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This is a list of motels.A motel is lodging designed for motorists, and usually has a parking area for motor vehicles. Entering dictionaries after World War II, the word motel, coined in 1925 as a portmanteau of motor and hotel or motorists' hotel, referred initially to a type of hotel consisting of a single building of connected rooms whose doors faced a parking lot and, in some circumstances ...
Menard is located along the banks of the San Saba River at the junction of U.S. Highways 83 and 190, approximately 140 miles northwest of Austin and San Antonio in central Menard County. [ 5 ] According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 2.1 square miles (5.4 km 2 ), all land.
The Alamo Plaza Hotel Courts brand was the first motel chain in the United States, [1] [2] founded by Edgar Lee Torrance in Waco, Texas, in 1929. By 1955, there were more than twenty Alamo Plazas across the southeastern U.S., most controlled by a loosely knit group of a half-dozen investors and operating using common branding or architecture.
Unincorporated communities in Menard County, Texas (6 P) This page was last edited on 30 March 2013, at 05:41 (UTC). Text is ...
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Menard County is a county located on the Edwards Plateau in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 1,962. [1] The county seat is Menard. [2] The county was created in 1858 and later organized in 1871. [3] It is named for Michel Branamour Menard, the founder of Galveston, Texas. [4]
The Hotel Beaumont was built in 1922, at a cost of $1 million, by a group of 277 investors. The 11-story hotel had 250 rooms and two ballrooms, the Rose Room, and the Sky Room on the roof. The building was used as a retirement community from 1977–2011.
The Baker Hotel hosted the Texas Republican Party conventions in 1952 and 1955, and the Texas Democratic Party held their convention at the Baker in 1954. Aside from these successes, business declined steadily through the 1950s and the proverbial final nail was driven by Earl Baker himself when he announced that he would be closing the hotel ...