First Hilton Hotel - Cisco, TX
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WalksfarTX
N 32° 23.499 W 098° 58.872
14S E 501768 N 3583848
Eager travelers should know that they can no longer stay in the world's first Hilton hotel. It was restored by the Hilton Foundation and turned into the Cisco, Texas, Chamber of Commerce office and community center.
Waymark Code: WMPZHY
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 11/17/2015
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From Roadside America website:Legend has it that Conrad Hilton, who was in Cisco to buy a local bank, simply bought the Mobley Hotel when he couldn't get a room in town.
But the more likely story is that he bought it because he saw how much money it was making by renting its rooms to oil field workers in eight-hour shifts (Hotels, thankfully, do not follow that practice with families on vacation).
Hilton abandoned thoughts of a career in banking and instead began buying hotels -- creating yet another tourist attraction in nearby Abilene, which is the home of the former Windsor Hotel, "the first hotel to bear Conrad Hilton's name."