H.H. Holmes in Dallas, Part VII

By |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 [...]

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H.H. Holmes in Dallas, Part VI

By |2019-07-10T17:38:11+00:00July 10th, 2019|architecture, castle, Chicago world's fair, Columbian Exposition, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, Design, Men, Murders, oak cliff, rail lines, Texans, train history, trains, Women|

Famous Serial Killer with Ties to Dallas Who is this Herman Mudgett/H.H. Holmes character?  How is he luring young women all the way [...]

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H. H. Holmes and Dallas, Part V

By |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 [...]

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H.H. Holmes in Dallas, Part IV

By |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 [...]

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H.H. Holmes and Dallas, part III

By |2019-06-29T15:41:14+00:00June 29th, 2019|architecture, castle, Chicago world's fair, Columbian Exposition, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, Men, Murders, oak cliff, Women|

Famous Serial Killer with Ties to Dallas Minnie and Nannie Williams, sisters raised mostly in the Dallas area, will become two of Herman [...]

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H.H. Holmes and Dallas, part II

By |2019-06-27T18:33:51+00:00June 27th, 2019|architecture, Carnival, castle, Chicago world's fair, Columbian Exposition, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, Men, Murders, oak cliff, Texans, West End, Women|

Devil in the White City has been a pet project of Leonardo DiCaprio for a while now.  I will let you judge if [...]

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H.H. Holmes and Dallas, part I

By |2019-06-26T21:06:32+00:00June 26th, 2019|architecture, Carnival, Chicago world's fair, Columbian Exposition, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, graves, Men, Murders, oak cliff, South Dallas, Women|

Famous Serial Killer with Links to Dallas Did you know that Devil in the White City is supposed to be made in to [...]

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Oriental Hotel – Dead or Alive?

By |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 [...]

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Oriental Hotel – Opening Day Oddness

By |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 [...]

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The Opening of the Oriental Hotel

By |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 [...]

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