Texas Spring Palace

The building's exterior was liberally decorated with crop art made from a wide variety of Texas agricultural products, including wheat, corn, millet, cotton, grasses, mosses, cacti, coal, animal hides, seashells, cattle horns and skulls, and even a taxidermy steer.

[3] Al Hayne, a 40-year-old Fort Worth civil engineer originally from London, England died of injuries he sustained while saving women and children from the massive fire.

Although Fort Worth leaders fully intended to rebuild the Texas Spring Palace, plans were eventually scrapped after a decade of struggling to get the project off the ground.

A painting of the building by a San Antonio artist is on view in the Tarrant County Courthouse,[8] and Al Hayne's tombstone can be seen at Oakwood Cemetery just north of downtown Fort Worth.

It now features a bronze bust of Hayne by Fort Worth artist Evaline Sellors atop a base of stone quarried in nearby Granbury, Texas.

[6] The monument is now located in a small park called the Haynes Memorial Triangle at the intersection of Lancaster Avenue and Main Street at the south end of downtown Fort Worth, close to the former site of the Texas Spring Palace.