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The Shamrock was a hotel constructed between 1946 and 1949 by wildcatter Glenn McCarthy southwest of downtown Houston, Texas next to the Texas Medical Center.It was the largest hotel built in the United States during the 1940s. [1]
Kavanagh's Irish Pub – The Wire; The Kebab & Calculator – The Young Ones (1982) Kelcy's – All in the Family (1971–1979) Kennedy's – Scarlett; The King and Queen Tavern – The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion; The King's Head – The World's End (film) (2013): The tenth of 12 pubs on the "golden mile" pub crawl; The Kit Kat Klub – Cabaret
The hotel featured four restaurants, a banquet room, a small concert hall, and a rooftop deck. The construction cost was about $3.5 million, equivalent to $64,000,000 in 2016. [13] In the first five years, the new Rice Hotel was losing money, but the Houston Hotel Association was able to repay its loans. Jesse Jones continued improving the ...
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The first Wetherspoons pub in the Republic of Ireland, The Three Tun Tavern, opened in Blackrock, County Dublin, in 2014. Another opened in Cork in 2015. [ 35 ] [ 36 ] [ 37 ] The Three Tun Tavern closed in January 2022 after it was bought by a consortium of former and current Irish rugby players, including Rob Kearney and Jamie Heaslip.
The hotel was included in Condé Nast Traveler magazine's list of the world's Top 100 new hotels in May 2004. [4] Its success led the group to open Hotel Valencia Santana Row in San Jose, California. [when?] [citation needed] In 2009, Hotel Sorella CityCentre opened in Houston in the mixed-use urban CityCentre development.
The hotel offers a private car within downtown [4] and a PediaCab within a short distance. Taxi service is available. The hotel is adjacent to METRORail's Preston Station which provides light rail service to the Houston Museum District, the Texas Medical Center, Rice University, Hermann Park, the Texas Medical Center, NRG Center and NRG Stadium.
A number of Houston's earliest homes are now located in Sam Houston Park, including the Kellum-Noble House, which was built in 1847 and is Houston's oldest brick dwelling. [77] During the late 1930s and early 1940s, the Kellum-Noble House served as a public office for the City of Houston's Park Department, and is listed in the National Register ...