{"nrhp_refnum":"82004518","name":"Baker Hotel","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"200 E. Hubbard St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Mineral Wells","county":"Palo Pinto County","state":"TX","lat":32.80974940200008,"lon":-98.10040340599994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1982-06-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A thirteen-story, 180-foot, 450-room hotel of reinforced concrete with yellow brick facing, at 200 East Hubbard Street in Mineral Wells, Texas, built in 1929 and designed by Wyatt C. Hedrick.","why_significant":"The nomination argues that the hotel was the social and community focal point of Mineral Wells, a spa town of about 6,000 people, hosting entertainers, political figures and conventions. It is also presented as an unusual Spanish Colonial Revival high-rise for a town of that scale, and as a major achievement for the late 1920s.","narrative":"Rising 180 feet above the low skyline of Mineral Wells, Texas, this thirteen-story hotel opened in November 1929 with 450 rooms. Designed by Fort Worth architect Wyatt C. Hedrick and built of reinforced concrete faced in yellow brick, it follows a Spanish Colonial Revival design, with arcaded ground-level loggias, tile roofs, a rooftop ballroom called the Cloud Room and a bell tower. It was modeled on Hedrick's Arlington Hotel in Hot Springs, Arkansas. T. B. Baker, a leading Texas hotelier, built it after civic leaders sought a replacement for an earlier hotel lost to fire. Cost was $1.25 million. The hotel served a spa town of about 6,000 people, offering a large meeting capacity, a swimming pool and dancing areas. Big-band musicians, politicians and other prominent guests passed through, and it hosted state political conventions in the 1950s. It closed in 1963 after 34 years of service, and the town felt the loss sharply. The building is listed for its architecture and its role in community life.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":"Wyatt C. Hedrick, architect; Inge & Burger, Inc., builder","architectural_style":"Spanish Colonial Revival, Commercial Highrise","criteria":[],"status_note":"Described as vacant or unoccupied, in good overall condition although altered, and closed since 1963 apart from a brief reopening in the 1960s. The owners state an intent to rehabilitate it.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:18.674638-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/48/9731/40973148/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/82004518.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82004518/9749affcad-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/82004518/9749affcad-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Renelibrary","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bakerhotel3.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:Bakerhotel3.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973148","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_Hotel_(Mineral_Wells,_Texas)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4849156"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/palo-pinto-county/baker-hotel-82004518/"}