The cash-strapped Fort Worth Star-Telegram has fired much of its staff in recent months, and now it has decided to sell its historic home at the northwest corner of Seventh and Taylor streets. So they are selling it. According to the paper, the paper is also “selling its four-story annex building, an adjacent parking lot and two other downtown parking lots.”

The four-story building was built in 1920 and designed by the Fort Worth architectural firm Sanguinet and Staats. Amon G. Carter, then the publisher, moved the newspaper into the building from offices at Eighth and Throckmorton streets.

The building was expanded in 1940 and 1947; the last major addition, built in 1967, was a four-story building north of the original building. A walkway between the buildings bridges Sixth Street. The combined facility totals about 184,000 square feet.

Is McClatchy now this kiss of death to otherwise interesting local papers.

[HT, McClatchy Watch.]