By Greta|2019-07-17T23:30:25+00:00July 17th, 2019|architecture, art, brothel, castle, cemeteries, Chicago world's fair, Columbian Exposition, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, Men, Murders, oak cliff, rail lines, South Dallas, Texans, train history, trains, Women|
Famous Serial Killer with Links to Dallas Herman Mudgett, aka H.H. Holmes, had been killing women in his ‘murder’ hotel in the shadows [...]
By Greta|2019-07-09T23:49:29+00:00July 9th, 2019|architecture, art, castle, Chicago world's fair, Columbian Exposition, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, Design, Men, South Dallas, Texans, trains, Women|
Famous Serial Killer with Ties to Dallas Minnie Williams, Dallas-area heiress, travels to Chicago during the early months of 1893. She is [...]
By Greta|2019-07-01T16:24:42+00:00July 1st, 2019|architecture, art, castle, Chicago world's fair, colorado, Columbian Exposition, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, Men, Murders, oak cliff, South Dallas, trains, Women|
Famous Serial Killer with Ties to Dallas Minnie Williams, a local Dallas victim of the serial killer Herman Mudgett/H.H.Holmes, completed her Boston musical [...]
By Greta|2019-06-07T01:12:14+00:00June 7th, 2019|adolphus, architecture, art, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, department stores, Design, innovations, rail lines, train history, trains|
Busch-Kirby Building 1509 Main Street, Dallas Originally built by Adolphus Busch as a 17-story office and retail space (it has more recently been [...]
By Greta|2019-06-05T16:27:58+00:00June 5th, 2019|adolphus, architecture, art, beer, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, department stores, Design, rail lines, train history, trains, West End|
I got a little flakey with posting there for a while, so your reward is this magnificent Dallas Building! It has a few [...]
By Greta|2019-03-21T01:46:25+00:00March 21st, 2019|adolphus, architecture, art, beer, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, Men|
Our last post was concerned with a very odd speech given on opening day in relation to Thomas Field, the original idea-man behind [...]
By Greta|2019-03-18T22:51:25+00:00March 18th, 2019|adolphus, architecture, art, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, Design, Men, West End|
The Opening of the Oriental Hotel – A most unusual speech The Oriental Hotel was a much anticipated, super swanky hotel in (what [...]
By Greta|2019-03-14T23:11:49+00:00March 14th, 2019|adolphus, architecture, art, beer, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, Design, Men, Texans, West End|
Thomas Field’s dream, the Oriental Hotel, opened October 9th, 1893. The night before opening day, every single room in the building, from cellar [...]
By Greta|2019-03-11T17:02:03+00:00March 11th, 2019|adolphus, architecture, art, beer, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Design, West End|
Adolphus Busch, investor in the Oriental Hotel As mentioned in our last post, one of Adolphus Busch’s first investments in Dallas was the [...]
By Greta|2019-03-06T19:28:49+00:00March 6th, 2019|adolphus, architecture, art, beer, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Design, Texans, West End|
Adolphus Busch, Honorary Dallasite: the Investor Chronicles So, what did Adolphus do with all of his bags of money made from his un-skunked, [...]
