Place offers inner city living combining the best of urban life and a small-town atmosphere. Next year, both the Berkeley Place and Lily B. Clayton Elementary School, will celebrate centennial anniversaries. That makes it a good time to talk about why I love living here. The school is the flagship for the neighborhood. Families often choose Berkeley so that their children can go to "Sweet Lily B.," as we call it. The elementary school opened in 1922 as a four-room schoolhouse, and it was enlarged in 1934 with an addition designed for children. Exterior bas relief plaques and interior tiles depict nursery rhymes, and a fishpond in the kindergarten room still fascinates youngsters. Today, the school — with over 400 students — retains the warm personal atmosphere of an older school. Students learn in sunny classrooms, play in shaded courtyards and on inviting terraces, and strut their stuff in a wonderful auditorium with built-in wooden seats and tall, arched windows. Annexed by the city in 1922, Berkeley Place is convenient to downtown, within easy distance of the hospital district and the restaurants of Magnolia Avenue. It is adjacent to Forest Park and the Fort Worth Zoo, and TCU sits just another mile or two to the southwest. The official boundaries are Park Place to the north, the railroad tracks at Eighth Avenue to the east, Ward Parkway on the south, and Rockridge Terrace to the west. To read the full article, click here. Fort Worth Report is a nonpartisan, nonprofit news organization that produces factual, in-depth journalism about city and county government, schools, healthcare, business, and arts and culture in Tarrant County. Always free to read; subscribe to newsletters, read coverage or support our newsroom at fortworthreport.org.