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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 ]
Hilton started buying more hotels. By 1924, he built a new hotel in Dallas, the fourteen-story Dallas Hilton, which he completed for more than $1.3 million (or $23.3 million in 2024 dollars).
In 1957, the firm expanded into the hotel industry by opening the first Marriott hotel, the Marriott Motor Hotel, in Arlington County, Virginia. In 1964, Hot Shoppes, Inc. was renamed Marriott-Hot Shoppes, Inc. [7] The company became Marriott Corporation in 1967. In 1967, Marriott acquired the Big Boy family restaurants chain from Bob Wian. [8] [9]
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.
In 1999, after CP Hotels acquired the Fairmont brand, six CP properties rebranded to supplement the existing 24 Delta ones, and the Delta chain became a wholly-owned subsidiary of CP Hotel's two-thirds-owned Fairmont Hotels and Resorts. [13] In terms of classification, Fairmont was four-star and Delta was a three-star.
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 ...
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.
A recreation of a typical Mobley Hotel room in the 1920s. In 1919, Conrad Hilton purchased the hotel for $40,000, the first hotel he ever purchased. Hilton emphasized minimum cost and maximum comfort, a philosophy he summed up with the word "minimax." In 1929, Hilton sold the hotel. During the Depression, the hotel fell into disrepair.