1012 North Main Street, Fort Worth, Texas
About this story
Transform 1012 is converting Fort Worth’s former Ku Klux Klan Klavern No. 101 auditorium into the Fred Rouse Center for Arts and Community Healing. Named for a Black Fort Worth resident lynched in 1921, the center is planned as a cultural and civic hub with performance and rehearsal areas, exhibitions addressing civil rights and social justice, arts training, meeting rooms, a community makerspace and tool library, youth services, an outdoor marketplace and agriculture component, and affordable live-work space. Studio Barnes and ch_studio are leading the design through a community-informed process intended to shift the building from enclosure and intimidation toward openness, connection, light, and collective ownership.
Status and timeline
The approximately 35,000-square-foot project is in community-informed design and preconstruction. Transform 1012 is continuing public design conversations in 2026, with construction expected to advance by 2027 according to local district reporting.
Design highlights
Reparative adaptive reuse; movement from dark and enclosed spaces toward brighter, open rooms; physical and symbolic connections across the building; community-informed material and program decisions; retention and reinterpretation of a difficult historic structure.
