LAST - Hotel Remaining From the Oil Boom Days- Panhandle, TX
Posted by: 
YoSam.
N 35° 20.595 W 101° 22.686
14S E 283883 N 3913704
Only Remaining, means the last one of its kind...Opened for the oil boom, and still going.
Waymark Code: WM1348Q
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 09/12/2020
Views: 7
County of Marker: Carson County
Location of Marker: 117 S. Broadway St., Panhandle
Marker Erected by: Texas Historical Commission
Date Marker Erected: 2002
Marker Text:
TEXAN HOTEL
Texan Hotel During the height of Carson County's oil boom in the 1920s, the major oil field supply houses headquartered in Panhandle, and lodging was in great demand. In 1926, Clark B. (d. 1946) and Margaret (d. 1967) Downs opened the Downs Hotel to help meet this need. It was renamed the Texan Hotel when the property was conveyed to J. H. Paul (d. 1960) in 1932. Later owners converted the Texan Hotel to apartments but continued to make a few rooms available for guests after World War II.
By the early 21st century, the Texan was the only hotel built in Panhandle during the oil boom years that remained in operation.
(2002)