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Preservation
Crosbyton's
Prairie Ladies Inn
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Berkshire
Street showing Lamar Building and Lowrie Drugs
1950s Postcard courtesy rootsweb.com/ %7Etxpstcrd/ |
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Lowrie
Drugs Interior
Vintage photo courtesy Margot Hardin & City of Crosbyton |
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Then...
This building, which has been declared a Texas historic landmark was
originally The Crosbyton Inn (1908), the area's first hotel.
The two-story frame building burned in 1912 and the hotel was rebuilt
over the old basement, however, this building was demolished in the
mid-1920s. In 1926 the current brick building was constructed by E.
H. Hendricks. The building was bought during WWII by local businessman
(and son of a Crosby County pioneer) W. P. Lamar and was renamed the
Lamar Building. Lowrie Drugs was the downstairs tenant while
the upper floor housed doctor's offices and apartments. |
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Building
under renovation
Photo courtesy Margot Hardin & City of Crosbyton, June 2006 |
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Now...
Completion of Phase I (the ground floor) of the Prairie Ladies
Inn will soon be complete. The ground floor will house a old-fashioned
soda fountain / sandwitch shop, a bus terminal, visitor's center and
and a transportation museum (a permanent exhibit from the Smithsonian
Institution). This Crosbyton
landmark will also house chamber offices and a conference room. Each
of the upstairs rooms (renovated as phase II) will honor a Panhandle
matriarch - hence the name Prairie Ladies Inn. The restoration was
made possible by grants totaling $473,000.
Our thanks to Margot Hardin of Crosbyton's city hall for supplying
the current photo and information.
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