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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Honorary Dallasite – the Innovator

By |2019-03-02T19:42:12+00:00March 2nd, 2019|adolphus, beer, Dallas History, Dallas People, historic food, Immigrants, innovations, Men, rail lines, Texans, train history, trains, Women|

Adolphus Busch, Honorary Dallasite So, life happened and I didn’t post for a while. But you know what makes life better?  BEER. Do [...]

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Honorary Dallasite – All the babies edition

By |2019-02-18T16:34:40+00:00February 18th, 2019|adolphus, architecture, beer, Children's Toys, Civil War, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Deaths, Design, graves, Immigrants, innovations, Men, Restoration, train history, trains, Women|

Adolphus Busch, honorary Dallasite and his powerhouse wife, continued. I didn’t want to be a bummer on Valentine’s day, so I only mentioned [...]

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Beer!

By |2019-02-06T22:49:07+00:00February 6th, 2019|adolphus, architecture, Chicago world's fair, Dallas Architecture, Dallas History, Dallas People, Design, historic food, Men, Style, Texas State Fair, train history, trains|

Let’s talk beer!  Yay, you say!  Would you love to hear about Lone Star or some other distinctly Texas beer?! Sorry, we are [...]

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