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1911 LETTERHEAD WICHITA FALLS TEXAS, THE ST JAMES HOTEL

1911 LETTERHEAD WICHITA FALLS TEXAS, THE ST JAMES HOTEL

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    Description

    1911 LETTERHEAD WICHITA FALLS TEXAS, THE ST JAMES HOTEL
    PART OF THE MAJOR EXPANSION IN NORTH AND WEST TEXAS WHEN THE DENVER CITY AND FT. WORTH RAILWAY CAME THROUGH IN THE
    1880S.
    BUILT IN 1893, TORN DOWN IN 1929
    3 STORIES
    ADDRESS: LASALLE & 7TH ST
    MANAGER; J E BUTT
    SOLD TO R H NORRIS HARDWARE, CHILDRESS TEXAS
    Joseph Alexander Kemp (1861-1930), a Wichita Falls merchant, and Morris Lasker (1840-1916), a native of Prussia who later served as state senator from Galveston, formed a partnership in 1892 for the construction of a hotel at this site. Built by Myles O'Reilly, the three-story St. James Hotel was completed one year later and became the center of area social events. Guests were attracted by the good food and by the music of a hotel orchestra. Business began to decline as new hotels opened in the area and in 1929 the building was demolished.
    The Fort Worth and Denver Railway (reporting mark FWD), nicknamed "the Denver Road," was a Class I American railroad company that operated in the northern part of Texas from 1881 to 1982, and had a profound influence on the early settlement and economic development of the region.
    The Fort Worth and Denver City Railway Company (FW&DC) was chartered by the Texas legislature on May 26, 1873. The company would later change its name to the Fort Worth and Denver Railway Company (FW&D) on August 7, 1951.[1]
    The main line of the railroad ran from Fort Worth through Wichita Falls, Childress, Amarillo, and Dalhart, to Texline, where it connected with the rails of parent company Colorado and Southern Railway, both of which became subsidiaries of the Burlington Route in 1908.
    Beginning construction at Hodge Junction, just north of Fort Worth, on November 27, 1881, by September 1882 Dodge had completed 110 miles (180 km) of track to Wichita Falls, Texas. By 1885 the line reached Harrold; by 1886, Chillicothe; by 1887 Clarendon and Amarillo; and by 1888 Texline on the New Mexico border. Continuing into the New Mexico Territory the FW&DC finally linked with the D&NO where the railheads met at Union Park, near present-day Folsom, New Mexico, 528 miles (850 km) from Fort Worth, on March 14, 1888.
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