Hotel Faust
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Hotel Faust | |
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| Location |
240 S Seguin New Braunfels, Texas |
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| Coordinates | 29°42′5″N 98°7′22.5″W / 29.70139°N 98.122917°WCoordinates: 29°42′5″N 98°7′22.5″W / 29.70139°N 98.122917°W |
| Area | Less than one acre |
| Built | 1929 |
| Architect | Joseph Faust |
| NRHP Reference # | 85000922[1] |
| RTHL # | 1577 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | May 2, 1985 |
| Designated RTHL | 1984 |
The Faust Hotel, once known as the Travelers Hotel, was completed in 1929 and is located in New Braunfels, Texas. The hotel planning was started by a group of citizen desiring to attract tourist and convention traffic to counter a downturn in agricultural business caused by a mid-1920s drought in the area. Built on donated land from Senator Joseph Faust's estate, the hotel was renamed in 1936 in honor that family. The building is a four-story masonry design of no particular architectural style, though with some Spanish Renaissance Revival detailing. [2]
It has been renovated several times through the years, but is one of the few known Texas mid-rise hotels of its era still serving as a hotel.[2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.[1]
Notes
- 1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
- 1 2 "Texas Historical Commission Historic Sites Atlas: Hotel Faust". Retrieved October 8, 2014.