{"nrhp_refnum":"79002920","name":"Hotel McCartney","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"State Line Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Texarkana","county":"Bowie County","state":"TX","lat":33.42045490300006,"lon":-94.04326994099995,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-09-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Transportation","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A ten-story reinforced concrete and brick hotel in the 100 block of State Line Avenue, Texarkana, Bowie County, Texas, built in 1929 and designed by Houston architect Joseph Finger.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the hotel as the tallest building in Texarkana and a focal point of its skyline, and as a reminder of the city's role as a major southwest railway center. It faces Union Station Terminal and has related architecture. It is a good example of early 20th century commercial style with outstanding Art Deco interiors.","narrative":"Rising ten stories in the 100 block of State Line Avenue in Texarkana, the McCartney Hotel was built in 1929 to designs by Houston architect Joseph Finger. It replaced the three-story Cosmopolitan Hotel, razed by owner W.A. McCartney, Sr., on the first town lot sold in the city. The reinforced concrete structure, faced with pre-cast concrete and brick, follows a Chicago School pattern of a two-story base, plain shaft and decorated top floor. Its triple-arched entrance mirrors that of Union Station Terminal across the street. Inside, the lobby and mezzanine feature Art Deco detail, including a curved marble staircase, marble wainscoting, ornate cornice molding and a skylight. The hotel reflects Texarkana's importance as a railway center. As passenger rail declined and highway travel grew, the hotel closed in the early 1970s and later served as a movie set and storage space. Plans call for converting it to retail and office use. It remains the city's tallest building.","period_of_significance":"1929","architect_builder":"Joseph Finger of Houston, Texas","architectural_style":"Early 20th century commercial style (Chicago School base, shaft and cornice arrangement) with Art Deco interiors","criteria":[],"status_note":"The hotel closed in the early 1970s, was used as a movie set in 1976, then sold and used for storage. It has been zoned historic by the city, and new owners plan to renovate it for retail and office space.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:19.196847-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/42/9713/40971342/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/79002920.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002920/7298f2a136-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002920/7298f2a136-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"DisClever","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hotel_McCartney_-_No_Trespassing_Postage.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">DisClever</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hotel_McCartney_-_No_Trespassing_Postage.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40971342","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107321571"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/bowie-county/hotel-mccartney-79002920/"}