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Longview, United States: Conrad Hilton purchased the Gregg Hotel in 1936, naming it the Longview Hilton, until he sold it to Tom Young & Associates in 1947. Louisville, United States: The Seelbach Hilton Louisville is designed after the French Renaissance style and became an inspiration for a hotel in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.
The former Hilton Hotels Corporation headquarters in Beverly Hills, California. In 1953, Hilton opened its first hotel in Europe, the Castellana Hilton in Madrid, Spain. [30] The Hotels Statler Company was acquired in 1954 for $111 million in what was then the world's most expensive real estate transaction. [31]
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).
Hotel Andaluz is a historic high-rise hotel in Downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico. It opened in 1939 as the Hilton Hotel, part of the Hilton Hotels chain. After operating under various names since the 1970s, the hotel was renovated and reopened under its current name in 2009. In 2019 it joined the Curio Collection by Hilton brand.
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.
The hotel's history dates back more than 50 years ago when it was a product of Wilmington's $7 million Waterfront Urban Renewal Project. From Timme Plaza to the Hilton to the Ballast, downtown ...
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.
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