The Roaring ’20s were in full swing in the booming area known as Westover Hills—a tiny town near Fort Worth, TX—and this stately mansion was leading the way.
Among the first of many grand estates built in the area, Westover Manor was designed by famed architect du jour Victor Marr Curtis in the late 1920s when Fort Worth oil and cattle barons were living large and building lavish homes to prove it.
But none was immune to the Great Depression that was about to hit the country. The first owner was oil tycoon and civic supporter John E. Farrell, who purchased it in 1930 for $50,000—a hefty sum at the time…