{"nrhp_refnum":"14000966","name":"Hotel Texas (Boundary Increase)","other_names":["Hotel Texas Annex"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"815 Main & 815 Commerce Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fort Worth","county":"Tarrant County","state":"TX","lat":32.75286900000003,"lon":-97.32863299999997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2014-11-26","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Exploration/Settlement"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Fourteen-story red brick hotel occupying a full city block at 815 Main Street in downtown Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, built in 1920 and designed by Sanguinet and Staats with associate architects from St. Louis.","why_significant":"The hotel is presented as an integral part of Fort Worth's skyline and a representative example of the skyscraper era of the early oil boom. Its blend of Georgian and Renaissance detailing on a Chicago School format is described as unusual but successful. It also anchored social and commercial life on Main Street, and President John F. Kennedy spent his last night there in 1963.","narrative":"Fourteen stories of red brick trimmed in white terra cotta rise over Main Street in Fort Worth, where the Hotel Texas has stood since 1920. A group of civic leaders formed the Citizens Hotel Company to build what they hoped would be the finest hotel in the South, replacing the earlier Worth Hotel. Sanguinet and Staats of Fort Worth designed it with associate architects from St. Louis, combining Georgian and Renaissance ornament on a Chicago School base, shaft and cornice arrangement. Details include a terra cotta architrave with Texas Longhorn images and a decorated top floor. The hotel opened in 1921, weathered the Depression, and was renovated several times. A ballroom wing was added in 1961, and a separate annex in 1967 lies outside the nominated area. President John F. Kennedy stayed here on November 21, 1963. The property was recognized as a landmark of Fort Worth's skyscraper era and its oil-boom growth.","period_of_significance":"1900- (specific date 1920)","architect_builder":"Sanguinet and Staats, Architects; Mavran, Russell, and Clowell, Associate Architects, St. Louis, Missouri","architectural_style":"Chicago School format with Renaissance and Georgian detailing (Beaux Arts classicism noted)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described in good condition but altered over time; at the time of the form it had been sold and a renovation was planned to reopen it as the Fort Worth Hyatt Regency. The 1967 annex is excluded.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:24.139993-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/56/9734/40973456/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/79003011.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/14000966/60df758505-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/14000966/60df758505-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hotel_Texas.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Renelibrary</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hotel_Texas.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":null,"wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Texas","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12060135"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/tarrant-county/hotel-texas-boundary-increase-14000966/"}