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Constructed from 1920 to 1921 as the Hotel Texas, it was designed by Sanguinet & Staats and Mauran, Russell, & Crowell, with Westlake Construction Co. as the contractor. A two-story addition was constructed to the North in 1963, featuring a bank on the ground floor and a new 25,000 sq ft ballroom on the second level. [ 3 ]
The Rice, formerly the Rice Hotel, is an historic building at 909 Texas Avenue in Downtown Houston, Texas, United States. The current building is the third to occupy the site. The current building is the third to occupy the site.
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The Gunter Hotel opened on November 20, 1909, on the site of the earlier Mahncke Hotel. [3] [4] There had been a hotel or inn on the same site since 1837. [5]The eight-story, 301-room hotel was built by the San Antonio Hotel Company and named for Jot Gunter, a local rancher and real estate developer who was one of its financiers.
The Dallas Hilton, constructed as the Hilton Hotel and today operating as the Hotel Indigo Dallas Downtown, is a historic hotel opened in 1925, located at the corner of Main Street and S. Harwood Street in downtown Dallas, Texas (United States). The hotel is a contributing property in the Harwood Street Historic District and Main Street District.
At one point in the 1980s, The University of Texas owned the property and a hotel-management group ran the hotel, but it proved unprofitable and closed. [ 4 ] [ 7 ] The Hotel eventually went up for auction in 1987, at which a subsidiary of Texaco had the winning bid of $1.39 million for the property, which was located across the street of their ...
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The day started with tours of the hotel from 11:30 AM to 5:30 PM and concluded that night with a ball, [31] and a wedding hosted within the hotel, [32] which were broadcast on the radio station KGKL. [ 33 ] [ 34 ] Guests included Hilton, Hail, Houston Harte , the owner of the San Angelo Standard-Times , and W. H. Holcombe, the mayor of San ...