{"nrhp_refnum":"79002929","name":"Clark Hotel","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"112 Broadway St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Van Horn","county":"Culberson County","state":"TX","lat":31.040141548000065,"lon":-104.83167401399999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1979-07-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Politics/Government"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A two-story concrete block commercial building at 112 Broadway in Van Horn, Culberson County, Texas, built in stages between 1901 and 1929 and converted to a hotel in 1918.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it the oldest existing structure in Van Horn and Culberson County and the first substantial commercial building in town. It served as a commercial, social and judicial center, housing offices, an opera house, a saloon and the first county court sessions. It is considered locally significant for commerce and social history, not for architecture.","narrative":"Built in stages between 1901 and 1929 from concrete blocks made on the site, this two-story building at 112 Broadway is the oldest surviving structure in Van Horn and Culberson County. It began as a small office building and was enlarged in 1905-06 by the Cox brothers to hold offices, an opera house, a dance hall and lodge rooms upstairs, with a saloon, pool hall, drug store and newspaper office below. When Culberson County was organized in 1911, county officials used part of it as a courthouse, and the first district court met in the opera house. Fred Clark, Sr. converted it to a hotel in 1918, and it operated as one until the late 1960s. The arrival of U.S. Highway 80 led to the front and rear facades being reversed. A French mahogany bar from 1876 remains inside. The post office occupies part of the building, and a museum is planned.","period_of_significance":"1901-1929","architect_builder":"unknown","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Fair condition, with deterioration mainly in the roof and second floor; the post office occupies part of the building and the historical society plans to convert space to a museum.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:18.721614-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/23/9716/40971623/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/79002929.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002929/1ce76929d1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/79002929/1ce76929d1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 4.0","author":"Larry D. Moore","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clark_hotel_vanhorn_2009.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Larry D. Moore</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clark_hotel_vanhorn_2009.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40971623","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107323018"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/culberson-county/clark-hotel-79002929/"}