Pegasus Found!
Our previous posts dealt with the (relatively) new Pegasus atop the Magnolia Hotel that was lit to celebrate New Year's Eve going in [...]
Nevermore – City Hall
Our latest dive in to Nevermore architecture is this version of Dallas City Hall. It stood for a little more than 20 years [...]
Nevermore – St. Paul’s Sanitarium
Adding to our pile of nevermore buildings, here is a beauty! This is St. Paul's Sanitarium - this building is so delightful it [...]
H.H. Holmes and Dallas, part II
Devil in the White City has been a pet project of Leonardo DiCaprio for a while now. I will let you judge if [...]
Mo’ Busch Money
I got a little flakey with posting there for a while, so your reward is this magnificent Dallas Building! It has a few [...]
Oriental Hotel – Opening Day Oddness
The Opening of the Oriental Hotel – A most unusual speech The Oriental Hotel was a much anticipated, super swanky hotel in (what [...]
The Opening of the Oriental Hotel
Thomas Field’s dream, the Oriental Hotel, opened October 9th, 1893. The night before opening day, every single room in the building, from cellar [...]
Adolphus Busch and Dallas’ Oriental Hotel
Adolphus Busch, investor in the Oriental Hotel As mentioned in our last post, one of Adolphus Busch’s first investments in Dallas was the [...]
Adolphus Busch, Honorary Dallasite: the Investor Chronicles
Adolphus Busch, Honorary Dallasite: the Investor Chronicles So, what did Adolphus do with all of his bags of money made from his un-skunked, [...]
Real Beer, Honorary Dallasite
Honorary Dallasite for a few days, Adolphus Busch – the 21st of 22 children. But don’t worry, his dad was a businessman with his fingers [...]