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Haunting Photos
of the Baker Hotel
Page 2
Mineral Wells, Texas

Photos courtesy of Jason Grant
& The Nostalgic Glass

Baker Hotel Cloud Room, Mineral Wells, Texas

The Cloud Room Interior

Outside the Cloud Room

Hallway accessing spiral staircase leading to bell tower

Baker Hotel 11th floor hallway, Mineral Wells, Texas

The hallway of the 11th floor

Baker Hotel, Mr. Baker's Suite on the 11th floor

Mr. Baker's Suite (11th Floor)

Baker Hotel, Baker suite breakfast toom, Mineral Wells, Texas

Baker Suite breakfast room

Grant is a realist and doesn't entertain false hope or dreams that these structures will all be restored. He sees their decay as a natural, inevitable process and feels that "these palaces give a much more tangible sense of history in their vacant, neglected state than if they were meticulously restored museums."

Text © John Troesser
Photos © Jason Grant www.nostalgicglass.org
October 19, 2005

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About The Baker Hotel

Haunting Photos
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Mineral Wells, Texas

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