{"nrhp_refnum":"85003215","name":"Schneider Hotel","other_names":["Pampa Hotel"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"120 S. Russell","address_restricted":false,"city":"Pampa","county":"Gray County","state":"TX","lat":35.53444874100006,"lon":-100.96221150299999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1985-12-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Commerce","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A multistory buff-brick hotel at 120 South Russell in downtown Pampa, Gray County, Texas, built in 1927 and designed by architect M.C. Parker with Charles H. Sharp as contractor.","why_significant":"The hotel is one of several downtown buildings marking Pampa's first era of growth during the Panhandle oil boom of the late 1920s, and it anchors the south end of \"Million Dollar Row.\" As one of the largest private ventures in Pampa in the 1920s, it served as the city's social center and an economic hub for the Gray County oil industry. It remains a well-known local landmark.","narrative":"Rising five stories beside the Santa Fe tracks in downtown Pampa, the Schneider Hotel opened in 1927 with more than 100 rooms. Alex Schneider, who had run a smaller frame hotel on the site since 1912, financed construction through a corporation he formed. M.C. Parker designed the rough-textured buff-brick building, which has dark-brick trim, wrought-iron window grilles, and arcaded Mission Revival porches on its east and west faces. Charles H. Sharp was the contractor. The hotel was completed as Gray County's oil boom took off, and Pampa grew from 987 residents in 1920 to 10,470 in 1930. It became a gathering place for oil executives, land men and drillers, and for dances, civic events and traveling entertainers. Business declined after World War II, and by the early 1980s the building stood vacant. It anchors \"Million Dollar Row\" with the city hall, fire department, Combs-Worley Building and county courthouse, and it remains a recognized local landmark.","period_of_significance":"1900-","architect_builder":"M.C. Parker, Architect; Charles H. Sharp, Contractor","architectural_style":"Spanish Colonial Revival influences, with Mission Revival porch","criteria":[],"status_note":"Vacant and unoccupied at the time of nomination; the building was reported in generally good condition, and the owner planned to convert the 102 hotel rooms to apartments for the elderly.","vacant_flag":true,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:21.568934-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/59/9721/40972159/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/85003215.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85003215/d705d8c172-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/85003215/d705d8c172-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"Jeffrey Beall","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schneider_Hotel.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Jeffrey Beall</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schneider_Hotel.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40972159","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q107320715"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/gray-county/schneider-hotel-85003215/"}