Marlin Texas Hotel Wells postcard featuring Hotel Falls - built by Conrad Hilton 1929-1930.MARLIN TEXAS HOT WELLS
BUIE CLINIC
MARLIN SANITARIUM - BATH HOUSE
HOTEL FALLS
CONNECTED BY UNDERGROUND PASSAGE
6A-H156
Postmark: MARLIN JUN 13 10 PM 1948 TEXAS
Addressed to:
Mrs. H.G. Miller
2608 W.
Twenty Seventh St
Ft Worth 6 Tex.
Message:
Better come down
now at Marlin
taking baths
sure feeling lots
better hope you improving
Mrs. J.M. Stratton
Conrad Hilton built his eighth hotel - the Falls Hotel in Marlin, Texas. According to a plaque issued by the Texas State Historical Survey Committee in 1970, the Falls Hotel was an "Early Hilton Hotel built 1929-1930. After Conrad Hilton had initiated career that later made him foremost innkeeper in the world. A first venture in the boom town of Cisco brought a dream of Texas wearing a chain of Hilton hotels. Reality outran dreams. This was his eight hotel. Marker dedicated to Conrad N. Hilton (born in 1887) one of the great men of American's Southwestern frontier."
References:
Texas Escapes - Marlin, Texas
254 Texas Courthouses
Texas State Historical Association
Waco Tribune-Herald July 9, 2016
Emporis - Falls Hotel
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