The Toland House Hotel - Main Street Historic District - Chappell Hill, TX
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Constructed in 1912, the Toland House Hotel in the history-rich town of Chappell Hill, TX was built by the widow of an affluent local doctor. It was a hostelry until 1831 (and briefly again in 1980-83), and is currently used as a private residence.
Waymark Code: WMN6D1
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 01/03/2015
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Chappell Hill's NRHP Main Street Historic District is an area covering 36 buildings, most of them built between 1850 and 1915 and reflecting the many variations in architectural style within that period in history. For more information on this particular Historic District, please see the following waymark: (
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The founding of the town of Chappell Hill is contributed to Mary Hargrove Haller who purchased a 100-acre site in this part of Texas on February 2, 1847 and subsequently commissioned a survey and the plotting of town lots. Just three years later, Mary Haller and her husband Jacob began building a two-story frame house now known as the "Stagecoach Inn" at the northwest corner of the center of that new town.
The Toland House Hotel, located a solid two blocks South of the "Stagecoach Inn", was built in 1912 and is thus considered to be a "latter era" structure within the overall 1850-1915 time period. It was built by Mary Hale Toland, the second wife and widow of
Dr. Albert_Wallis_Toland (an affluent local medical doctor) right alongside her husband's old doctor's office. Along with the Stagecoach Inn, this place ran as one of only two hostels in town until Mary's death in 1931. The building is currently used as a private residence.
Per the
Texas Historical Commission Atlas records, the building includes the following features:
"Constructed by J. W. Heartfield in 1912, this two story, L-shaped, Colonial Revival hotel is characterized by its encircling front porch supported by slightly taped Doric columns. Single entrance door with louvered wooden screen door. Clapboard siding with corner boards and wood shingle hipped roof. Wooden-sash windows with operable shutters exhibit cornice window heads. Old wood- frame office building attached to rear as kitchen was Dr. O. L. Williams and (later) Dr. Toland's office. Building continued to operate as a hotel until Mary Toland's death in 1931. It then served as a private residence until it opened as a country inn in 1980. In 1983 it reverted back to a private residence."