Hotel Faust

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Hotel Faust
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark
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Hotel Faust in 2012
Hotel Faust is located in Texas
Hotel Faust
Hotel Faust
Location240 S. Seguin St.,
New Braunfels, Texas
Coordinates29°42′36″N 98°7′25″W / 29.71000°N 98.12361°W / 29.71000; -98.12361Coordinates: 29°42′36″N 98°7′25″W / 29.71000°N 98.12361°W / 29.71000; -98.12361
Arealess than one acre
Built1929 (1929)
Built byWalter Sipple
ArchitectHenry Partridge Smith
NRHP reference No.85000922[1]
RTHL No.1577
Significant dates
Added to NRHPMay 2, 1985
Designated RTHL1984

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 citizens 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]

See also[]

  • National Register of Historic Places listings in Comal County, Texas
  • Recorded Texas Historic Landmarks in Comal County

References[]

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ a b "Texas Historical Commission Historic Sites Atlas: Hotel Faust". Retrieved October 8, 2014.

External links[]

Media related to Hotel Faust at Wikimedia Commons

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