H.H. Holmes in DFW, Part XVI

By |2019-08-15T16:30:17+00:00August 15th, 2019|architecture, Chicago world's fair, Columbian Exposition, Dallas History, Deaths, fort worth, jail, Men, Texans|

Photo 1 – Moyamensing Prison when it was in use around 1904 Photo credit – Hidden City Philadelphia website Photo 2 – rampart [...]

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H.H. Holmes in DFW, Part XIII

By |2019-08-07T17:40:52+00:00August 7th, 2019|architecture, Chicago world's fair, Columbian Exposition, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, fort worth, jail, Men, oak cliff, st. louis, Texans, Women|

Image:  A life insurance policy dating to 1893 – it is unrelated to serial killer H H Holmes himself, but gives us an [...]

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H.H. Holmes in DFW, part XII

By |2019-08-02T02:57:06+00:00August 2nd, 2019|architecture, Chicago world's fair, Columbian Exposition, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, Design, fort worth, jail, Men, Murders, rail lines, st. louis, Texans, train history, trains, Women|

Our famous serial killer, H.H. Holmes has hightailed it out of Fort Worth, leaving the workers building his new hotel unpaid. He has [...]

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H.H. Holmes in Dallas, Part XI

By |2019-07-31T01:16:13+00:00July 31st, 2019|architecture, castle, cemeteries, Chicago world's fair, Columbian Exposition, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, Design, fort worth, graves, Men, Murders, oak cliff, train history, trains, Women|

After killing Minnie and her sister Nannie Williams in the Chicagoland area in 1893/94, H. H. Holmes quickly moved to claim his ill-gotten [...]

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H.H. Holmes in Dallas, Part X

By |2019-07-28T19:18:35+00:00July 28th, 2019|architecture, Chicago world's fair, Columbian Exposition, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, fort worth, graves, Men, oak cliff, South Dallas, Texans, train history, Women|

Image: 705 N Marsalis Street, the (Charles) Betterton house, has been standing since 1888.  It is in this area of the DFW metroplex [...]

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